New Members not being Listed

New Member Joined: Feb 08, 2006 Posts: 14

Hi guys, Me again,
I have a question. I have been having a couple of "members" regestering with the website however they are not coming up on the "latest member" or in the "membership List"

I know they are not legit members as first of they showed up as being from russia now they some up as being from South Korea.
They use the same name every time with numbers after them. Like vasily5671 and alex6570.
they are going thru the "Your account new user" and then the "Your account" with out even going to the index.php/home page first.

How are they doing this / how can I stop then besides blocking IP's as they seem to be going around this. And has anyone else had this done to them?

Cheer
Coops

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:18 am

What are they actually doing once they log in?

Are you using a YA mod, like CNB YA, or Approve Membership?

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:23 am

From everything else that has been posted in the forums here recently, this sounds like automated bots registering.
There does not seem to be a clear definitve way of defeating this at the moment but some things you may consider;
Temporarily turning on account authorisation through admin instead of user
Ensure security graphic check is enable for ALL
Banning their email address' in Forum Admin -User Admin -> Ban Control

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:32 am

Guardian is probably right.

It could be that the bot is registering then going to YA to try and log in, but because the account has not been activated yet they can't log in and therefore they won't appear in the membership list.

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:42 am

Actually I may have missed the point of your post - thanks jakec for the hint Wink

Provided you have registration set to 'user' when new users register, their details are held in the nuke_temp_users table until they click on the activation link in the confirmation email that is sent out, at which time they get moved to nuke_users and their account becomes active.
If users are registering but not getting added to the memberlist there are several explanations;
1. They did not use the activation link within 24 hours of the confirmation email being sent.
2. They did not get the confirmation email (and therefore 1 above applies)
3. The email address they provided was invalid (1 and 2 above applies)
4. The registration was done through some automated process so 1 and 2 above SHOULD apply.

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:05 am

You explained it so much better! Wink

Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6432

Just so you know, the link between Forums Ban Control and registration isn't there by default. You have to tweak it to do that.

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:21 am

Hey guys... sorry for the time its taken for me to reply.
Had to do a reformat on the PC. :S

Anyway. I think You guys might be right. I'm thinking that they are Bots.

However I have deleted thier accounts and removed them from all parts of the website/membership.

But they are still getting into the YA and logging in. But they still don't show up anywhere.
I don't understand it. But they only visit YA and new sign ups.

Cheers
Coops

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:31 am

This is probably because they are using an invalid email address and not therefore getting the 'activation link' in the email or the amil itself (which they wouldnt if it was a bot).
As a consequence they should remain in the nuke_users_temp table.