- I cant Post
- I cant Post quotes
- I got quoted in a post but it is gone.
- ...
I am going to offer the only definitive answers that there are. We recently underwent a spam attack. The spammer scanned the members list and got every known username and quoted them. this quote had the following negative effects.
- Triggered a notification email to every registered member
- Reduced server performance because of mass emails being sent
The content was amongst other things headless corps and other vulgar pictures. Our moderators did everything they could to remove this content as quickly as possible.
These moderators:
- Are purely volunteers
- Don't deserve to be subjected to this content anymore than the rest of the community
- Were strained to capacity keeping up with this effort
As a server administrator it is exclusively my responsibility to hinder all legitimate threats to this community. I took the following actions that will continue to evolve as the threat does.
- Prevent new and unregistered users from posting
- quotes
- links
- images
- from tor exit nodes
- from IP that host web services
- Blocked certain language
- Enabled our web application firewall to identify and block known patterns of attacks across the internet.
I will not go into any detail on these patterns except the following: The nature of a scripting forum sometimes is impacted by these firewall rules. There are hundreds of specific rules.
If you find you are impacted by these constraints please do the following:
- Remove all of the following from your post
If you do this and still cant post please use
pastebin for your post and email a link to it to support -at- ahkscript.org. I will review the content and make a decision on weather to find and relax a specific firewall rule or reject your post.
My apologies to those adversely affected but with limited time this is the best solution to the current crisis.
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