Get Rid of these Spammers Already!
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Shadow703793
June 19, 2010 10:08:29 PM
Seriously, please IP ban jianmei73 and dingdongh654. These two morons have been spamming the comment section a lot for the past few days.
For example:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/liquidware-beagle-diy-table...
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Forth-Valley-Royal-Robots-S...
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/quintetto-musical-fish-tank...
Please ban this moron. I'v reported every singe one of those posts and still nothing.
For example:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/liquidware-beagle-diy-table...
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Forth-Valley-Royal-Robots-S...
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/quintetto-musical-fish-tank...
Please ban this moron. I'v reported every singe one of those posts and still nothing.
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Shadow703793
June 20, 2010 2:51:46 AM
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They've been bugging me for ages but I've dealt with them now. I had to borrow an account that is able to ban from TG comments to do it though.
@aford: We can't stop them posting to TG comments with our current privileges. There's something weird with the permissions system and something "special" seems to be needed to get privileges there.
EDIT: Actually I could only rid the new of them, not the reviews and other article types.
@aford: We can't stop them posting to TG comments with our current privileges. There's something weird with the permissions system and something "special" seems to be needed to get privileges there.
EDIT: Actually I could only rid the new of them, not the reviews and other article types.
Shadow703793
June 22, 2010 7:22:19 PM
Shadow703793
June 25, 2010 9:01:47 PM
I leave all of the smacking around alerts for aford ... we have to feed him or he goes crazy.
I hate spam.
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shrapnel_indie
December 1, 2010 9:30:26 AM
Typically, the way that works is through IP Forbid, where you basically disallow interaction with the forum from certain IP addresses or ranges. The tricky part is that many of these spammers intentionally use proxied addresses, or spam from areas that make it impossible to do a range IP ban without taking out whole chunks of a country.
It's something our devs are working on making better.
It's something our devs are working on making better.
shrapnel_indie
December 1, 2010 5:24:26 PM
jpishgar said:
Typically, the way that works is through IP Forbid, where you basically disallow interaction with the forum from certain IP addresses or ranges. The tricky part is that many of these spammers intentionally use proxied addresses, or spam from areas that make it impossible to do a range IP ban without taking out whole chunks of a country. It's something our devs are working on making better.
Thx for the reply. I know someone who has their own forum using SMF (Small Machines Forum) software and a mod called httpBl which checks the Project Honey pot database. They say that the mod httpbl has blocked 3075 spammers and bots in about 2 months and the bots and spammers attempting to join their forum has dropped to zero from 5 a day.
Might be something for the devs to look into.
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