iBotPeaches Posted June 21, 2009 Report Posted June 21, 2009 (edited) Lately there has been a large increase in SPAM, maybe not here but at other much larger sites I've been PM spammed and email bombed by scripts. In order to better protect against that in the long run I've implemented some small changes, that will prevent spammers. Upon registering you will be placed in the "Members" group. That group has had some changes 35 Second Search LimitOnly 1 PM per 5 minutesSignature Editing DisabledUpload Limit 4MB per fileTotal Limit 10MB overallNo display name changesLarger Shoutbox "anti-spam" time10 Downloads per day on "Download" tab Once you hit 1 approved post (SPAM section does NOT count) you will be moved to the usergroup of "Members+" which is essentially the same thing. It has the same color, same user-bar and it is the same group in the legend on the online user list. The benefits of this group just basically lets me trust you, so you get lots more things. Possibly disable word filter (still working on that) 25 Search Limit2 PMs per minuteSignature Editing EnabledUpload Limit of 6MB per fileTotal Limit of 2GB.Display name changes every 365 daysShoutbox "anti-spam" dropped to 4 seconds25 file downloads per day on Download Tab Edited June 21, 2009 by iBotPeaches Fixed grammar
yungbol Posted June 21, 2009 Report Posted June 21, 2009 Cool, can mods "approve" the post in order to put them into the Members+ group?
iBotPeaches Posted June 21, 2009 Author Report Posted June 21, 2009 Its a 15 minute interval to check for people with "more than 1 post, and in usergroup: Members" then they will be moved. In other words, no thats too many posts to moderate.
Dark Slipstream Posted June 21, 2009 Report Posted June 21, 2009 Nice idea, but 1 post is not much of a feat for someone to do lol... Join, make post, then spam. Slows them down by what, 10 seconds? lol
iBotPeaches Posted June 21, 2009 Author Report Posted June 21, 2009 Whoops. VIP has not been fixed yet, its such a long process to do. I'll fix it either tonight or tomorrow morning.
REDSTAR 105 Posted June 22, 2009 Report Posted June 22, 2009 Nice idea, but 1 post is not much of a feat for someone to do lol... Join, make post, then spam. Slows them down by what, 10 seconds? lolYea, thats what i was thinking, maybe we should do 10 approved posts, and then we promote them to a Member+
iBotPeaches Posted June 22, 2009 Author Report Posted June 22, 2009 I don't want to member to have to gain abilities to do basic things. The group was made to prevent mainly PM spam, since a bot isn't programmed to make a post then PM spam.
T3A guy Posted June 23, 2009 Report Posted June 23, 2009 I still can't find where to change my name. Also when you say once a year do you mean that I could change it dec 30 2009 and change it back january 1 2010?
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