Greg Ellis Posted July 16 Report Posted July 16 As of this morning they completely fill the first page of the General Forum.
201er Posted July 16 Report Posted July 16 Call it Airline-Ticket-Name-Change-Space, can't see anything Mooney related any more
N201MKTurbo Posted July 16 Report Posted July 16 Everybody is talking about how wonderful AI is going to make our lives. Well, see what AI is being used for, making our lives miserable.
DonMuncy Posted July 16 Report Posted July 16 I hope someone knows how to fix this. I don't have a clue.
Pinecone Posted July 16 Report Posted July 16 Not the first time this year even. Mods have to clean out and do some blocking.
DCarlton Posted July 16 Report Posted July 16 With the flood, almost seems like the beginning of a denial of service type attack? If MS needs donations to up their IT security game, please let us know. 1
Oscar Avalle Posted July 22 Report Posted July 22 I just unsubscribed from my Mooneyspace email alerts! It is really becoming very seriousSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
Oscar Avalle Posted July 22 Report Posted July 22 After unsubscribing from Mooneyspace I got 30! yes 30 emails with spam. I had to block Mooneyspace. I hope we can find a solution to this. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
irishpilot Posted July 22 Report Posted July 22 I just flagged all those as spammers. That will stop them, but Craig needs to change the approval process. I can't stop them from creating new accounts. 1
hammdo Posted July 22 Report Posted July 22 It’s worse today, may need to give 24 hour wait then allow 5 post max
irishpilot Posted July 22 Report Posted July 22 3 minutes ago, hammdo said: It’s worse today, may need to give 24 hour wait then allow 5 post max Yeah, my phone woke me up which is why I logged in. I sold my Mooney years ago. Calling @mooniac58 to the thread. Hopefully he has some fixes he can put into effect. 1
N201MKTurbo Posted July 22 Report Posted July 22 Unfortunately, Mooneyspace will probably need to implement a new user validation where a new user will need to apply and be given a code to continue. This will keep bots at bay until they figure out how to deal with the new procedure. 2
mooniac58 Posted July 22 Report Posted July 22 The forum software we use (IPBoard4) does not have a lot of additional options to try and stop bot registrations and I am using everything available short of manually approving new registrations, which I frankly just don't have the time to do. For now I am relying on users reporting spam content and then we flag the users as spammers in the system which removes their content, bans the account and restricts the IP addresses they were using. There is a new major version of IPBoard coming out soon (IPBoard5) and I am hoping there is some new features in there to better combat the spambots. 1 5
mooniac58 Posted July 22 Report Posted July 22 I also just switched to a different "captcha" system that is supposed to be more robust - but with AI tech today I am not sure if this will help. Looking through the site logs I can see that for the most part the bot blocking measures are working as we had over 100 account registration attempts today during a 1 hour period and 90% of them were blocked from registering. Of course some got through and created a lot of garbage content which has now been removed. Please report anything else you find that I might have missed so that I can remove it and ban the accounts! Thank you, Craig
N201MKTurbo Posted July 22 Report Posted July 22 35 minutes ago, mooniac58 said: I also just switched to a different "captcha" system that is supposed to be more robust - but with AI tech today I am not sure if this will help. Looking through the site logs I can see that for the most part the bot blocking measures are working as we had over 100 account registration attempts today during a 1 hour period and 90% of them were blocked from registering. Of course some got through and created a lot of garbage content which has now been removed. Please report anything else you find that I might have missed so that I can remove it and ban the accounts! Thank you, Craig Thanks for dealing with this. it is sad you have to. I fear that AI's focus will be doing stuff like this.
Oscar Avalle Posted July 23 Report Posted July 23 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GeeBee Posted August 1 Report Posted August 1 Need to put the site behind a pay wall. Everyone who matters is already ponying up the money now anyway, and make it so those who don't, can't post. 4
IvanP Posted August 1 Report Posted August 1 F&^#$*# AI bots are taking over the forums. As much as I am a CB, I second the paywall proposal, so long as it is reasonable.
Andy95W Posted August 1 Report Posted August 1 2 hours ago, GeeBee said: Need to put the site behind a pay wall. Everyone who matters is already ponying up the money now anyway, and make is so those who don't, can't post. Some of those not ponying up are A&P/IAs that provide invaluable advice for free. Be careful what you wish for. 2
Bolter Posted August 1 Report Posted August 1 3 hours ago, GeeBee said: Need to put the site behind a pay wall. Everyone who matters is already ponying up the money now anyway, and make is so those who don't, can't post. 25 minutes ago, Andy95W said: Some of those not ponying up are A&P/IAs that provide invaluable advice for free. Be careful what you wish for. Will a super cheap paywall stop scammers? Make it cost a penny to have an account that can post. After 1 year, you have free renewals. Even CB's can afford a penny, one time. -dan
GeeBee Posted August 2 Report Posted August 2 3 hours ago, Andy95W said: Some of those not ponying up are A&P/IAs that provide invaluable advice for free. Be careful what you wish for. If they are what they say, let them apply for a "courtesy membership". However the vast majority joining are not of that category. I am simply trying to cut down the workload of the administrator. A nominal fee of 10 or 20 dollars is not unreasonable for anybody to be here. Even volunteers. I seriously doubt some of those who are A&Ps providing free advice want to sort through the commercials anyway. I bet they donate like the rest of us. Otherwise let's go to the Beechtalk.com model and have everyone vetted.
GeeBee Posted August 2 Report Posted August 2 14 hours ago, Andy95W said: Some of those not ponying up are A&P/IAs that provide invaluable advice for free. Be careful what you wish for. 27 pages of spam, any suggestions other than pay wall?
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