Anti Auto poster?

[-Im.z2ight-]

I heard someone talking about they used a code to block auto posters from use it on there site.

Is this true?

Can you share the code please.

 

[jSx@ECD]

Doubt it ..

 

[-Im.z2ight-]

I thought someone said they found a way to block auto posters other then capatcha.

 

[DEViANCE]

don't see how as the ip is just gonna be the same as the users eh.. unless it has a specific user-agent?? sorry im not to familiar with these auto posters...

 

[r0ck]

htaccess useragent "black" will block 80% of auto submits

example

   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^BadBot
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://go.away/

 

[ieatlinux]

Yes, you just have to block the known user agents of the auto posters in htaccess...until they start spoofing a browser user agent then there really isn't much you can do other than enforcing a post time limit.

 

[Raven Faust]

htaccess useragent "black" will block 80% of auto submits

example

   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^BadBot
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://go.away/

if you do that wont it make Google etc leave?

 

[r0ck]

not if you don't put Google etc's useragent

however Jay will need to confirm his posters useragent but I think its Black

 

[ilyathereis]

What about warez forums that require you to check a box before you submit a post? The little check box says you'll follow the rules, etc. Some sites have this and you have to check the box every 5 or 6 posts you made. It doesn't go away even if you've made hundreds of posts. I can't think of the specific forum right now, but I can't use MultiPoster on that forum because of the damn check box.

Now that I think about it, autoposters could be set up to check a certain box field...

 

[DEViANCE]

What about warez forums that require you to check a box before you submit a post? The little check box says you'll follow the rules, etc. Some sites have this and you have to check the box every 5 or 6 posts you made. It doesn't go away even if you've made hundreds of posts. I can't think of the specific forum right now, but I can't use MultiPoster on that forum because of the damn check box.

Now that I think about it, autoposters could be set up to check a certain box field...

Would then be simple for auto poster creators to bypass this.

Maybe an auto changing anti-bot question would work well but annoying for genuine users.

 

[Raven Faust]

so to ban Auto posters what do i put?

 

[bmoeller]

What about warez forums that require you to check a box before you submit a post? The little check box says you'll follow the rules, etc. Some sites have this and you have to check the box every 5 or 6 posts you made. It doesn't go away even if you've made hundreds of posts. I can't think of the specific forum right now, but I can't use MultiPoster on that forum because of the damn check box.

Now that I think about it, autoposters could be set up to check a certain box field...

DP has this feature and the use vb as their software