spammers

anykey · Post by **anykey** » Sat 20 Jan, 2007 8:29 pm

We've got some spammers...
I'm pretty sure they're real people, not bots.

Post by **kv83** » Sat 20 Jan, 2007 10:50 pm

How come you think so?

Banned them btw.

Post by **Dwedit** » Sat 20 Jan, 2007 11:40 pm

Spammer and human never belong in the same sentence.

hop · Post by **hop** » Sat 20 Jan, 2007 11:53 pm

Dwedit wrote:Spammer and human never belong in the same sentence.

Wrong, you can even get paid for it.

Post by **Dwedit** » Sat 20 Jan, 2007 11:57 pm

Once you start spamming, you've trashed your soul to the point that you are no longer a human, and now should just get on the trains to the concentration camps.

anykey · Post by **anykey** » Sun 21 Jan, 2007 2:30 am

kv83 wrote:How come you think so?

Because I can smell their fear.

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Sun 21 Jan, 2007 11:41 am

why do they spam this on a programmers forum anyway, its not like we will look at that crap, they'd have better chances at, say, a WoW forum

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Sun 21 Jan, 2007 12:01 pm

They don't care if you look at it at all. It's to boost google ratings. When google bots crawl those pages they notice those links, and so google then thinks that that link is more important than others and will increase its chances of getting raised on google searches.

The only reason any of them try to make it look like a human posted is to delay deletion. I doubt this spammer even knows what this forum is, its just a bot.

Edit: I enabled user activation and got user shield.

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Sun 21 Jan, 2007 4:44 pm

its still spamming, well the other one is

and I had an idea, its probably not good but I rarely have a good idea..
What if there was to be a special group of people with the power to delete posts (meant to delete spam quickly)?
ofcourse many would seek to abuse such power, so it should be a select group of reasonable people.. like, say, Timendus (if he wants to and everyone agrees

) and AnyKey doesn't seem to like spam either

Homestar · Post by **Homestar** » Sun 21 Jan, 2007 5:58 pm

About how many 'spams' do you think this forum get's a month? (I see it being discussed more and more, is it becoming a serious problem?)

It seems to be kept under good control as I haven't seen any. *kudos to the mods*

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Sun 21 Jan, 2007 6:03 pm

I would say that any spam at all is too much, but you can't avoid all spam..
It could be deleted faster though, and it annoys me every time I look at a thread because I think there is something new and then it turns out to be spam

hop · Post by **hop** » Sun 21 Jan, 2007 6:23 pm

phpBB mods to obstruct bots are silly, bot makers can go to phpBB.com too. Write your own protection for the win.

You are posting your first post and it contains link or image located outside this domain. Please confirm this action by selecting the appropriate radio button:
( ) Do not proceed.
( ) Proceed.

The few humans who post links or images in their first post can simply check the right box whereas a bot won't get it.

cartj · Post by **cartj** » Sun 21 Jan, 2007 6:54 pm

I would say that any spam at all is too much, but you can't avoid all spam..
It could be deleted faster though, and it annoys me every time I look at a thread because I think there is something new and then it turns out to be spam

I agree with king harold. I still see about four spammers out there that all appear to be from the same place.

silver calc · Post by **silver calc** » Sun 21 Jan, 2007 6:56 pm

you could block their IP addresses, since it seems they come from the same place (or a few of the same places).

Edit: he he, read the second post.

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Sun 21 Jan, 2007 7:57 pm

hop wrote:phpBB mods to obstruct bots are silly, bot makers can go to phpBB.com too. Write your own protection for the win.

You are posting your first post and it contains link or image located outside this domain. Please confirm this action by selecting the appropriate radio button:
( ) Do not proceed.
( ) Proceed.

The few humans who post links or images in their first post can simply check the right box whereas a bot won't get it.

Yeah we did that at revsoft and I think kv83 did it here. And it worked for a while but it doesn't take 5 minutes for a bot maker to implement that.

User activation and User shield work really well at revsoft. User shield prevents my forum babies from seeing those nasty unactivated spam bots.

blocking ips doesn't work to well since most are probably behind proxies.

I doubt kv83 is gonna be jumping at the option of having a user group with deletion abitlies...