Stop Forum Spam Effectiveness / Spam problems (VB Admins, please chime in!)

[Gene THF]

LBS what do you feel is the risk by not performing a complete re-install of the server?

[Gene THF]

Hello,

This is sort of an open ended question, we're looking for some feedback. Currently, on our site TinyHouseForum.com we're getting a lot of spammers signing up multiple accounts and...

[Gene THF]

Wayne, on the topic of them not being "all over the place", I must respectfully disagree. First of all, I know how to filter the phrases to get email body phrases and email subject phrases,...

[Gene THF]

We're editing the Email Phrases that are stored in the DB, but we're not using the AdminCP. I built a tool to help me edit them because they're all over the map to edit otherwise. But, no we're not...

[Gene THF]

Hey Guys,

When we installed the vB 5.5.3 upgrade, all of our email templates were overwritten. I didn't see any mention of this being the case when reviewing the upgrade notes - and obviously...

[Gene THF]

Im using Chrome, Firefox and Safari latest versions.

All of them exhibit the same issue.

We've never touched the Calendar code/templates/anything like that so this is all stock...

[Gene THF]

200 OK Response. It's definitely going and retrieving data - there's a response with what looks like related HTML.

I've upped the List's entries - but I feel like this is a band-aid. Something's...

[Gene THF]

Hello,

So, there seems to be a bug with the Calendar List Tab, where if you scroll down in the list the AJAX loader which I presume grabs more calendar events to list just goes crazy and...

[Gene THF]

Hello,

Currently, we're noticing that even though "Sunday" is the default day for the Start of the Day settings, the Calendar starts on Friday for new users.

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[Gene THF]

Does anyone know if the image verification checks are done via JS or PHP? Is the server sending the error message response back or is it all done client side?

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[Gene THF]

Yes, we both do. And we both notice these kinds of issues when logging in and out of the system like that...

[Gene THF]

I've done those things yes - and thanks for that tip on the debug mode IP filtering as I'm currently using that on my site now (Wayne actually set it up before I got a chance).

[Gene THF]

Hello,

Right now on TinyHouseForum.com, if you attempt to upload an image on the Media Tab, if you hit the Upload button it brings up a dialog to select an image. If you select any decently...

[Gene THF]

Broswer/OS: OS Mojave 10.14.3 (18D109) and Chrome Version 73.0.3683.86 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Password Age: as old as the Site installation, never changed.
Dev or Live Forums: Live Forums....

[Gene THF]

Hey OrganForum, thanks for that response - contextually it feels like the same issue so i'm going to look at what you've mentioned. Appreciate the feedback!

Gene

[Gene THF]

Hey Guys,

Update on this ticket. I've changed the MPM_Worker settings and that doesn't seem to solve this issue as we're still getting it - so just consider this issue unrelated to the...

[Gene THF]

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[Gene THF]

Are you saying you want me to set it to none? Or are you asking me if it's currently set to none. I've attached the screencap of our config settings....

[Gene THF]

Also, I can confirm that PHP Curl is installed.

[Gene THF]

I don't recall getting the Privacy Consent notice on this site.

I don't see why we wouldn't allow access to api.ipstack.com but i'll check?

Here's the output of the CURL command:...