autoposters and recent fico release

[jayfella]

Could you code this mod for vbulletin 3.8.x by any chance?

As certain things become "commonplace" they get implemented into applications pretty quickly to overcome them. Whilst gavo's protection isnt implemented in my autoposter yet, as i said, if more people do it, then its only a matter of time. Bottom line is you cannot stop it. It takes more time for the administrator to implement than it does for me to overcome.

Having said that, I don't condone spam or abuse. I did at one point refuse to add a reply feature specifically because people would use it to bump topics and wreck forums. Other applications got released that had the ability to reply and thus I was forced to add it myself. I could enforce "anti-abuse" routines, but again, other applications wont, and thus gain popularity as a result.

The best thing to do is create a public list of IP addresses that abuse these applications, or even better, take note of something IPB implemented and maybe a good coder can create something similar:

IPB has an anti-spam routine that, upon sign-up, checks email addresses, usernames, etc.. with a database. Each entry in the database has a "level" assigned to it based on the amount of times that particular entry has been "reported". The user is then either auto-banned or if "semi-bad" required to be validated by an administrator.
It removes the wide majority of spammers. Nothing is perfect, but it does seem to be the best way to apply an anti-spam system.

The creator of this setup could charge as little as $1 a month to allow access to its anti-spam database, and everyone is a winner. Thousands of people would most likely make use of it, and not only the warez scene.

jayfella Reviewed by jayfella on 16th Nov 2011. autoposters and recent fico release If you use true autoposter what are you thoughts about latest fico releases in Xvid? Especially if you post to freshwap, bayw and tehParadox. :) Amusing? I think they did it on purpose ... to laugh at autoposters get banned :) Rating: 5

[bxflow]

As certain things become "commonplace" they get implemented into applications pretty quickly to overcome them. Whilst gavo's protection isnt implemented in my autoposter yet, as i said, if more people do it, then its only a matter of time. Bottom line is you cannot stop it. It takes more time for the administrator to implement than it does for me to overcome.

Having said that, I don't condone spam or abuse. I did at one point refuse to add a reply feature specifically because people would use it to bump topics and wreck forums. Other applications got released that had the ability to reply and thus I was forced to add it myself. I could enforce "anti-abuse" routines, but again, other applications wont, and thus gain popularity as a result.

The best thing to do is create a public list of IP addresses that abuse these applications, or even better, take note of something IPB implemented and maybe a good coder can create something similar:

IPB has an anti-spam routine that, upon sign-up, checks email addresses, usernames, etc.. with a database. Each entry in the database has a "level" assigned to it based on the amount of times that particular entry has been "reported". The user is then either auto-banned or if "semi-bad" required to be validated by an administrator.
It removes the wide majority of spammers. Nothing is perfect, but it does seem to be the best way to apply an anti-spam system.

The creator of this setup could charge as little as $1 a month to allow access to its anti-spam database, and everyone is a winner. Thousands of people would most likely make use of it, and not only the warez scene.

In you are eyes what does it take fir someone with an autoposter to be considered a spammer by you? Fake dvdrips? 100 of posts in 3 minutes?