[lycier]

Today pawan51 posted 200 spam in total in a few hours,and dyaramji posted 6 spam.
Really don't have a way to stop?

[barmar]

32519, on 2014-April-01, 02:12, said:

You need the computer geeks to pick up the IP address of the spammers, and then block it. Problem solved.

He keeps changing his IP, too. He's probably either using proxies or hijacked PCs.

We've decided to throw in the towel and shut down the forums. We'll be migrating all the content over to Bridge Losers.

Spoiler

April Fool!

[Fluffy]

So how did you do it in the end?

[barmar]

We added a check that the account is at least N days old and has had at least N BBO logins.

This does mean that a new player won't be able to post requests for help in the forum. They can send email to support instead.

[Antrax]

Maybe restrict posting for forums besides the BBO support forum?

[lycier]

barmar, on 2014-April-07, 09:33, said:

We added a check that the account is at least N days old and has had at least N BBO logins.

This does mean that a new player won't be able to post requests for help in the forum. They can send email to support instead.

If this is the bbo official decision, I want to discuss with you.
1- May I request the exception are chinese forums and BBO Juniors(temporary),nowadays many chinese players never open bbf,and I had provided bbf links to my Taiwan and Moscow friends,they told me they can't open bbf even though they rarely care about bbf.
2- Spam happened mainly on "English" bbf,maybe it make no sense on chinese forums.
3- This advantage is to help chinese players and school students as far as possible.

Would you please consider.
Thank you.

[barmar]

We're blocking at login time, so it doesn't know what forum you're planning on going to. The forum software provides a hook to allow us to provide our own login authentication method -- that's how we allow users to use their regular BBO username and password. But once they're logged in, all privileges are based on the forum user groups (Members, Advanced Members, etc.), there doesn't seem to be a way to make this look at an external database.

[Antrax]

barmar, on 2014-April-09, 09:15, said:

once they're logged in, all privileges are based on the forum user groups

Is it possible to assign users with less than N BBO logins / K days to a different user group that only has permissions for some of the forums?

[barmar]

Antrax, on 2014-April-09, 21:48, said:

Is it possible to assign users with less than N BBO logins / K days to a different user group that only has permissions for some of the forums?

We can do this based on forum logins or days since forum registration, but not based on BBO logins as far as I can tell. Another available option for this group is to limit the number of posts per day. I'm trying to come up with the best setting.

[Fluffy]

But if I want to get black magic assistance, who'd you gnna call?

[diana_eva]

Fluffy, on 2014-April-16, 09:08, said:

But if I want to get black magic assistance, who'd you gnna call?

well... I know some people in Romania

[gwnn]

diana_eva, on 2014-April-16, 09:15, said:

well... I know some people in Romania

(it's sometimes frustrating not to be able to upvote yellows!)