Spam issue

How about limiting forum members to one new post every 5 minutes, and those with a rep below 500 to one per 30 mins...?

Tom - Just a thought... but to at least mitigate the spamming currently going on, maybe a time restriction on the frequency of posts for users. Like a user can't make new posts more than once per 5-10 min or something like that. Make it both IP and username restricted to catch multiple usernames from the same IP. I doubt any user needs to post a question more often than that and would at least stop the flooding. Any way. good luck and keep up the fight

Train one of them fancy anti spam tools to recognize all those, once they happen, near identical posts

Also a bit drastic but you could confine all non licence holders to one forum for the time being.

Was a small bug in the spam blocking software which I've now fixed, pretty sure this will end it now. Sorry again everyone!

Tom

I dont think anyone expects apologies we all know what a great job you're doing.

Thanks

Ethan quarantine the newbies , and then we question them why they are here and what there plans are..

I just created a topic in the "Completed Creations" sections (topic title: Scott in Space) which is shown in the latest posts display of this section but when I click the title, it says: "The requested topic does not exist". Furthermore, the topic is not listed among the others in the section overview.

Is this spam related or an issue of its own?

Tom no harm done. You don't needs to say sorry. Spammers ####### so and so

I was busy in the last days and didn't checked the Forum very often. But I recognized that I didn't get any mails regarding updates of Construct.

Now I know why: It seems that Micorosoft Exchange Online Protection is banning Scirra Emails due to the spam issue. You should check if you are still on a blacklist or if it was only temporarily.

Sorry guys, cleared up!

What did you do to fix it? I had a forum earlier with a similar issue, and we had to move the forum to another domain/IP altogether.

Gumshoe mainly a list of keywords which if posted auto bans you if you have < n posts and use > y keywords in your post. Don't want to go into too much detail but that's the most effective. Keywords are super specific, if a new spammer comes along I'll just add some more to the list.

Also blocking URLS (even in plaintext) in the message body + subject help.

And CAPTCHA on registration increases the cost to the spammers to sign up each time.