Massive Spambot invasion 4/16/2016

[sakurasan]

--Discard--

[ClocktowerEchos]

@sakurasanUnfortunately we cannot do anything unless the Mod Saints hath awoken. Even then there is a dedicated place for such matters and the Mod Saints have already requested that we do not do any more as salvation cometh.

Mahz Vult

[sakurasan]

@ClocktowerEchos Oh really? Oops~ My bad xD I'll stop spamming this forum then. >>

EDIT: Pft. Just read the update on the freaking first post XD Now I feel dumb.

[Mahz]

Jesus christ. These spambots.

Finishing up the nuke button, but once I deploy it I'll have to immediately start working on a real rate-limit. Something severe in the short-term, like at least requiring newbies to create a Newbie Introduction thread first.

[VKAllen]

Jesus christ. These spambots.

Finishing up the nuke button, but once I deploy it I'll have to immediately start working on a real rate-limit. Something severe in the short-term, like at least requiring newbies to create a Newbie Introduction thread first.

@Mahz

Queue the "One Winged Angel"?

Play the Drama Button??

[Mahz]

I should've done this yesterday, but I disabled registration til we sort out the spambot problem.

[Aktoria]

Is trying to go to my PM inbox giving me a 'Internal Server Error' a side effect?

[kittyluna45]

Is trying to go to my PM inbox giving me a 'Internal Server Error' a side effect?

@Aktoria

What this person said.

[Lmpkio]

Lord Mahz has spoken! It's alright though, as long as we don't have any bots, it's alllll cool.

[tobiax]

Is trying to go to my PM inbox giving me a 'Internal Server Error' a side effect?

@Aktoria

I also have that problem. Also, is this the only place the human test can happen? Either way, kind of a moot point personally. Because it's still asking for it on other threads. But I understand if older threads can't be sanctified as easily.
Hail Mahz and all that.

[Lmpkio]

I think we all have that problem due to the Human-Robot test. Either way, this should be sorted out soon.

[Mahz]

Okay, let me look into the PM system errors.

Edit: Should be fixed now.

[ClocktowerEchos]

I should've done this yesterday, but I disabled registration til we sort out the spambot problem.

@Mahz

THE LORD ADMIN HATH SPOKEN
\[+]/

Seriously though, is there anyway to check to see if the email for the user is something from a serious email service (ie Google, Yahoo, etc?) instead of a temporary email account?

[tobiax]

I think we all have that problem due to the Human-Robot test. Either way, this should be sorted out soon.

@Lmpkio

I must have pulled up the page pre-implementation. It's all good now.

[Mahz]

Oh yeah, another issue is that the forum views will appear blank. The spam is so bad that you have to go back a few pages to see topics.

I'll be fixing that as well.

What a nightmare.

[Aktoria]

I could go through the effort of editing this video and plastering things like the PMs button over Gandalf's face, but I thought instead I would just describe it.

Gandalf = Our Inbox after being assaulted by the spammers

Frodo = Us

Boromir = Mahz?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DtLl8F7QJ4

[Mahz]

The PM dashboard should work again.

I'm now looking into fixing the forum views (the list of topics in each forum).

[Shienvien]

Something severe in the short-term, like at least requiring newbies to create a Newbie Introduction thread first.

@Mahz

Would "I don't do introduction threads. This thread will be ignored from now onwards." constitute for a passable introduction thread?
Seriously, though, I don't think it's a restriction that should stay around, as much as I know there exist (and I have invited onto the site) people whom I know could have proper panic attacks from something as simple as making an introduction thread just anyone can reply to. Does not mean they're bad writers or roleplayers, or should be denied the ability to roleplay with friends.

PMs appear to be back now, though, for all that's worth.

[Mahz]

<Snipped quote by Mahz> Would "I don't do introduction threads. This thread will be ignored from now onwards." constitute for a passable introduction thread?
Seriously, though, I don't think it's a restriction that should stay around, as much as I know there exist (and I have invited onto the site) people whom I know could have proper panic attacks from something as simple as making an introduction thread just anyone can reply to. Does not mean they're bad writers or roleplayers, or should be denied the ability to roleplay with friends.

PMs appear to be back now, though, for all that's worth.

@Shienvien

Yeah, you're right. I was trying to come up with the simplest solution but that one's really not going to work.

I'll think of something better.

Also, I should turn off the recaptcha system now.

[ClocktowerEchos]

@MahzWould there be a method of automatically "muting" someone if they keep making the same post X number of times? I think that might actually work okay-ish.