New members, introduce yourself

[Ikku]

At first I wasn't noticing any improvement, but today everything's clean as a whistle. Hope we can still get new members though, scarf's got a point

[weedguru_animal]

My first aim was to halt the advance of the spamsperm. Now I am onto making things more secure. The bulk of the problem can be eradicated by updating the board to the latest phpbb version which has much more modern anti spam counermeasures than our present installation. As JTP mentioned...or someone else...our captcha settings are outdated and the vast majority of modern spambots will bypass it with ease. I am presently making a backup of the site, and will venture onwards into updating the board. Its not as simple as it could be, due to the MODS installed, but I am pondering simply making a new clean fresh installation, copying all essential data over, then working through the main MODS over the following weeks. As always...bear with me, people.

[JTP]

That won't stop spammers because bots are usually configured for the new releases as well. First thing I always did when a new version came out was update my bot to support it (I sold a forum spammer for a short period of time). You have to make your version unique to be "secure." No one is going to update their bot just to spam this site.

No matter what you do, there will ALWAYS be a way to get around it. If the browser can read the site, any app can.

[andriaSRH]

yep my vote is to send the files to JTP and then have him edit and send them back...
If its going to help this bloody spam problem then do it...


ps i would be pissed as a new user if i registered and couldnt get access to the boards straight away...
i wouldnt be able to see the point of it... even though on our side i completely understand

This

If I was high (haha "if"), happened upon the site, saw something I wanted to reply to quickly, but couldn't...because I had to wait for a mod to say it was cool, I'd be pretty upset. Especially with the lack uberactive mods...the new users would have to wait for at least a couple hours.

Not bashing the idea really, if it helps it helps ...gotta be optimistic and junk.

Just looked at the new posts and there is spam. So yea. ....

*backs slowly out of the thread*

[wgToonces]

I'm on here all the time deleting shit.

And I think he meant it is only him (Animal) who can say it's cool to post now. Would be better if all the mods had that power because obviously Dan isn't on 24/7.

[andriaSRH]

That would make alot more sense, indeed.

[weedguru_animal]

Well the huge amount of spam has stopped...i am checking twice daily at the newly registered users list, and i am aiming, perhaps this weekend, to allow the mods to also activatenew members. Perhaps, if time permits, i can also update the phpbb code.

[TmD]

Sounds like good news mate

[weedguru_animal]

I am happy to make the easiest route to updating the phpbb code, but we will lose all previous karma notes and values. How much of a bane will this be to member???? I ask you fiends?

[JTP]

It's just a number. I'd say do what you've got to do, but isn't karma stored in the SQL DB?

[andriaSRH]

I am happy to make the easiest route to updating the phpbb code, but we will lose all previous karma notes and values. How much of a bane will this be to member???? I ask you fiends?

HELL TO THE NO.

<~~~

[wgToonces]

Poll?

[TmD]

i barely have karma so lets do it!

[Weedguru Higher]

Weedguru is like Walmart, is infamous for it's Rollbacks

[SpRi7e]

I get paid like £60 a week for my job, and i don't want to blow it all on booze. Well, just yet. I made a deal that every time i get paid, i would go out and buy a collection of somekind, and i decided i would buy a piece of unifrom from like a nazi. When i have all the equipment and uniform of a second world war nazi, i will then buy alcohol. The only difference is, i will be the only one getting drunk in a nazi outfit xD

why the nazi uniform?..