#stopforumspam — Public Fediverse posts

Been receiving emails from UptimeRobot for a few days saying that my site is down, then up again. I thought that my server was having issues, or that I was being sieged by scrapers again.

But today I found out that UptimeRobot is changing the IP addresses for their checkers and some of those IPs are in the StopForumSpam daily lists.

After getting the updated IP list from https://uptimerobot.com/help/locations/ and adding them to the allowlist of my firewall, the alerts are gone.

#stopforumspam #uptimerobot

Why? Why can't I register at #StopForumSpam ? Regardless of username, email address or IP I always get: "Account details blacklisted. Your details have been found in our database and thus are not allowed to register. This incident has been reported."

ARGH!

@Dpaste oh cool! if it's useful for you, I've written this Django app for fighting form spam via #stopforumspam: https://github.com/benjaoming/django-stopforumspam

As a mod for Sakurajima Social and as a relay between Sakurajima and Urusai Social, I have been noticing a lot of #spam #bot attacks in the past few days. I feel like mods are playing whack-a-mole against these bots. I wonder if mods/admins will get tired enough to temporarily limit all instances that could be targeted for attack, which I'm calling "erecting a #fedibarrier". Yes, #StopForumSpam and #hCaptcha are good for certain cases, but hCaptcha and other CAPTCHAs are not effective against bots that create accounts via the API directly (that I know of, at least), and StopForumSpam and other lists can be overcome if bots try to brute-force their way to get past the email validation.

Although limiting almost every server will be tedious, it will affect relationships among those who are not mutuals with each other, and it goes against why the #fediverse exists, but the time and energy #moderators and #admin spend while trying to stop these bots.

If you agree with me, go ahead and favorite and #boost this post; otherwise, you can comment to this post as long as you are civil.

Thank you for your time.

Decided to incorporate the yearly #stopforumspam IP List into my firewall on #OpenBSD... 700,000 ips in total are blocked on my server now lmao