2010-11-16 profile contact info - Earth Empires Forum

qzjul

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Nov 16th 2010, 17:09:46

hey all;

Nuk added a cool feature I was asking for so that bots can't crawl our forums and scrape your emails; the @ symbol is now replaced by an image of an @; making it not look like an email to a bot :)

horray!

Edited By: qzjul on Aug 23rd 2013, 17:38:36
See Original Post

Finally did the signature thing.

Tin Man

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Nov 16th 2010, 17:42:18

sexy

Tin Man

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Nov 16th 2010, 17:42:32

Marshal

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Nov 16th 2010, 19:40:41

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iZarcon

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Nov 18th 2010, 8:20:31

there's some good javascript examples to fool bots as well.

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Fooglmog

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Nov 18th 2010, 8:34:02

Just works in profiles, not in posts?

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Detmer

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Nov 18th 2010, 15:04:00

well I noticed this in TAN's sig so I dunno... maybe it just has to be in something that looks like an email?

@

Detmer

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Nov 18th 2010, 15:04:22

well those both seemed to do it =P

NukEvil

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Nov 18th 2010, 15:08:33

Yeah, it'll only trigger it if there's something that looks like an e-mail in a post or sig. Then, it'll normally do it to ALL the at symbols in the post or sig. If there's just lots of @@@@@@ next to each other, it shouldn't trigger it, even if there's an e-mail address ( ) around. An extra kilobyte or so never hurt anyone...

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Akula

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Nov 19th 2010, 21:03:20

nice one nukey
@_@

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Fooglmog

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Nov 23rd 2010, 7:48:34

-Fooglmog
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Fooglmog

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Nov 23rd 2010, 7:49:08

-Fooglmog
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Fooglmog

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Nov 23rd 2010, 7:49:52

Why does it not work for me?

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NukEvil

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Nov 23rd 2010, 14:38:16

Mostly due to the carriage return right after the address.

Marshal

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Nov 23rd 2010, 19:27:10

Fooglmog

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Nov 28th 2010, 12:22:08

So it will work if I say in the middle of a sentence?

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Fooglmog

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Nov 28th 2010, 12:23:50

Was that too long? What about Will that work?

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iZarcon

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Nov 28th 2010, 15:12:18

heh. Why not just replace all @ with the equivalent html special char? can even replace them with a tiny snippet of javascript that displays the html special char.

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NukEvil

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Nov 28th 2010, 20:26:19

Because that's not going to help the fact that Fooglmog won't put his sig in an actual sig. I'm not going to go around, tweaking the regex for every little possible nuance that someone comes up with that disables its functionality.

iZarcon

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Nov 29th 2010, 14:21:50

hmmz. I thought it would be beneficial for everyone if even forum posts(not just sigs) changed as well. i mean, someone says 'post you email!' so you do... why does that mean u should be penalised for not putting it in a sig?

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NukEvil

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Nov 29th 2010, 14:36:47

The forum posts DO change as well. It's just that in Foog's case, the carriage returns after his posts before his 'sig' is somehow not meshing with the regex to do with an email address. However, I'm sure there are other regexes that could account for that. I'm not very good at them, so if you have any pointers, that'd be great.

Pang

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Nov 29th 2010, 16:59:51

(\w+@[a-zA-Z_]+?\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6})

shamelessly stolen from the web :p

regex to find e-mail addresses already exists (that's how the bots steal addresses ;-) )

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NukEvil

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Dec 3rd 2010, 14:46:41

iZarcon's suggested another method of masking emails, and his method gives you clickable links if you have javascript enabled. So thank iZarcon for lending his services.

iZarcon

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Dec 3rd 2010, 14:56:56

cool! just makes the experience seamless.

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qzjul

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Dec 3rd 2010, 18:43:18

Finally did the signature thing.

Tertius

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Dec 4th 2010, 3:53:09

I thought I saw one the other day, but on this post, every email links to the mailto: so did something change or is my browser not cooperating?

iZarcon

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Dec 4th 2010, 14:52:51

Tertius:

Originally posted by NukEvil:

iZarcon's suggested another method of masking emails, and his method gives you clickable links if you have javascript enabled. So thank iZarcon for lending his services.

if u have javascript turned off, it shows the image. but with javascript on, it still shows the @ but conceals it from bots.

Using either method, if someone wanted to harvest emails from our forums specifically, they could, but for the most part (as in 99%+) most bots just look for the simple normal email address across as many pages as they can.

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Marshal1

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Jun 3rd 2013, 19:36:16

post your bonuses to general talk.

galleri: fluff off marshal

archaic: FFS when Marshal has stood out as maybe the brightest person on the whole thread . . . fluff me, I'm going to go smoke a joint and reevaluate some fluff

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