PrettyPeopleWithSwords wrote:

I was trying to get into the doujinshi archive and I used the login that's listed here in the sticky. When I log in using it, it gives me a "Security Violation" and says that the "action you have attempted is not permitted." Then it doesn't let me look at the gallery AT ALL, not even the normal stuff. Has anyone else had this problem?

Do what satyr said about the cookies. For now the IFD account is down because the doujin gallery is down. I dunno when I'll get it back up in the future. I'll have to reupload it.

teyhy wrote:

Hi guys, I've been having some problems while trying to access "multimedia" when I try to view it I get this message "This webpage has a redirect loop"

I don't even know what the fuck. But I see the same error elsewhere in the Apache logs. I can only assume it's CloudFlare. I am turning it off and seeing if that's the problem.

teyhy wrote:

I can only see the frozen frog from image shack and this message "Domain unregistered." do I have to register with image shack or is it something to do with the forum?

Apparently ImageShack now requires domain owners register with it. I've done so, but it won't work immediately. Soon enough, they should be fine.

teyhy wrote:

I don't mean to be a bother but could you please take a look at this other problem I have? I can't see some images from the gallery that are posted in the forum, I can only see the link to the image. When I try to drag the link to the navigation bar I get this message:

"Security Violation
The action you attempted is not permitted.
Back to the Gallery"

It's the same thing when I try to copy the link and paste it in another window.

What's most likely going on, as we debugged on the previous page, is that your browser is still storing a cookie from a previous gallery logon, which prevents you from viewing its images.  It's a bug; Gio's working on it.  In the meantime, clear your browser cache and cookies.  That should log you out, and you'll be able to see gallery images again as normal. 

Raven Nightshade wrote:

Found a bot named gellet6. Posted in this thread.

Ha ha.  Bye bye spammer. 

You can always report spam posts with the "Report" button (next to "Quote") if you like.

Nope, it's happening to me, too.

Apparently they moved the site to a new server recently, which ordinarily doesn't change the way the site works. But I'm sending them a support ticket, that's almost definitely the problem here. Sorry guys!

I was trying to log into the board Wednesday, and it was so painfully slow, I couldn't get in.  Seems to work now, though...

As some of you have noticed, there's been a sharp uptick in spam recently -- lots of threads being created with the title "introduction " or "hey guys whats up," with spam links in the sig.  This most recent set of attacks seems to be originating from France rather than East Asia as usual.  Gio's the only person who can do much about it (apart from deleting them as they appear, which I've been doing as best I can) -- but Gio's even busier than usual right now.

The two most important things that you guys can do: do not click any spam links (duh), and hit Report when you spot these posts.  Some of you have already been doing this, and it really helps me keep the forum clean.  Thank you!  Together, we'll keep the spammers at bay. 

Yup.  For some reason, a lot of spammers register and never post.  This seems to be more typical of Third World spam; the ones you linked to, which I deleted, were both Bangladeshi.  In my imagination, the people creating these spam accounts aren't closely supervised and can get paid based on the number of forums they infiltrate, not the number they actually post to, but I have no idea whether that's right.  Anyway, Gio periodically nukes them by deleting all user accounts that have never posted, but it doesn't stop new ones from signing up.

Good eye -- that's a spammer, all right.  BALEETED.    Thank you!  Feel free to PM me rather than posting here if you spot more.

Confidential to those of you who have been hitting that Report button: thank you so much.  You are my heroes.

Leaderboard for the last two weeks:
onsenmark: 10
Ragnarok: 4
allegoriest: 2
MissMocha: 1

Onsenmark is hereby dubbed Spambane in honor of extraordinary achievements in the field of spam countermeasures.

I'm like Kamen Rider Double when it comes to spammers on here.

"Now... count up your sins!"

JOKER EXTREME!



(I totally need to find a CycloneJoker icon now. )

Last edited by onsenmark (05-30-2012 03:46:12 PM)

There's a testthree too with the same profile info. Jussayin. *suspicion*

onsenmark wrote:

allegoriest wrote:

There's a testthree too with the same profile info. Jussayin. *suspicion*

Yeah, I PMed Satereyes, just in case.

*spamfighting brofist*

Spamfighting superhero leaderboard since May 30:
onsenmark: 17
allegoriest: 7
Aine Silveria: 5
thothptah: 5
gorgeousshutin: 4
CrystallineDream: 3
Syora: 3
dirufacade: 2
Ashnod: 1
Dognog: 1
Overlord Morgus: 1
Ragnarok: 1

At a glance that looks like a lot of spam -- fifty reports total in two weeks! -- but it wasn't actually that much.  Many spam posts got reported by more than one alert forumite, and onsenmark in particular has been super-proactive about fingering spam accounts before they actually post.  (You can usually tell by their signatures.)

Keep fighting the good fight!