View Full Version : Anyway to keep the rs scammers from getting memberships.
The rs scammers are becoming a problem here. I don't know how they operate but there should be some way to keep them from becoming members.
Maybe do like a lot of the other forums are doing. In order to sign up you have to type in a series of numbers or letters seen as a distorted or jumbled picture.
Can anything be done?
It's pointless, from my experience humans sign up for such accounts and so via webbased proxies (see proxy.org). Then randomly after a period of time a bot access the account and spams 7 threads with phishing links.
A viable solution would be thread content recognition or moderate new posts. However, the latter requires a lot of moderators.
Hey Wally you ever thought of becoming a mod yourself ??
Since it works by hiding links under false text and the links need to be clicked is there any way to disable posting unless the links are coded.
Hey Wally you ever thought of becoming a mod yourself ??
I have always been curious what all is involved on the moderators side of the forum. Skills required and such.
I have always been curious what all is involved on the moderators side of the forum. Skills required and such.[/QUOTE]
Wally as you seem to be a dedicated member of this forum maybe you should send "jazzi" a pm and ask him what's involved as i know he is looking for a couple of new mod's.
The rs scammers are becoming a problem here. I don't know how they operate but there should be some way to keep them from becoming members.
Maybe do like a lot of the other forums are doing. In order to sign up you have to type in a series of numbers or letters seen as a distorted or jumbled picture.
Contrary to popular belief Captcha codes don't actually work. They're stupidly easy to bypass with reverse OCR methods. Making one too hard to crack means it's almost impossible for genuine members to figure out what it says!
I'm pretty sure the banned hosts filter is doing it's part to help - but it would take me less than an hour to set up both a link masking site and an RS phishing one. I could stick them on a random domain that's not being looked for and kaboom goes our filter.
A viable solution would be thread content recognition or moderate new posts. However, the latter requires a lot of moderators.
We'd need a much bigger mod team to moderate every post - plus that kinda takes the spontaneity out of the whole forum thing!!
Since it works by hiding links under false text and the links need to be clicked is there any way to disable posting unless the links are coded.
Possible, yes. But practical? Probably not... Having links "fixed" in that manner would prevent people from using inline linking (things like this (http://www.google.com)) - the rule set for this kind of hack would be extremely complex, and the more complex something is the more likely it is to have a weakness.
I have always been curious what all is involved on the moderators side of the forum. Skills required and such.
There's a great blog post here (http://www.communityspark.com/the-real-purpose-of-forum-moderators-revealed/) that pretty much matches my own ideals. I've been looking among the site's Elite members, but I may be willing to make an exception... PM me and let me know what you think. :)
as for the "rs-fishing".... at least all non-Mac-users are "entitled" to do the mouse-hovering to check the "real link".
Does the Mac not do this too - I thought the Mac Firefox ran on the same codebase as it's PC counterpart, or are you using Safari?
no, can´t afford a decent Mac..,. ;)
those i know told me mouse-hover doesn´t work on MacOS
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