I've blacklisted all of Tor on a firewall level. I'm sure you're all savvy enough to figure out how to circumvent it and still browse anonymously if you want. If you can't, then I don't really care.
I might take the block off later, but for now all the retardation / spam was coming from behind Tor, so, it's an easy fix for now since I don't have the time to implement something better.
>>4 For now. It's just because this BBS isn't that stable and I really hate writing Perl. I'll unblock it later on, but come on, you're /prog/riders, Tor can't be your only option.
I just spoke to the dedicated server people and the order has gone through, so I'll migrate this hopefully today or tomorrow and then things should be better in general.
Did you really have to delete that one thread regrading tor and freenet? It had some good information and links in it. You could of just deleted the posts by that cp/tor guy.
>>6 Did I really delete it? Sorry, I didn't mean to. I just pressed "delete all posts by this IP" to be quick, and I guess the guy who started the thread had used the same node and it wiped that too.
I don't have anyone that I could name as janitor, though. I speak to no one. Maybe if one of you wants to do it we could give it a trial run, I don't know.
>>10 /prog/ used to be good. But it always lacked admin drama. What we need is an almighty moderator who keeps an eye on what's happening 24/7. Maybe something stupid needs to be deleted? Maybe a courtesan posted a suggestion and he's expecting an answer?
>>11 I'd really rather not cause drama. All I will delete is spam. I've always disliked forums where the admin has unwarranted self importance and goes crazy for the littlest things, it only ends up breeding a community of sycophants and circlejerkers.
I'll very rarely delete something that isn't spam. I keep an eye on what's happening more or less 24/7.
I sure hope the Tor people don't think that the site went down, as I literally just blocked requests from Tor completely, it times out.
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Anonymous2013-09-05 9:57
Tor is now unbanned. It should be harder to lock up the board now.
Oh, and, in the future I'll just blacklist Tor in the software if need be instead of doing it from iptables. You'll still be able to browse, just not post (temporarily). It may have seemed that the site was down, but it wasn't, I just scraped the exit node list from the Tor Control Protocol and added a DROP ALL list to iptables for every one of those IPs.
>>15 It would have been been matter just to make a cron/daemon that removed posts form the spammmer, since it was a sinple regex. If he randomizes the responce, at the least the timing trick would have prevented it.
>>16 I didn't have time to do that when he was actually spamming, I was at work and basically removing his posts until I got tired of it and just canned all of Tor.
The problems listed here won't be solved without dedicated staff or the distBB.
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Anonymous2013-09-05 13:57
>>19 We don't need janitors or powerful admin or babysitters. You're the same idiot who brought /q/ to /prog/ and complained should derailing /g/ro threads, aren't you? Go back to /jp/ and suck meido cock you fucking moron.
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Anonymous2013-09-05 14:00
>>19 The problems listed here are nothing in comparison to >>22-kun's sweet sweet dubs.
>>24 dubs are in short supply and high demand >>24-kun!
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Admin2013-09-06 11:08
Getting pretty tired of this. Tor is blacklisted again.
You can all go fuck yourselves, honestly. Stop shitposting and pretending to have free reign and going spastic, then getting insulted when I call you a nigger.
How about this, next time you shitpost, since you can't use Tor now, I'll just make your router explode? That better?
Set this up in the space of a day while having to do many other things, got a server immune to DDoS which always plagues these types of sites, etc, doing this all for nothing other than wanting a proper /prog/, and you shit yourself when a few posts are accidentally deleted on a software that stores everything in flat files and parses them with regex.
Go somewhere else, then, and set up your own server.
Its kool. I know Perl can be frustrating. Just the post prevention in a minute or so is ok. Meh, do you know of any other means of preventing the spam although, than creating ephemeral Pseudonyms? IP address banning is really lame, and useless. Especially if you are forced to be on a proxy, e.g. cell phones).
>>32 I'm trying to implement spam detection that isn't based on IP. I have a few ideas. I'm definitely not going to implement them in Perl, though. I'm just trying to edit this software to make the board more robust in general.
I'll implement proper spam detection / prevention in the Scheme textboard, which will be done soon, hopefully.
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Anonymous2013-09-06 13:31
I Got it! Ephemeral keys/signatures that are required to post, and are kept per month. An internal server handle is made with the IP address and key to verify the post, and differentiate you from another in the same VPN. Of course the key will be salted with IP address.
User's Only see the name the person provided, if any. How does that sound?
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Anonymous2013-09-06 13:50
Admin could you please create a GPG keypair so I can tell you my VPS IP I would like to be unblocked? It's blocked because it's on Tor's DNSBL but it doesn't allow exit traffic (incidentally I also got banned on world4ch due to the same thing).