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I am asking permition to remove the branding tool tip titles from my sites | Forum

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Bob (Coder Whacker)
Bob (Coder Whacker) Feb 22 '13
I really hope I do not have to pay to do this as the title "Powered by Oxwall Community Software" is attracting the default avatar spam bot to my sites. As this title is what is being used by the default avatar spammer at present and maybe many more spam agents will be using this google search at a later date.

Could I please have permission and could you please inform others how one can edit this out especial those with sites that wish to remain private?
The Forum post is edited by Bob (Coder Whacker) Feb 22 '13
Michel
Michel Feb 22 '13
i am also getting tired of those spammers i am a fansite beeing monitored by a game called Tibia and this is not good if i get those spammers on my site
Bob (Coder Whacker)
Bob (Coder Whacker) Feb 22 '13
that would never of happened if the title had not been present in the branding. but to get rid of the spam just add 2 or 3 required questions that normally gets rid of the default avatar spam agent. My Code Whacker site and 3 others are totally free of spam. One more additive is to set up a green room call it say Newbies. Give the role no ability to post anything. This means you can vet and get rid of any spammers and change the role of genuine people with interest in your site.   
Michel
Michel Feb 22 '13
Thanks,ive also disabled the blog section cuz they spam alot on it
The Forum post is edited by Michel Feb 22 '13
Bob (Coder Whacker)
Bob (Coder Whacker) Feb 22 '13
Your welcome Michel I am at war with the default avatar spammer in the end I will win. I totally hate these people that spam and have no care for others to get their advertising across.

I also dislike IP spam protecting software because it blocks thousands of IPS and never will solve the spamming problem without upsetting non spammers. Thus limiting down people interested in community sites.

These plugins also cause problems with CPU overload on servers and annoy Hosting services. Agreed that spamming bot not stopped do the same thing.

 
Michel
Michel Feb 22 '13
ye the anti spam plugin even blocks my phone ip lol
Bob (Coder Whacker)
Bob (Coder Whacker) Feb 22 '13
yes because your phone is on a IPS that's been blocked just imagine how many other cell phone servers have been blocked we are talking thousands of ISP's
Michel
Michel Feb 22 '13
ye,there need to be something else that can fix this problem
Bob (Coder Whacker)
Bob (Coder Whacker) Feb 22 '13
Yes my solutions do solve the problem, they are simple and effective. In the end Emil and his bosses will have to listen.   
Michel
Michel Feb 22 '13
well ill hope they catch those people who are doing this im getting crazzy about deleting spammers everyday
Bradford Page
Bradford Page Feb 22 '13
Bob


I just transfered over an existing site that was spam free for years over to Oxwall and on the first day had to delete 50 spammers that tried to sign up.


I have no choice but to leave the manual approve profile on


Horrible

cit27
cit27 Feb 22 '13
My site is for public (no manual approve)... (just like other social networking method ).... but I got a lot of spammers before, everyday may be more than 10 spammers sign up and post to blogs (they posted drug/sex article/duplicate sexs article with different username) and video (they posted porn video/duplicate video with different username)...After activating the latest updated antispammers.... it seems my site is now free of spammer without having to disable the blog section or use manual approve...
Gtranslated
The Forum post is edited by cit27 Feb 22 '13
Bradford Page
Bradford Page Feb 22 '13
I have added the anti-spammer and will see how it goes
Michel
Michel Feb 22 '13
Well this anti spammer of me if fully updated and still having problems with spammers,i cant buy anti spam programs cuz its only possible to pay with paypal and not ideal or something else
Unique
Unique Feb 22 '13
FREE anti spammer
Anti Spammer: http://www.oxwall.org/store/item/333 Last updated Jan 19 (FULL FEATURE disable/enable all features))  by Paul Cuffe
watchdog: http://www.oxwall.org/store/item/415 (Note: Using data from StopForumSpam.com database) by Oxwall Software
The Forum post is edited by Unique Feb 22 '13
Bob (Coder Whacker)
Bob (Coder Whacker) Feb 22 '13
The point is the fact we would never had spam in this title did not lead spammers to our site. My system works that's why Code Whacker is spam free and has been so for 4 months. The proof is in the pudding. But this topic was one asking permission to remove the title tool tip on the branding and not a place to advertise spam IP blocking software. Sorry to say i find it totally unnecessary. It does not matter if its been updated thousand of IPS's still get blocked and it causes a problem with CPU usage overload. 

Its always just been a matter of adding required questions to the profile questions to upset the spamming agents template. Even if you have 1,000 users joining each day the spamming agent bot will be stopped in its track. The default avatar spammer has only been the real big problem and his advertisers are limited to hundreds. If we can block the agent on Code Whackerit does not take a rocket scientist to work out why and please lets be honest those trying to fob off the spam checkers know what I say is total true. I do not lie!  I also have integrity! 



     

The Forum post is edited by Bob (Coder Whacker) Feb 22 '13
Unique
Unique Feb 22 '13

Quote from Bob (Coder Whacker) I really hope I do not have to pay to do this as the title "Powered by Oxwall Community Software" is attracting the default avatar spam bot to my sites. As this title is what is being used by the default avatar spammer at present and maybe many more spam agents will be using this google search at a later date. Could I please have permission and could you please inform others how one can edit this out especial those with sites that wish to remain private?

I tried searching this: Powered by Oxwall Community Software using google search engine tool through my country....but very difficult to find Codewhacker site.....
If your site is not so well knownwith this keyword, so do not worry with this text code
The Forum post is edited by Unique Feb 22 '13
Unique
Unique Feb 22 '13
What is the spammer?
*1 Robot/machine ->Only can be prevented by the anti spammer and security sign up/sign in (we have this tool)
*2 Human -> bad attituted->They can sign up/sign in as non spammer member-> can be prevented by your site Terms of Service -> Deleted/Restricted Area/Flagged/etc (default oxwall software already has this tool)
=> how do we know if they are spammers/bad attituded? of course after they making a new post you will know (NOTE: You'll never know if you do not allow them to post -so you do not need to run social website with allowing member to post)

How Robot/machine can Finding Your Site?
*1 using the unique oxwall code (They learn oxwall security code): 50-100% can find all active oxwall website
*2 using your site meta keyword:
100% can find all of the popular sites that use certain keywords that are being searched -> But they have to pass the first point 

How Human can finding your site?
*Using search engine tool such as: google, yahoo, bing, etc: (
specific keyword) -> 100% can find all of the popular sites that use certain meta keywords that are being searched ->

So what is your site meta keyword?

ex: Good anti spammer, why do you hate, bad IP, StopForumSpam, unique, stupidman, very good plugin, you are a bad adminsite, smart aleck, my big ego, etc

How search engine find your site meta keyword?
Please search on the forum how to set your site meta keyword

This is from all search engine
machine:
Site meta keyword or keyword of post = 60 %
sidebar/top/footer link= 20% to 30%
The Forum post is edited by Unique Feb 22 '13
cit27
cit27 Feb 22 '13

Quote from Unique I tried searching this: Powered by Oxwall Community Software using google search engine tool through my country...

I tried my self using this keyword to find my site   but found 28.000 result in 0,19 second...Dont know at what page my site was listed/displayed instead I found a lot of other sites or popular post/article that do not use the oxwall software:

The Forum post is edited by cit27 Feb 22 '13
Bob (Coder Whacker)
Bob (Coder Whacker) Feb 23 '13
Your argument is leading to something else cit27, because if you look at the logic concerning the situation the default auto spammer seems to be finding new sites with in a two days or so. This means two things either a search engine is being used or that Oxwall's data has been compromised. The later I tend not to want to believe.

So how are Oxwall's sites being found by the false avatar spam agent?

P.S. I do tech on a few clients sites as active as you stated, it works fine Unique. Totally no reason to be scared in trying it out.  


The Forum post is edited by Bob (Coder Whacker) Feb 24 '13
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