My bot combating is about to take a major hit. School is gonna start here in sunny, southern Cali very soon. Well, teachers gotta report back first
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well I decided to do some more research and found out why our forum is most likely targeted. This type of forums which is developed by Xenforo has seen loopholes in their code to allow new accounts to be created on the fly through scripts and bots. Which we all know well. But there was a patch and add on released by the organization that many Xenforo owners have installed in their forums to lock down passwords, ips, provide advanced captiva which will stop the biggest spammers from getting in through such a quick means through scripts. I don't think that solution has been established on this forums and with that the loophole is alive and well on this forum and the spammers found ours and doing what ever they so please.
We have to gain access to admin to do so or we are not going to get anywhere especially since Rivals wont give the time of day even though some users pay for the forums.
I am looking for possible backend ways but that is a stretch and probably wont work. We need an admin. We need one bad.
We have to gain access to admin to do so or we are not going to get anywhere especially since Rivals wont give the time of day even though some users pay for the forums.
I am looking for possible backend ways but that is a stretch and probably wont work. We need an admin. We need one bad.
My vote is we stay on this site bit set a date to seek higher ground on the PC page.
There has to be a reason the Pol Crap board is being totally spared.
Would reaching out to xenForo help? I reached out to them once last week and the bots mysteriously disappeared shortly afterwards. Not sure if I had anything to do with it but the timing sure was odd
yes and no. I am not sure how the site is hosted. I do not know if this is hosted by Xenforo which they do offer as a cloud solution or if this completely under yahoo control. If it is Yahoo then the answer is no but if Xenforo is hosting any of this then yes they could help in someway.
Could Xenforo be behind this? Does Rivals have to pay for an upgrade or patch ... and could this be Xenforos way to get Rivals to pay up?
All I'm saying is that I submitted a ticket with xenForo and an email to Audentio. Both explaining the situation, asking for help, and asked them to pass along a message to Yahoo/Rivals. The bots disappeared shortly after.
