Topic: Pun Stops Spam

Does anyone else have an issue with the pun stop spam feature of the forum here?  Sometimes I have to type in 6 or more answers, often the same questions repeatedly before a post will go through.

-Rob A>

Re: Pun Stops Spam

i haven't had to ever enter in the code... this spam thing is inconvenient for everyone unfortunately. Connie has been stellar in banning them, i almost f-d up the forum trying to clean them out and now this. The problem is that they don't stop trying to spam, and we can't ignore them. I wish there was a better way.

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Re: Pun Stops Spam

Rob, when I had to re-type the numbers, it was mostly my fault, typing errors.

Funny enough, I have to enter these small calculations only in the moderator-board ;=) There they don't trust me.

But which browser are you using? Maybe a special plugin is responsible for that or some settings? I have the experience that when I calculate correctly and type in the result correctly, the plugin accepts and let me post
I never encountered that described behaviour

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4 (edited by mvlcek 2011-11-23 16:12:10)

Re: Pun Stops Spam

RobA wrote:

Does anyone else have an issue with the pun stop spam feature of the forum here?  Sometimes I have to type in 6 or more answers, often the same questions repeatedly before a post will go through.

Yes, I also have this problem sometimes. It seems to help to wait for some seconds to submit the second answer - or it's just chance ;-)

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Re: Pun Stops Spam

It happens when I am using Firefox 3.6.18 set to accept no foreign cookies, and I clear all cookies after every session.

I was just wondering if it was just me and my configuration or if others had the same issue....

-Rob A>

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I have the same issue on Chromium browser. Sometimes it is indead around six times I have to enter. Often the questions are the same, so they are allready in my browsing history. Is it not better to use a longer list of questions?

I don't mind it so much, since I only have to do it in the first post of a session.

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I just wonder if am asked to calculate '1+2+1', is '4' or 'four' the correct string to type?

Re: Pun Stops Spam

1) check it out ;=)

2) 1+2+1' = 4
3) one + two + one = four

hihi, Connie ;=)

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Re: Pun Stops Spam

Found this post:

http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … -spam-bot/

Maybe this will work?

Although maybe this is already fixed? didn't seem to have a problem with it last couple of times...

Re: Pun Stops Spam

datiswous wrote:

didn't seem to have a problem with it last couple of times...

not so long ago I couldn't post at all, tried more than 6 times

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11 (edited by shawn_a 2012-02-26 10:21:14)

Re: Pun Stops Spam

Connie wrote:
datiswous wrote:

didn't seem to have a problem with it last couple of times...

not so long ago I couldn't post at all, tried more than 6 times

This happens to me constantly, especially on my ipad which is 10 times more the pita to enter this.
And i usually have to type in all 3 human confirmations in a row.

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This is not an acceptable spam filter. Just an annoyance, its is reputation based at least?

Re: Pun Stops Spam

Think I had this behaviour once, it was indeed annoying. Interestingly enough, I almost always have to deal with the anti-spam stuff when posting to the private team forum, haha.

Re: Pun Stops Spam

If the problem is indeed still there, maybe someone can test the fix I mentioned above...

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had to answer approximately 15 times - new record :-(

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Re: Pun Stops Spam

And whats with the 30 second search limiter even for registered members ?

Re: Pun Stops Spam

And the 60 seconds spam-reporting limit?

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Re: Pun Stops Spam

Since forum is flooded with spam lately, it's about time to something about it.
Luckily fancystopspam has been updated recently: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/post/144686/#p144686
Forum's stopspam questions should be also changed  - 3 same questions for almost 2 yrs are too easy to break.

Btw. a question loop where I have to enter 6 or even 8 times antispam answers occure on firefox. There's no such problem on chrome and afair opera.
Last thing: for long time users (by date or amount of posts) antispam and time restriction could be disabled. Of course if punbb allows such customizing.

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Re: Pun Stops Spam

yojoe wrote:

Since forum is flooded with spam lately, it's about time to something about it.
Luckily fancystopspam has been updated recently: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/post/144686/#p144686
Forum's stopspam questions should be also changed  - 3 same questions for almost 2 yrs are too easy to break.

Btw. a question loop where I have to enter 6 or even 8 times antispam answers occure on firefox. There's no such problem on chrome and afair opera.
Last thing: for long time users (by date or amount of posts) antispam and time restriction could be disabled. Of course if punbb allows such customizing.

add ios safari to that question loop