Pantsing and Stripping Forums

Sorry everyone, I guess Google decided to migrate the reCAPCHA function and for some reason it had to be done manually, but hopefully it's done now.

Guys,

Watch out! he/she is posting under my name, but with a dot at the end. That is not me!!!

It's odd isn't it, since that suggests an element ...

Well I guess I deleted over a thousand posts past week(s) so I keep going.
But I truly hope things will work soon, so we can enjoy our board as we used to do.

Steps that could be implemented.

Close new registration for 1-2 weeks.

New members can't post for 1 week. (could just be a few days)

New members have to like 5 posts (could be 10, 15, 20) before they can post.

Daily post limit, or hourly limit.

These are a bit extreme, and not brilliant, but i ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 agree, but unfortunately that’s not in my rights. So we need Viradae for that, and it’s their decision how to handle that.

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 ...

Enable some form of questions/answer based thing during the sign up process. Add about 5-10 different questions to this and change the pool semi-regularly. Bonus if one of the questions is "not politically correct" which may prevent the AI from being able to answer it. For example, any references ...