FixThisForum 0 Report post Posted January 7, 2020 (edited) Spammers are easily able to create threads here and have done so in the past 3 years and it pisses me off that these shitposters put the effort to register and account to flood such a great website with piles of garbage. This is due to a number of issues 1. The Forum may or may not be out-of-date. It is missing a report button for spammers. Yes this requires a full backup, someone who can transfer data from one server to another, lots of time, lots of effort, running the webpage on a virtualized platform to make sure nothing gets lost and someone who knows what they are doing. 2. The captchas are not working properly, lack of sufficient anti-spam measures to make it harder etc. Suggestions: 1. All newly registered users go to 'Trial Mode'. People who post enough and who do not break rules go to 'Approved Users'. Used in Sonic Retro. Admins would need to approve. 2. Upgrade or change forum versions to something more robust and feature packed yet cheaper. Would have protection against spam pests. Probably unnecessary if the forum version is stable enough. 3. Allowing trustworthy and well-known people with website/forum experience to help volunteer and work on the website instead of one person do all the heavy lifting. (BF2:SP Community or someone close to the BF2 scene that's 100% trustworthy.) This will result in progress being made at a faster rate but requires money to make the upgrade. 4. Look for solutions for anti-spam measures. There are plugins etc for this forum software to filter it out but multiple solutions must be implemented along with having moderators that are vigilant against user requests. Is asking for a bit much as a volunteer job and doesn't pay but yeah. I know it costs money to continue to host a website in a server, but mitigating the cost by finding an alternative provider with less security holes will be beneficial. Forgive me for registering my username as FixThisForum, but seeing this great hub of knowledge being ruined by these cyber vermin pisses me off and it continually happens with no real guards to prevent it in the future. So something must be done. Edited January 7, 2020 by FixThisForum Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CheetahShrk 0 Report post Posted February 10, 2020 (edited) The forum is up to date. It's just really misconfigured as the spam button and heavier filter are features just not enabled. There's only one person with access to all of it and he's awol 😕 Edited February 10, 2020 by CheetahShrk Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mschoeldgen[Xww2] 0 Report post Posted April 22, 2020 We moderators can flag posters as spammers and we continue to do so once a spammer is reported. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kano 0 Report post Posted April 29, 2020 Ive offered several times to help moderate this site or just take it over! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CheetahShrk 0 Report post Posted April 30, 2020 (edited) On 4/28/2020 at 11:46 PM, kano said: Ive offered several times to help moderate this site or just take it over! Like I said multiple times. The guy with the ability to fix the spam problems and admin in general is awol. I wouldn't be surprised if the forum randomly goes offline for good one day. Edited April 30, 2020 by CheetahShrk Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kano 0 Report post Posted May 2, 2020 well i downloaded every tutorial to add to our website but it will be a sad day for sure when we loose this site! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Detrux 0 Report post Posted May 2, 2020 Hey guys Sorry for always going AWOL on this, it is a pain to keep this site updated and costs $300 a year to host with sufficient memory as this forum software is so memory and CPU intensive vs. phpbb. The spam problem was fixed because I renew the Invision Power Board license ($25/yr) as well as made registration more difficult and applied security updates. I am happy to keep it here but fix the spam if anyone can help shoulder some of the yearly costs. Thanks, Det Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cobrachoppergirl 0 Report post Posted June 6, 2020 $300 a year? Geez. I assume for some kind of cloud hosting account. This site probably see's no traffic any more and is about as close to being a grandfathered site as a site can be - I mean, just about all the classic games are dead short of a tiny enclave handful of players. Kudos for keeping it going for archival purposes.... for them? A lot of obscure modding technical information is buried inside it's posts, and yet sadly none of them are sought out anymore.... because, well, why? EA should of just bought GameSpy, or Gamespy donate their code to the public. What a catastrophe. Some of us with webservers would probably host it for free off our cable modems.... or... setup your own with a copy of Linux and an Apache install. I set my own webserver up to be completely solid state with no moving parts at all... 10-15 years ago... and it's been running nonstop since then... at a whopping 400mghz single core and 108mb of RAM. I kid you not. 108mb of RAM (20mb shared video memory). Power consumption equivalent to a nightlight. I went extreme minimalist for hardware, but nothing says you have to. Oh yeah, and, hi everybody! 🙂 CHOPPERGIRL Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Catbox 0 Report post Posted July 14, 2020 Hey Detrux, I am around and can check in once in awhile. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cobrachoppergirl 0 Report post Posted September 2, 2020 Can we get the password strength requirements toned way back a bit. They are off the scale. It took me five minutes to come up with a password that was a bunch of gibberish that met its requirements. I literally won't be able to remember it, any more than I'll be able to remember the last one I had to make up to reset my password and log in. They are... unnecessary. This place isn't a target for... well.. anybody to break in anymore. If it ever was. It's just an online forum. And oddly, from a hacker's perspective, strong passwords are actually counter effective, it actually makes breaking into someone's account so much easier, because by requiring a password to meet very stringent requirements, you eliminate a whole pile of passwords to try for the hacker by knowing that a huge swath of them... don't qualify and can never be set as the password. Anyway, miss all you guys and the action, and thanks for running bfeditor.org back in the day. I use to log into this place every day/week to scour for new tricks someone had discovered, and post my own... air-war.org Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixThisForum 0 Report post Posted September 19, 2020 (edited) Damn I really appreciate the efforts Detrux. Is there a donation link I can chip in some money? I don't want this forum to be like the BF2 SP forum which just died after a supposed upgrade was meant to be underway. Don't want to seem ungrateful. I understand that there's irl issues. Just wondering why it's still down? http://www.battlefieldsingleplayer.com/ Edited September 19, 2020 by FixThisForum Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
