Posted By
Csabo
on 2006-03-15
10:14:22
|  Site Security, Changes to forum posting
The Plus/4 World site administration team (fine, me) is working on securing the site. For now we have never been abused by anyone in any way, and let's hope it stays that way (fingers crossed), but it's never a bad idea to fix security holes. A lot of problems have been addressed in the past days.
One big hole was the full HTML posting allowed. This is never a good idea. Again, it's not that any one of our community has abused this, but it needed to be done. The forum help has already been updated, and for now we're limited to B, U and I tags and simple TABLE formatting, the rest will be merrily filtered out. I will work on a proper [img] and/or [url] tags if you guys feel that it's necessary. Let me know if you have any comments.
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Posted By
TMR
on 2006-03-15
14:48:32
 | Re: Site Security, Changes to forum posting
Yeah, i think we need IMG and URL tags please.
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Posted By
Ulysses777
on 2006-03-15
17:12:12
| Re: Site Security, Changes to forum posting
URL tags are a must. 
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Posted By
Gaia
on 2006-03-15
18:56:21
| Re: Site Security, Changes to forum posting
I second that, URL and IMG are essential! Anyway, I like the idea of security nevertheless 
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Posted By
TMR
on 2006-03-15
20:38:02
| Re: Site Security, Changes to forum posting
Oh yeah, considering how many of the Proboards forums are getting those ridiculous junk spams i'm all for seeing security beefed up here.
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Posted By
KiCHY
on 2012-02-13
07:48:53
| Re: Site Security, Changes to forum posting
We can see more and more spam posts from week to week on the forum. Should we consider some kind of captcha when ppl submit their posts, or, force them to login (no more anonimous posts...) ?
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Posted By
siz
on 2012-02-13
10:48:31
| Re: Site Security, Changes to forum posting
I have to agree with KiCHY. It's a nice feature to allow anonymous posting but it requires a lot of effort to fight against spam. At least a CAPTCHA would be nice for anonymous posters to prevent unwanted content.
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Posted By
TMR
on 2012-02-13
15:05:57
| Re: Site Security, Changes to forum posting
If we're changing to login only, can someone email me about my account because i've forgotten what the login is...! =-)
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Posted By
rudis
on 2012-02-13
15:10:11
 | Re: Site Security, Changes to forum posting
you just logged in to post, so what the problem?
captcha is a nice thing to avoid some spaming bots
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Posted By
Luca
on 2012-02-13
17:55:42
 | Re: Site Security, Changes to forum posting
TMR: check your fb messages
rudis: he's right, he used his handle tag, but he wasn't logged in when he did that-
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2012-02-13
20:23:06
| Re: Site Security, Changes to forum posting
A few more bots got through lately, mostly cause they started following the links from the home page (commenting on the news items). For every spam you do see, there's 5-10 times as much caught and logged, never showing up. Each IP is added to the blocked list and if there's a pattern in the posts, I add that to the list as well.
Clearing them up for us admins is a single click, I apologize for the inconvenience of you guys having to see them for long periods of time.
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Posted By
TMR
on 2012-02-14
08:43:23
| Re: Site Security, Changes to forum posting
Ah, that's better i'm feeling myself again [fnarr, fnarr] =-)
Edit: why does the "posted by" say "TMR, T.M.R"...?
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Posted By
Luca
on 2012-02-14
09:06:31
| Re: Site Security, Changes to forum posting
Sorry, I fixed it but AGAIN I forgot to refresh the site
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2012-02-22
22:12:39
| Re: Site Security, Changes to forum posting
Ok, if all goes well, I have the manual spam killing feature made public. Some of you (with sufficient access rights) will see a [ Spam ] link next to the post topic. It's a single click, be gentle with it. Please report if it worked or if you have any problems with it to me via a PM.
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