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[ItsTehPope]

Travis and myself is aware of all the spam accounts that have shown up of late and a resolution is in the works, including large scale IP bans of several nations that were invaded by Hitler

[Knightofargh]

So in former Soviet Europe spam reads you?

Crushing the spam bots is a worthy goal. Best of luck.

[ItsTehPope]

So in former Soviet Europe spam reads you?

Crushing the spam bots is a worthy goal. Best of luck.

As it stands, I'm thinking that to make my life easier i'll be putting in a request for a shun on several /8 blocks that are under APNIC and RIPE NCC control

[ItsTehPope]

The 83.30.0.0/16 network has been banned.

[serrate]

Is that all it takes?  Or will further bans be incoming?  I'd hate to see registrations completely locked down like the old site, but then the old site did successfully stop spammers.  I hope there's a middle ground that works.

[ItsTehPope]

Is that all it takes?  Or will further bans be incoming?  I'd hate to see registrations completely locked down like the old site, but then the old site did successfully stop spammers.  I hope there's a middle ground that works.

Btechunits registration was a cumbersome nightmare, and stunk of the bullshit you hear about clubs that require secret handshakes and passing muster to get into.  All this ban did was block 65K IPv4 addresses that are assigned to APNIC.  Since this is a message board focused on Battletech and other wargames/RPG's in the midwestern United States - and to be honest, I could ban all of the IPv4 addresses allocated to APNIC and we'd lose maybe 4 people who could contribute positively to this board, none of these people who are actually registered here, or in all likeliness give a shit.

[ItsTehPope]

Based on the new influx of spammers tonight, I have added several /8 subnets to the ban list.  For those of you who don't know what a /8 means, several IP blocks that are 16,777,216 IP addresses of hosts are flat out not accessing anymore.

[ItsTehPope]

Up to 112 million IP addresses banned.  And yes, if I could find the ranges assigned to Russia, Poland and say, all of APNIC they'd be banned in a heartbeat.

Then again, if we were on IPv6 this would be so stupidly easy its sad...

[ItsTehPope]

It looks like the most recent steps taken have helped solve the issue significantly- several APNIC nations are no longer allowed to register and have upped the CAPTCHA complexity.

[Knightofargh]

Which raises similar questions of woodchucks and wood chucking, would a CAPTCHA stop a spammer from Kamchatka?

[maddyfish]

It looks like the most recent steps taken have helped solve the issue significantly- several APNIC nations are no longer allowed to register and have upped the CAPTCHA complexity.

Thankfully I am already registered as I can never figure out those CAPTCHA things.

[ItsTehPope]

For amusement value - I did some guesstimation on the current IP ban list - we're at 194 million or so banned IP's. 

[maddyfish]

For amusement value - I did some guesstimation on the current IP ban list - we're at 194 million or so banned IP's. 

Wow tough moderators here

[ItsTehPope]

For amusement value - I did some guesstimation on the current IP ban list - we're at 194 million or so banned IP's. 

Wow tough moderators here

Uncaring moderators actually.  Knowing how IP's are assigned regionally helps out as well - in all but two instances a 12million chunk of IP's were banned because they were coming from nations that would have no reason to register/post here and were also known for being massive spam-pits.  The two instances that were not large IP bans were from the United States oddly enough.  In those instances I only blocked a smaller, 255!ish IP range.

[ItsTehPope]

For amusement value - I did some guesstimation on the current IP ban list - we're at 194 million or so banned IP's. 

Wow tough moderators here

Uncaring moderators actually.  Knowing how IP's are assigned regionally helps out as well - in all but two instances a 12million chunk of IP's were banned because they were coming from nations that would have no reason to register/post here and were also known for being massive spam-pits.  The two instances that were not large IP bans were from the United States oddly enough.  In those instances I only blocked a smaller, 255!ish IP range.

After seeing some oddities in the user login attempts today, I've done IP bans in parts of the US/UK today, but these are smaller IP bans than usual (255 IP chunks rather than the 12 million I tend to do in the past)