Spam

DaFin · July 17 2017 at 3:53PM

Many asiatic spam.

Deep clean and strong captchas needed.

horst_s_2 · July 18 2017 at 9:37AM

Sorry about that. Last time our captcha was too weak and we changed to the one of Google. That worked fine for several months now. And now this Chinese attack ...

We stopped new registrations and cleaned the mess up.

We need more protection than a typical captcha. We are in the process of discussing this.

bedlamborn · July 20 2017 at 7:08PM

@horst_s

Thanks for your effort. It was impossible to use the forum for a while.

kroman · November 8 2017 at 11:59AM

Perhaps this could be solved by having a moderator review a member's first post. If the moderator decides the post is malicious in nature, he will reject it and ban the member. If the post is not malicious, he/she will accept it and now the user is free to post whatever they want. the only downside is that the member will not have any publicly viewable posts until the moderator approves it; a small price to pay in my opinion.

horst_s_2 · January 2 2018 at 8:30AM

@kroman It was easier than your suggestion.

Spammer typically try to flood a forum to become visible. And we now get a message, when too many posts come in. We then are able to delete them with just one mouse click. For now - it works.

kroman · January 22 2018 at 4:34PM

@horst_s

horst_s said:

@kroman It was easier than your suggestion...

It appears that you might be mistaken!

You have put so much time and care into producing a great resource for whisky lovers...it is a shame that every couple of weeks, we get slammed with spammers.

Again, I recommend that someone be authorized to moderate a user's FIRST POST. I will be more than happy to do that if you want, just PM me.