Anubis wrote:
Stop users from posting more than a certain amount of topics a day as a precaution.
While this might work, it can be circumvented. More on that below.
Anubis wrote:
Stop people from posting in less than 30 seconds.
Again, good idea, but....see below.
Anubis wrote:
Put code verification on and make it so that people can't register with the same email twice. People should have to verify the email to join. I think email verification and a one account per email address approach wouldn't hurt. Search for proxy servers and ban them. (
www.h4ck-you.org)
Verification is a hassle, but not a good security measure. Preventing multiple accounts with one e-mail address won't do any good, since you can sign up for a yahoo account in less than ten minutes. Proxy server banning would
help, but it could also prevent some people from accessing. Might be a necessary evil, could also be useful to set up a poll to see how many legitimate users access through a proxy server.
Banning all proxy access is about the only method I can think of that would do noticeable good, but it could be difficult to track down all the proxy servers that are freely available. It could also, as I already mentioned, cut legitimate users off from using the site.
Hmmm..came up with something. Preventing the number of accounts made from a given IP might help. If proxies are used, the same one couldn't be used for ten different accounts. Also, having some sort of post requirement for new users within 24 hours might be a good plan. No posts within 24 hours, account goes away. Posts in random discussion or the RP forum not counting towards this. Flagging people with new accounts (color or something) for the first 24 hours would also make it easy for mods to see whether or not the posts are anything more than spam, or one-word responses to get around the rules.
True, all of this could be circumvented if someone was dedicated enough, which is likely the case, but it might help.
