I just used the auto groups ext on one of my forums where I had seen the same activity of old accounts logging back in to post spam.
As P_I expertly noted, you can set a group membership on 'days since last visit'.
I made a mod queue group with NEVER permissions for the ability to post anywhere unapproved, stopped profile edits (meaning they can't instead just edit links in to the profile or the sig) and stopped all email and PM ability.
I set membership to 700 days since the last visit as that seems reasonable.
And then bam, 27000 accounts are all secured from further attack. Problem solved and it's a rolling solution with no further intervention.
As P_I expertly noted, you can set a group membership on 'days since last visit'.
I made a mod queue group with NEVER permissions for the ability to post anywhere unapproved, stopped profile edits (meaning they can't instead just edit links in to the profile or the sig) and stopped all email and PM ability.
I set membership to 700 days since the last visit as that seems reasonable.
And then bam, 27000 accounts are all secured from further attack. Problem solved and it's a rolling solution with no further intervention.
Statistics: Posted by KevC — Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:28 pm