We are temporarily closed to New members

[Dub13]

Over the last week or so we have been targeted by spammers trying to make accounts,thankfully none have got through my net and were able to post.But its a pain having to go through them all (about 100 new accounts per day).

So I am closing the site to new members while I look into improving the registration system so I can maybe filter more of them out even before they register.

Dub13

[liverirish]

Thats great work and very annoying for you to have to deal with all that crap. Just so I know, what is a spammer??? Im not that technical yet, sorry guys.

[Dub13]

Thats great work and very annoying for you to have to deal with all that crap. Just so I know, what is a spammer??? Im not that technical yet, sorry guys.

Its basically a computer program setup to register new accounts on sites,then post a link to porn or whatever.They get paid per click.

[graham]

An enter caption facility should solve your problems

[MrsPepe]

Captcha?

[graham]

Captcha?

That's the one.
Prize goes to the Galway girl

[Dub13]

An enter caption facility should solve your problems


Have one already,I actually think its Captcha.

[trucker]

Paul how about you can only join if a member recommends you, might sort it out

[Dub13]

Paul how about you can only join if a member recommends you, might sort it out


We taught about that before but the feeling was it would lock out to many people.I will sort this when I have the time to go through it proper.

[trucker]

We taught about that before but the feeling was it would lock out to many people.I will sort this when I have the time to go through it proper.

We'd be like the masons, could have secret meetings, sacrafice virgins etc, it would be great Craic, Dan Brown type shit

[graham]

Paul how about you can only join if a member recommends you, might sort it out

I'd be worried to recommend someone in case they turn out to be a wum.
You never know when some people let lose on the Internet

[Rover 609]

We'd be like the masons, could have secret meetings, sacrafice virgins etc, it would be great Craic, Dan Brown type shit

I like it!!:cool:

[redabbey]

Paul,

What about a simple question in the sign on process, such as something like this.

'Please tell is in no more than 30 words why you support the reds?'

[Molby Is a Legend]

We'd be like the masons, could have secret meetings, sacrafice virgins etc, it would be great Craic, Dan Brown type shit

If we are voting on this I'm with trucker :D

[Fantana]

We'd be like the masons, could have secret meetings, sacrafice virgins etc, it would be great Craic, Dan Brown type shit

Or The Stonecutters!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fa/HomertheGreat.png/235px-HomertheGreat.png

[Dub13]

Paul,

What about a simple question in the sign on process, such as something like this.

'Please tell is in no more than 30 words why you support the reds?'


The question thing is a option I may try,something simple like how many time have we won the league.I mean if you don't know that you should not be a member of here anyway.

Very simple to implement as well.

[byrnetred]

The question thing is a option I may try,something simple like how many time have we won the league.I mean if you don't know that you should not be a member of here anyway.

Very simple to implement as well.

E-mail approval is prob a good way to go, the person registering would have to click a link from a e-mail that they receive when ty register to complete the registration

[Dub13]

E-mail approval is prob a good way to go, the person registering would have to click a link from a e-mail that they receive when ty register to complete the registration


Have that in place already as part of the current system and still getting over 100 of these ****s a day.

[byrnetred]

Have that in place already as part of the current system and still getting over 100 of these ****s a day.

If there is a obvious theme with the e-mail address maybe manual approval of registrations? If you got a few bodies together it might not be that time consuming

Might be a temp solution till you think of another way

[Captain_Morgan]

Its basically a computer program setup to register new accounts on sites,then post a link to porn or whatever.They get paid per click.

Whats wrong with that ??? :p:D

We'd be like the masons, could have secret meetings, sacrafice virgins etc, it would be great Craic, Dan Brown type shit

Wait til cakes sees this

[justydawson]

There clever lil b*stards with these spam programmes.
I have the same crap on my sites also Paul.

I dont know is there a coding that could combat any well recognised domain name wording (eg @viagra.com)

I'll do some searching about.

[bobby benitez]

.tv and most other premier league sites have a kind of outside page with "enter here", I presume this is to stop spammers, hackers etc. I'm no techie but there could be something in that.

[padski08]

Its basically a computer program setup to register new accounts on sites,then post a link to porn or whatever.They get paid per click.

PM please :D

[Dub13]

I got a spare hour or two today in work and I think I have this sorted now,so we are back open.