Foz issues

[boz-monaut]

you really don't want to get furns angry

[Grimario]

you really don't want to get furns angry

Maybe I do...

[furns]

Haha

[Bremsstrahlung]

I've been reporting them whenever I see... especially after furns went into a meltdown after we replied

Sorry furns.

We can't troll the spammers? 😔

[boz-monaut]

I don't think you understand how robots work - they don't understand trolling

[Bremsstrahlung]

Mate, you've obviously never seen Bicentennial Man. Their feelings will be hurt when they read this.

[Grimario]

Is there a better captcha we can use?

Also, there's a ****load of posts by one particular bot up in the main foz... and I can't report them all. 60s between reports, got annoyed after one.

[furns]

It's already been banned. Have removed the posts I could find - let me know any threads that I missed.

[Superdylan]

It's already been banned. Have removed the posts I could find - let me know any threads that I missed.

Lol some bizarre translations among that bot.

Also howcome Mfks has been banned for?

[hawk]

[QUOTE=Superdylan;127878
Also howcome Mfks has been banned for?[/QUOTE]

wore a knights cap

[Bremsstrahlung]

Ok, I'm not sure it's really a foz issue but somebody a bit more tech savvy may be able to explain it.
When I try to access the foz (and I've only had this issue with the forum) on my iPhone/Mac (Apple slave) it just doesn't load and times out. I'll try another website straight away and it works, back to foz, times out.

It seems to only affect one network at a time though.
So i have 2 wifi networks I connect with and my phone data, and occassionally or once a week, one of them won't let me access the foz for a few days. So my wifi in sydney will block access on my phone (and about 50% of the time, my laptop) and I'll try to use my phones data and it works. And vice versa, sometimes the phone data doesn't work, and I need to connect to my wifi and it works perfectly. And as I said when it happens it generally lasts a few days.
Any suggestions why this happens?

[Grimario]

Dunno if it is a foz issue or just the shitty mobile skin... but whenever I try and read it on my phone, all quoted text is dark gray text on black background meaning it's almost unreadable.

Is this another limitation of the mobile skin? If so, has someone in vBulletin land created a free to use better mobile skin we could install?

[Grimario]

What other steps can be made to stop the influx of spam bots? Is captcha + email authentication what is being used right now?

[furns]

Yes
The only way to stop it is probably to go back to the questions rather than captcha

[Grimario]

Yes
The only way to stop it is probably to go back to the questions rather than captcha

Why did it change from "Who scored the winning goal in the GF?" with the correct answer being Griff?

[Blackmac79]

Can't we use something like admin approval?

[boz-monaut]

this sounds like a good suggestion

I might have a look into options when I get on an actual computer, there's only so much we admins can do on our mobiles whilst shitting

[q-money]

i just turned the questions back on as i've deleted about 10 threads and users today,

also banned russian domains from registering, lets see how it goes ay

[boz-monaut]

if you did all that while taking a shit then I'm seriously impressed

[Bon]

Anyone else been getting "Database Errors"??? Or is it just me?