THE SPAMMERS ARE BACK
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beenthere
September 21, 2011 5:16:04 AM
thesnappyfingers
September 21, 2011 5:33:23 AM
Rizlla
September 21, 2011 7:24:19 AM
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NuclearShadow
September 21, 2011 10:53:43 AM
Proximon said:
There's really no need. We are all over it, however it may be hours before we get to some... thousands a day atm.Up at the top of a post in grey letters you will see a report function. If you see one of these in a place that doesn't usually have them, please do use the report button.
To me it seems rather useless to hunt down and delete these posts and banning of the accounts. They will simply keep coming back. But I do have a suggestion....
I have pondered a way to get rid of trolls, jerks, and spammers completely that will take little effort. Let's say that in this post I attack you personally, say awful and unfounded things about you. Naturally you would respond in banning me right? Problem is I could easily make a new account and even if my IP is banned it only takes seconds to get around that. I could just come back over and over and continue to harass you. The solution would be to create a limbo like state. The moderator throws the user into this limbo. The user is able to login, respond to threads, and even make new threads but the trick is that no other users actually see the content this known trouble maker posts. If you do not alert the community of this new function those who are punished by it will have no idea why they are being ignored and will eventually just move on.
This could also work for spammers. Posting known spam url links would automatically throw them into limbo no moderator required. If by any chance a new link pops up simply add it to the list. This way the spammers think their messages are getting through when in reality no one is actually seeing it but them. This would greatly reduce the spam and those that do make it through will be quickly thrown into limbo as well. It doesn't matter how many accounts they make because once they hit submit for the post
they are already thrown into limbo because of the contents of the post.
Mystre316
September 21, 2011 11:29:20 AM
christop
September 21, 2011 1:30:01 PM
wanamingo
September 21, 2011 2:24:23 PM
dalmvern
September 21, 2011 3:07:04 PM
mavroxur
September 21, 2011 3:25:11 PM
wanamingo
September 21, 2011 4:53:28 PM
beenthere
September 21, 2011 5:09:19 PM
wanamingo
September 21, 2011 5:12:27 PM
If you guys have cruised by the Entertainment forum have you seen the spam for movies and music from odd places? Are these guys getting paid to do this or do they have bots that just auto post in hundreds of forums the same message?
What motivates these guys to spam? How much money do you get per post etc?
What motivates these guys to spam? How much money do you get per post etc?
beenthere
September 24, 2011 3:52:45 PM
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/314508-10-golf-expe...
is this the next generation of spammer? its rather good if it is, they've put some effort into it.
is this the next generation of spammer? its rather good if it is, they've put some effort into it.
mrface said:
You should see how many of my troops can not do command line/prompt/scripting/non-gui... Saddening really.
For every argument for GUI, I have two for granularity through command line/console... Alas, I am fighting an uphill battle.
[/and yes it dates me, damn old timers can "get with the new GUI"
]I know exactly what you mean, brother. Been there, done that, then showed them how to fix the problem myself. Was even asked by a so-called "expert" how a guy of my rank knew how to do something....he then had a humbling experience.....
ojas
September 26, 2011 1:23:46 PM
wanamingo
September 26, 2011 1:56:23 PM
ojas said:
Um...i'm no expert, just a suggestion...if you ban a MAC address, doesn't that effectively ban all IPs originating from the same device? I mean, assuming that dynamic IPs are involved.+1 to NuclearShadow's idea as well...
You do realize how easy it is to change a MAC address, right? This will work exactly once. Same with IPs.
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