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| Posted on 2012-02-12 05:38:45 PM |
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Some sites delay the email for 5 minutes after registration. Perhaps that'd be a good tactic to impliment.
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| Posted on 2012-02-17 02:14:43 AM |
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Originally posted by marioVSshadowSome sites delay the email for 5 minutes after registration. Perhaps that'd be a good tactic to impliment.
That'll just be annoying. New users, after activating, should just be limited to 10 posts. New users usually register to ask a question and 10 posts seems like a good limit to start them off. Once they reach, say, 50, then the limit should be lifted.
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| Posted on 2012-02-17 03:36:59 AM |
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Actually they use that tactic on the minecraft forums and it's surprisingly effective. I second that.
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| Posted on 2012-02-17 08:05:40 AM |
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Okay so then the guy makes ten spam posts and then makes a new account to pass the limit.
Very effective.
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| Posted on 2012-02-17 08:07:02 AM |
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How often do we get spammers?
How much damage do they do before they're permabanned?
I don't think anything else needs to be done - staff seem to be handling the "invasion" just fine. Plus, he's running out of proxies.
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| Posted on 2012-02-17 01:53:22 PM |
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Originally posted by leodOkay so then the guy makes ten spam posts and then makes a new account to pass the limit.
Very effective.
I was thinking the same thing. Besides, most spammers are discovered/banned as soon as they first post. So the post limit really has no purpose for stopping spam.
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| Posted on 2012-02-17 05:11:10 PM |
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Actually, the spammer just got a new proxy.
I think there should be 2 threads, one about the spammers, and another about email verification, so that both topics won't be squished together.
Anybody agree?
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| Posted on 2012-02-17 09:44:34 PM |
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Originally posted by lugi-mario2563
Yeah, we know, hence why he's banned 
Originally posted by lugi-mario2563I think there should be 2 threads, one about the spammers, and another about email verification, so that both topics won't be squished together.
Anybody agree?
They're similar enough to keep in the same topic.
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| Posted on 2012-02-18 12:05:10 PM |
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You realise he's just helping us, right? This way we've banned more proxies, and nobody else'll be able to re-reg later.
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| Posted on 2012-02-18 12:45:00 PM |
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There are more proxies than anyone could possibly ban.
We've talked about using a HTTP query to ban/stop registration for anyone using a proxy. Might go into effect, who knows.
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| Last edited on 2012-02-18 12:45:14 PM by Maxx. |
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| Posted on 2012-02-18 06:36:38 PM |
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Originally posted by MaxxWe've talked about using a HTTP query to ban/stop registration for anyone using a proxy. Might go into effect, who knows.
I'm super against this since, as I've said before, I'm forced to use a proxy because the government in my country doesn't like us. I really don't want my enjoyment of this site to be detrimented (?) because people jump to drastic measures right away.
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| Posted on 2012-02-19 04:40:41 AM |
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Originally posted by BlumiereThat'll just be annoying. New users, after activating, should just be limited to 10 posts. New users usually register to ask a question and 10 posts seems like a good limit to start them off. Once they reach, say, 50, then the limit should be lifted.
This idea eats at me. In theory it shouldn't take 10 posts to solve any beginner problem, 3 to 4 if you started the thread (1 for posting the question, 1 - 2 to enlighten anyone who offered help as to how their advice went if it did not solve the problem, and 1 to thank anyone who helped and reveal that the problem has been solved) and if you encounter two or three problems then chances are they have been answered somewhere and can be found with a little digging, but one of your initial posts as a new user would be eaten up by an introduction, and then (if you are the person I'm describing) you'd be left with five. Now 5 should be enough for anyone who isn't chatty or social, but if you wanted to jump into the community and maybe enter yourself in a forum game(Which can eat your posts right up depending on what they are and when you do so), make a post in WoI, and maybe get caught up in a talk topic, you may easily exceed your limit. Now I'd think it would be frustrating to have to wait a day to say something, or to be forced to rely on the PM system to convey something that one would like to say in public, and this idea may deter more than spammers from returning to the site.
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