peterabnny wrote:Can you lock the forums down temporarily to all but actual CGers until you get a handle on the spam problem? There can't be that many of us left. I should think that as long as you post an announcement as to what you're doing and why any potential new members should understand and will check back later to see if they can come on board. As it is right now, every single topic thread on my screen except one or two has been spammed.
peterabnny wrote:Can you lock the forums down temporarily to all but actual CGers until you get a handle on the spam problem? There can't be that many of us left. I should think that as long as you post an announcement as to what you're doing and why any potential new members should understand and will check back later to see if they can come on board. As it is right now, every single topic thread on my screen except one or two has been spammed.
McDuffies wrote:peterabnny wrote:Can you lock the forums down temporarily to all but actual CGers until you get a handle on the spam problem? There can't be that many of us left. I should think that as long as you post an announcement as to what you're doing and why any potential new members should understand and will check back later to see if they can come on board. As it is right now, every single topic thread on my screen except one or two has been spammed.
I can't really do anything.
peterabnny wrote:McDuffies wrote:peterabnny wrote:Can you lock the forums down temporarily to all but actual CGers until you get a handle on the spam problem? There can't be that many of us left. I should think that as long as you post an announcement as to what you're doing and why any potential new members should understand and will check back later to see if they can come on board. As it is right now, every single topic thread on my screen except one or two has been spammed.
I can't really do anything.
Well, you can suggest it to the appropriate person, can you not?
Kisai wrote:More to the point, there's so many forums that the maintenance utilities that phpBB has simply timeout. so trying to bulk delete things just errors out a lot.
MYSQL wrote:delete FROM lolforums_posts where poster_id NOT IN (Select user_id from lolforums_users);
Query OK, 21098 rows affected (1 hour 16 min 25.10 sec)
Terotrous wrote:Do we have one of those Captcha things? I thought those were fairly hard for a machine to break.
In any case, I still figure we can't be the only forum that's had to deal with this. There's got to be some way to stop this kind of nonsense.
Bustertheclown wrote:How is staying and hoping while things get progressively worse not also a death sentence? I can't imagine that spammers are going to follow us to a completely different board system, when the exploits are obviously here in the phpBB, which doesn't seem to have upgraded in five years.
IVstudios wrote:Aeridus suggested some simple plugins that might help. Though they might fall under the "things that break when the forum is updated" heading. Though Aeridus didn't mention having any problems with them.
Kisai wrote:If people want to volunteer to help control spam, please do, otherwise, we have make do.
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