Miscellaneous Hacks - Spammers Not Welcome Message in Russian

What is it?
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It displays a message image in Russian on the register.php page stating that "Spammers are not welcome here." I only created this modification after seeing a ton of spammers coming from the Russian Federation, and we have in place a lot of tools to stop these spammers from trying to join. The hope is that this message will prevent a lot of wasted time and resources for all involved. Enjoy!

Release history:
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v1.0: 21 October 2008 - Initial release

V1.1: 22 October 2008 - Improved on the translation.
If you installed the v1.0, then please download the zip file again
and replace the original "no_spammers.png" on your server with the latest one.
In other words, to upgrade just follow step 1.


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* STEP ONE *
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Upload "no_spammers.png" to <forumroot>/images/misc


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* STEP TWO (register_rules): *
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Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Search in templates -> register_rules -> Edit

FIND (TOWARD THE VERY BOTTOM):
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</label>

ADD IMMEDIATELY AFTER:
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<br /><br /><center><img src="images/misc/no_spammers.png"></center>

IT SHOULD LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS WHEN DONE:
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<div><label for="cb_rules_agree"><input type="checkbox" name="agree" id="cb_rules_agree" value="1" />
<strong><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[read_agree_abide_by_rules]</phrase></strong></label>
<br /><br /><center><img src="images/misc/no_spammers.png"></center></div>

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* STEP THREE *
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Click "Installed" so I can win a trip to Tahiti!

[glorify]

Ty

[nerofix]

lol this is funny x)

30% from our community is russian, but we never had problems with russian spam. Our spam is 99% american. I think we are going to block America, this useless country

[ogameclub]

Bad idea. I like Russian.

[Boosted Panda]

how about chinese too!

[glorify]

There is a Chinese-Korean Blocklist, Exploited Servers Blocklist, and Nigerian Blocklist in addition to the Russian at that site.

[Bill from Cleve]

What a great Idea! Installation took 3 seconds and looks great.

Can I have you're premission to juice up the graphic file with some harsh American metaphors?

Russian Spammers are awful human beings.

[Boosted Panda]

Originally Posted by Bill from Cleve

What a great Idea! Installation took 3 seconds and looks great.

Can I have you're premission to juice up the graphic file with some harsh American metaphors?

Russian Spammers are awful human beings.

In Soviet Russia Spam Spams You.

[segwayon]

Please feel free to alter the graphic to suit your particular needs. All people of good will are welcome at my board. It's just that the majority of my board's spammers are coming from the Russian Federation, and I don't like the idea of blocking whole countries. Whether the use of my modification helps prevent spam or not is certainly debatable, but at least the spammers are on notice.

By the way, I highly recommend this mod which blocks known spammers from registering:
vbStopForumSpam - known spammer lookup for new registrations.

And this mod which blocks bots based on how quickly they register:
Stop the Registration Bots

[Ljusya]

It's just that the majority of my board's spammers are coming from the Russian Federation

Are you sure that they are real peoples from Russia? I thought they are bots with russian ip-s only And they don`t read text on images