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Stopping trolls by banning hotmail, etc.
Past couple of days we have had heavy amounts of trolls sign up using yahoo, hotmail, lycos, etc. Is there a list of free e-mail accounts and a hack that will disable them from using these accounts?
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I tried to post my banned free e-mail list and received the following.
1. The text that you have entered is too long (184875 characters). Please shorten it to 50000 characters long. Syl... |
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Try the link in my sig.
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2 points:
1- It is impossible to ban them all because of services like everyone.net. By using such services every domain owner can turn his domain to a free email provider for free so it is impossible to track them all. 2- It is not a very good idea to have a very long banned list in vb options because all these options are assigned to a variable individually in every call for a vbulletin page. And if your banned email list is say "50000" chars, it means that one of your variable will have a size of 50 Kb. and it takes that much space in the server, everytime global.php is called. Improper use of server resources.. I don't know how vb3 is handling this but I think it would be much performance friendly to save such options in a seperate place and call them only when they are needed (ie in register page and in user email change page). |
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So does anyone use this e-mail ban list? Does it really bog the server down a lot? I am sort of lost on how to stop trolls.
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another way to stop the trollers is to moderate new users for a certain time period. If they don't see their post go right up, they go away pretty quick and it's fairly painless for your regulars.
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I'm using it now. I'll let you know how it goes.
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