Autoposter Connection

[Perl]

How to stop autoposters from posting in my forum

I use IPB 3.1.4

Is there a way to ban autoposter from posting ?

If there are no ways is there a way to limit autoposter connections to say 2 or 3 every hour ??

Can anyone help as everyday on some particular time my forum goes offline due to too much mysql load ( autoposters raping my forum )

Any help is highly appreciated

Perl Reviewed by Perl on 13th Aug 2011. Autoposter Connection How to stop autoposters from posting in my forum I use IPB 3.1.4 Is there a way to ban autoposter from posting ? If there are no ways is there a way to limit autoposter connections to say 2 or 3 every hour ?? Can anyone help as everyday on some particular time my forum goes offline due to too much mysql load ( autoposters raping my forum ) Rating: 5

[upnorth]

The short answer on that is sorry to say...no! As long people are able to register and post on your forum you will never be able to automatic fully stop either autoposters, spammers and scammers etc.

Im not sure how much of the previous advices/tips and hints you actually tested and what was the outcome from that. Example: http://www.besthostingforums.com/showthread.php?t=89443

Checking logs are also something you should start with if you havent already because that might give you a better view where this autoposters comes from. If its for example from the country Vietnam you might be forced to start IPban a big amount of IP range from there or even the whole country in the worst case.

Another advice/tip is that if you have normal active users that seam to interact with your forum and report, reply and general help out you should start consider make those people moderators as that will be a automatic help for yourself and you can start concentrate more on other things. You can also try to ask for help by making a staff request post here: http://www.besthostingforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=23

Good luck...

Btw I sent you a pm.


/UpNorth

[illuminated]

Set a maximum of post for x hours (group setting)
Upgrade to 3.2.1
Set a question at registration page that's hard for a bot to understand. (change question for example once a week) if failing they cant register.
Make a second question, math question or something.
Approve new accounts via admin cp only.

and so on....

[robert420]

Depending on the forum software you're using you can try finding an addon that makes user enter a captcha code before submitting a post.

[Gavo]

I made a custom captcha page to slow them down at least.

And a mod that sets a minimum time between loading the posting page and then posting, again it doesn't stop them all but stops them hammering the server.

[NewEraCracker]

Do you want to block them or just limit them?
I have ideas for both types. Reply and I'll help.

[Gavo]

I made the mod thinking jay wouldn't bother with it as its custom mods for one forum, but he made a bypass quickly

At least it makes bots wait between posting instead of hammering the server

[ms7]

you could limit the number of threads a user can make between 6, or 10 or 24 hours, like warezforum.info and cyberwarez have, and then problem will be solved easy ..

[viper3773]

I made the mod thinking jay wouldn't bother with it as its custom mods for one forum, but he made a bypass quickly

At least it makes bots wait between posting instead of hammering the server

jay cracked your captcha mod just like that?


& what do you mean it "makes them wait"

I'm interested as I run a IPB site myself!

[p2p4ever]

why not block that user agent? or IP ban the user making posts constantly

for example just take a link of the suspected user a search in google, if you get similiar links at 25+ sites ,then BAN!