Alot of SPAM lately on this forum!

Mykle1 · Jun 14, 2017, 11:37 AM

I was here last night for the onslaught. It was horrible. I was fully armed and wanted to nuke the bastards! :-)

cowboysdude · Jun 15, 2017, 12:43 AM

Don’t they have a captcha system?

d3r · Jun 17, 2017, 1:27 AM

It’s seems to be getting worse. I just signed in and I see about 20 of them in recent posts. Can something be done?
Maybe prevent posts with Chinese characters from being instantly posted since most of the spam are not in English.

d3r · Jun 17, 2017, 1:32 AM

Or make new posters go through a 5 post vetting process where their posts would need to be reviewed before being made public.
Not sure how the logistics would work since the mods would still need to review a lot of posts.

Cato · Jun 17, 2017, 7:20 AM

Moderation is probably too much work and makes the forum less instant.

I wouldn’t mind to click a CAPTCHA every time I post something. But I guess the problem is support for such feature on the forum software…?

rudibarani · Jun 17, 2017, 10:15 AM

I would suggest to force a captacha for the first XX number of posts of a user. Once the user seems credible, you can most certainly leave it out for this person.

cowboysdude · Jun 17, 2017, 12:22 PM

Not too sure either but it needed to be addressed after the 1st time it happened.

THIS has been a problem for others running NodeBB. Here’s an answer:

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/3036/spam-control-options/2

Mykle1 · Jun 17, 2017, 11:21 PM

nodebb-plugin-spam-be-gone

Spam Be Gone 0.4.x uses Google’s “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA” which does not support the old public/private keys, so you need to generate new ones and replace the old ones in your NodeBB Admin Panel, or you will see an error instead of the captcha image, visit this page to do so: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin#list

paviro · Jun 19, 2017, 7:14 AM

We already used nodebb-plugin-spam-be-gone for Googles reCAPTCHA but that did not help as it seems…

I enabled Akismet again (disabled because it stopped some people from posting legit stuff). It should prevent most of the SPAM for now but some people might run into issues, let me know if you do!

Email verification was already enabled but I will check whether it really works.

yawns · Jun 19, 2017, 8:36 AM

@paviro said in Alot of SPAM lately on this forum!:

Email verification was already enabled but I will check whether it really works.

It was enabled, but not mandatory. I created @yawns-test, did not verify the account via email but was able to post on the forum.