Pantsing and Stripping Forums

Yes, the forum is nearly unusable at this point
Stopping member creations till we find a solution is necessary imo

Yes, the forum is nearly unusable at this point

This is the worry. The latest assault seems almost personal and vindictive in its scale. Genuine additions / updates to stories and comments get swamped by the crap, with the danger that some get lost or unnoticed and users begin to stop bothering ...

Having ran a phpBB before that got attacked the same way

1. Updating phpBB was VITAL. They specifically target older versions.
2. Setting new accounts to require email approval helped, but not much.
3. Setting new accounts to require admin approval helped, but it caused a lot of work.
4. Adding a ...

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10. Restricting users to a small subset of the forum until they have X number of posts or Y number of days or something similar may help -- the bots will activate and spam those regions instead of the rest of the site.


I like this idea/suggestion, I can't believe that I didn't think to ...

The number 8 suggestion, deleting members who don't post during a period of time...that one would remove many legitimate members.
A large majority of members are lurkers only, and they never post comments or stories. Not sure how much work would be involved in
monitoring members levels of activity ...

I was sick past days, so I couldn’t delete messages. But I saw when no one did something it didn’t increase. So why don’t we all ignore it. Just let the forum go on. It wants attention and if we don’t give it, fun might be over

Possibly there's something in that, since fairly soon after you did ...

I was sick past days, so I couldn’t delete messages. But I saw when no one did something it didn’t increase. So why don’t we all ignore it. Just let the forum go on. It wants attention and if we don’t give it, fun might be over


That's not how this works, they don't care or even know if their ...

Well, one of the new anti-spam countermeasures seems to be working, so at the very least the spammer won't have an easy time getting around it.

I can't believe they got away with all that nudity with minors. I should hire that director to make a movie version of my Stripped By Girls.

Boyd vs Girls
an ENM story by CaughtOfLore

SYNOPSIS: Getting to know his new neighbors, young Boyd is invited to go swimming in their backyard pool. With his swimsuit locked up at home, he politely declines, but the two young girls of the house may just have a way to convince their mother that ...