New Antispam mod, please report any issue

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wololo
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New Antispam mod, please report any issue

Post by wololo »

I've just installed an antispam mechanism on this forum. As you know, the Wagic forums have been plagued by spam bots lately, to a point where we had to moderate everybody's comments, which didn't scale.

This system is pretty aggressive at rejecting bots registrations or posts, but it also catches a few false alarms once in a while, so if you run into issues posting or registering, please PM me or email me (wagic.the.homebrew@gmail.com)
Zethfox
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Re: New Antispam mod, please report any issue

Post by Zethfox »

arghh. how did this spam crepes even start happening to us? did we *** someone off?
wololo
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Re: New Antispam mod, please report any issue

Post by wololo »

Basically the site's popularity keeps growing, and I think we got added to some spam tool's database. My full analysis of the situation here:
http://wololo.net/2012/12/06/the-battle ... -spammers/
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