A New Community Manager Approaching!

Hahaha that's made my day

 

Make Unity great again.

@JamesLeeNZ for president

He's gonna build a firewall to keep the spammers out, who's gonna pay for the firewall? The spammers are gonna pay for it folks!

 

we need a moderator up in this forum , theres some serious spam going on here. all Chinese/japanese writing

 

It is usually korean or arabic. No chinese/japanese yet.

 

Lithium would solve it. Bots hate it.

 

I am really surprised at the constant amount of spam (every few hours it seems). It appears that a lot is held for moderation and the tools do allow for quick clean up. If it has been like this for a while, the mods have been doing a great job at keeping much of it off the forums.

What I have noticed is that a spammers first post is often an innocuous test, and then the flood. As far as patterns go, maybe having a limit on how many new topics a user can create in a given time frame. Maybe coupled with a threshold based on length of account or something. Something like if a user account is < week old, they can only create one or two new threads a day.

Oh... or maybe that a user's new topic count cannot exceed their reply count in threads they did not create. That would might prevent people (not spammers) creating multiple threads for the same thing. Not a perfect solution, but might keep flooding to a minimum.

 

Apparently not just bots.

 

It would also solve the problem of posts filling up the forum, because users hate it.

 

So it's as repulsive to bots as it is people? That says it all

Edit: Dammit, he served it up and everyone swung at it

 

Why not implement the somewhat new google invisible captcha.
I had spammers on my site, but when I put it, never had one again.

 

I know how to spot those before they even start, so I report those spammers if I see them in a thread. But I don't read most of the threads, so it's rare.

Not sure if anything like that happens, since they manually post first, then flood the forum with useless posts once approved.

But to prevent automation there are alternatives to CRAPTCHAs which would help, like the one where you drag a few items to their correct category.

 

Seems the best way to deal with it, if it wasn't for legal issues, is to make it when they flood your network with senseless crap is to give them a Virus lol.

But, if it wasn't for the legal issues involved at least.
Something doesn't have to be morally correct to to work as long as it works.

I'm sure, very sure if they start getting their OS deleted they will eventually stop.
Not saying it's the right way to do it, or even the direction we should go, only stating it would work.

I always give the example to people with normal situations in life about crime.
if you look at N. Korea, crime by normal people is almost non-existent, of course it still happens,
but not like it does in modern societies. Because there (the virus) or the government, will execute your entire family
for petty crimes. So people are generally under absolute control and don't break the law. Again, not to say it doesn't happen, but generally doesn't.

I would naturally assume a CPU Virus infecting your stuff for breaking the law (spamming) forums would stop you.

 

White hat, grey hat - you chose black hat

(I lean more towards black bag.)

 

Bahaha lol.

 

Fighting fire with fire? You're gonna lose that war. Badly.

http://www.guard-privacy-and-online-security.com/spam-spammers.html

In early 2005, Lycos launched the "Make Love, Not Spam" screensaver, designed to "spam the spammers". Participants downloaded the screensaver from Makelovenotspam.com, which updated the screensavers with lists of sites to attack.

When a large number of screensavers send requests at the same time, the spam web page becomes overloaded and slow, effectively allowing users to turn the tables on denial of service attackers.

...

Then, of course, the spammers retaliated. At least one of the Web sites targeted by Lycos's screensaver --Moretgage.info -- changed its Web page, forwarding requests it received to Lycos's screensaver website, Makelovenotespam.com... effectively launching a DDoS attack on the site.

 

It doesn't even necessarily have to block anything... though I agree that could be handy. Even if all it does is automatically log a report when an account makes threads too quickly that might be helpful? Instead of anyone keeping an eye out for them spammers effectively report themselves shortly after initiating the "flood" phase of their scheme.

 

Maybe in this scenario they could go in a queue for mod approval? That way no spammers but the false positives wont be as harmful?

 

That's what already happens.

--Eric

 

Does the system just miss some spammers then?

 

Never knew. Is there something specific about the spam we see which means it gets through the filter or?

 

If we knew what gets through the filter, so would the spammers.

 

Welcome younger and oldy mods!

 

Hi Blaine! Welcome. Hope to see you around here a lot!