New post in an archive topic - ?
- Doug_Elliott
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- BGuttman
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I saw that. I can't figure out what he's talking about either.
- Doug_Elliott
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I don't care what he's talking about - nobody should be able to post in the archive
- Matt_K
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One of the common bots for phpBB boards stores every post that is publicly available and then ranks them based on how comprehensible they are and then uses them to get a foothold in sites like ours. Basically they just paste sentences that may have similar keywords. Obviously in this case it's a bot that doesn't realize that we have an archive side to the site. I thought I fixed the permissions... will look now. It should be that nobody can post there except admins now.
- Matt_K
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Fixed. Yeah so the addon that we have happens to put people in a group called "archive" if it detects blatant spam. However, I had a group called "archive" which is where all the users I made to post the TTF posts were from. This group can also post to the TTF_Archives for obvious reasons. So I just made a new group, "spammy spammers that spam" which it now puts these users into.