Bot attack
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@bentael said:
@a_5mith @meetdilip
what about Q&A? how is that related to an anti-spam plugin?@meetdilip
the spam-be-gone plugin uses the following:- Honeypot Project: To check user's IP at registration time. At the moment, we only submit the IP, because @julianlam 's node module only supports that.
- Akismet: To check every single user post, this one uses IP, User-Agent, host URL, path to topic, username and the content of the post.
- Google recaptcha: (recently supported) no need to explain that, but that's only used at registration time at the moment.
You can use which ever ones you want or all, so if you're worried about Honeypot, the Captcha option may be enough for you, however, you would need to wait for the NodeBB 0.5.0 for a stable release.
All: The CAPTCHA support works in the latest spam-be-gone plugin v 0.2.0-8 with the NodeBB latest master branch, but it's really targeting the NodeBB 0.5.0 release.
if you want to use NodeBB 0.4.0 <= your version <= 0.4.3, please use the spam-be-gone v0.1.2
Thanks for the insight @bentael. I guess Questions which are difficult for bot to answer are very common and effective these days.
Is there anyway that I can ignore Project Honeypot and use only other services. I use Akismet on my blog. It is very effective for me.
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After installing npm install nodebb-plugin-spam-be-gone , my ACP is not working. I restarted a couple of times using terminal. I can see the plugin under plugins option but whatever button I click on ACP does not work. That include " Restart Nodebb ".
The I tried npm remove nodebb-plugin-spam-be-gone . The cursor kept blinking for say 10 minutes and I closed the terminal to get out of it. Then restarted. Still no luck. Any help ?
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info: [meta/css] Minifying LESS/CSS
info: [sounds] Sounds OK
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info: [themes] Compiling templates
info: [themes] Successfully compiled templates.
info: NodeBB attempting to listen on: 0.0.0.0:80
info: NodeBB Ready
warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-emailer-local] "callbacked" deprecated as of 0.4x. Use asynchronous method instead for hook: filter:admin.header.build
info: [meta/js] Compilation complete
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Just to add my 2 cents, I've been an admin at a bunch of big forums in the past (phpBB); the best spam prevention has been a Q&A "what's the name of this forum" kind of thing in registration. Of course, anybody could easily write a bot to solve that, but I guess the idea is that a good chunk of forum admins can get by with minimal spam prevention measures as the aforementioned.
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I wonder who created this bot program. I would like to thank them first and foremost for having expedite this honeypot / Captcha system, then I would like to tell them fuck you for having me go and delete 100 users manually.
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@trevor said:
I wonder who created this bot program. I would like to thank them first and foremost for having expedite this honeypot / Captcha system, then I would like to tell them fuck you for having me go and delete 100 users manually.
LOL
