These aren't even nice spambots. They're the kind who are promoting a service which uses Chinese slaves to build up your WoW level and/or simply stealing your account. Hell, isn't the whole fun of WoW levelling up, getting better and nicer items and quests?
Can you limit new members from posting anywhere but one specific thread until X number of posts? Like, make a "spam thread" and force all new recruits to have 10 posts there before they can move on to other threads.
It's actually not that hard to make money in WoW. All you have to do is take some time out of your day to carefully analyze the market in your server via the auction house and find out which items are in high demand, usually trade goods like ores and cloths. Find out the average price on your server and then occasionally check for discrepancies in price. Buy low and sell high.
Actually, on each server I play on, I have one low level guy with mining. I have him make rounds collecting copper ore, then I sell it for 5-10 gold, depending on the server. If I send the proceeds to one of my low level guys, they'll typically have enough to live comfortable for a while.
But I've been known to speculate in the copper ore and wool cloth markets.
... although, I might not be leveling as fast. Although I do jump around a lot between characters, my first character, a warrior I started a few months ago, is still lev. 37. But he does have about 200 gold.
200 at 37? Way more than I had. For making gold, you can just get to 70 and do daily quests, easily 100g in under an hour. Until you run out of quests for that day.
"If you are a spambot, please confirm your email here:"
email: |_________________|
Or what would be even better:
"If you are not a spambot please leave the field below blank and click on the image to continue. Do not click the next button."
(There's a text field and an image with the crazy letters. There is an invisible flash gadget laid over the top of it that loads the form data, makes sure the one field is blank and continues the process.)
Can we maybe get one of those little "write the letters in the picture in this box" thingy for registrations? We seem to be getting hit pretty hard by our robot overlords lately.
I would imagine thats a feature of vbulletin, but really I have no idea how the thing works so it could actually be a pain in the ass to implement.
Actually, we already have this enabled, but CAPTCHA has been largely exploited and worked-around. We just have to wait for vBulletin to include more advanced forms of registration prevention, unfortunately.
Actually, we already have this enabled, but CAPTCHA has been largely exploited and worked-around. We just have to wait for vBulletin to include more advanced forms of registration prevention, unfortunately.
That's only true if you can't go messing with the code yourself and adding some crazy spambot catcher method of your own into the process.
I suppose vBulletin isn't some open source bit of code though.
I'm not sure what the problem is. I try to catch as many as I can, and I ban a ton before they even post anything. And yet the keep coming.
Mario, is there some way that all new registrants would require approval from a mod or something before they could post? I wouldn't mind slogging through it all if it meant that I didn't have to wake up to find 6 new spambots that have posted so much that they actually get the ability to post new threads.
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Actually, on each server I play on, I have one low level guy with mining. I have him make rounds collecting copper ore, then I sell it for 5-10 gold, depending on the server. If I send the proceeds to one of my low level guys, they'll typically have enough to live comfortable for a while.
But I've been known to speculate in the copper ore and wool cloth markets.
... although, I might not be leveling as fast. Although I do jump around a lot between characters, my first character, a warrior I started a few months ago, is still lev. 37. But he does have about 200 gold.
Edit: What was this thread about again?
Uh, yeah, spam is bad.
This is crazy.
It's bulletproof. It can't possibly fail.
email: |_________________|
Or what would be even better:
"If you are not a spambot please leave the field below blank and click on the image to continue. Do not click the next button."
(There's a text field and an image with the crazy letters. There is an invisible flash gadget laid over the top of it that loads the form data, makes sure the one field is blank and continues the process.)
Heh heh heh...
Wait.
Shit.
I would imagine thats a feature of vbulletin, but really I have no idea how the thing works so it could actually be a pain in the ass to implement.
That's only true if you can't go messing with the code yourself and adding some crazy spambot catcher method of your own into the process.
I suppose vBulletin isn't some open source bit of code though.
Still, I'm gonna miss that guy...
Also, some of these spambots seem to have a distinct Chinese origin. Is this my fault?
Mario, is there some way that all new registrants would require approval from a mod or something before they could post? I wouldn't mind slogging through it all if it meant that I didn't have to wake up to find 6 new spambots that have posted so much that they actually get the ability to post new threads.
EDIT: It's a win-win anyway because hey, if an actual person can't figure that one out why do we want them in our little forum?