The Pub Discussion Board

There is already a CAPTCHA on the registration page, as well as a confirmation email that must be answered.  No, it's not stopping the bots.

Eric Storm

Yeah, the problem with CAPTCHA is that, if you make it hard enough for the bot to not be able to read it, people can't read it, either.

Eric Storm

Yeah, I don't have anyone I'd trust to show up reliably to moderate who isn't already an admin.

I will say this is pushing me to work on the new version of the site... which I guess some of you might consider a good thing.

As to PunBB, I can only assume there's a way to access the "post" script directly, without it checking your permissions.  Otherwise, it shouldn't have been possible.

Eric Storm

Eric Storm wrote:

As to PunBB, I can only assume there's a way to access the "post" script directly, without it checking your permissions.  Otherwise, it shouldn't have been possible.

Eric Storm

yep that what i was thinking it could be as well.
and  if that is right that is one Hell of a Hole in the code.

is there a new PunBB Code out that more is uptodate.
if it is the same Bace code ( but with the Hole Pluged) then with luck updateing it for the main Pub Code could be easy,
so the forum and story part of the webpage still work as one.
them have to be bypassing part of the PHP Code to get at the PHP code for posting as without that
( the only outher way is to Hack the mysql daterbace and add it that way. )

also i did note that i think that last Spam attack was in the form of reply's only no new post's

omg i have just had a killer idea.

Note you can shoot this down as useless if that is what it is. it is just an idea.

i dont know how hard this could be to code But.

You Could Add a Flag system to the Forum.
in witch if a Post is Flag by 3 (or more if you like ) users as spam ( not new members but members you pic and ask if them will do it. )

then apart from the power to say this is Spam there normal membrs with no power by them self's.
if 3 members from this list ( of i say 20 members to be a good number to start ) say this is Spam it will be removed.

Maybe you could have the list be the PRM members
or PRM members who have show them self to be a good forum user.

as i said this is just a idea, you are free to shoot it down or use any part of this idea changing any part the way you like to make it work.

after all Eric, this is your forum.

i just hope this idea give's you a new line of idea's to play from to beet the spam.

I have found no freeware forum system that is actually designed to exist "inside" another website.  I haven't found one that exposes its functions to outside scripts via a good API.  phpBB was one of the first I looked at, since it's what I started with back when I was running EWP. 

No, I gave up on the premade forums.  They are all built for too wide an audience to be easy to work with.  I will spend far, far less time just making my own scripts than trying to fiddle around making some forum software allow me to work with posts and such outside of the forum itself.

Eric Storm