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#34 Sep 12 2014 at 9:02 AM Rating: Excellent

Xsarus

10,601 posts

Most of the time the spam filter (whatever it's doing) stops them before they get to this many posts. The problem here is that I and all the other admins have buttons to ban users, and then move their posts to spammer hell. These buttons stop working when you get above a certain post count, so we don't have the ability to do anything to this guy beyond muting him and nuking posts one at a time. Kao or DF or someone on that level is needed to actually fix this problem.

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#35 Sep 12 2014 at 9:02 AM Rating: Excellent

__DEL__1657498899608

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Ugh. Usually I can clear these up within a few seconds, but this one I had to manually Nuke 45 posts Smiley: mad

Forum will look empty until Kaolian comes in to sweep the nuked posts into the dustbin.

#36 Sep 12 2014 at 9:04 AM Rating: Excellent

Jophiel

Liberal Conspiracy

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I'm not criticizing anyone's work here, just expressing amusement at how tenacious they are in their desire to spam this particular subforum.

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Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.

#37 Sep 12 2014 at 9:20 AM Rating: Good

__DEL__1646612177739

Guru

13,251 posts

Can you implement CAPTCHA for the first 10 posts on new accounts, and maybe a time limit between posts for those under 50 posts or something?

#38 Sep 12 2014 at 9:25 AM Rating: Excellent

Jophiel

Liberal Conspiracy

TILT

At this point, it might be easier to just make a Black Magic & Indian Love Specialist forum.

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Belkira wrote:

Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.

#39 Sep 12 2014 at 9:32 AM Rating: Excellent

__DEL__1646612177739

Guru

13,251 posts

Maybe they'd spam it with video game links.

#40 Sep 12 2014 at 9:42 AM Rating: Good

__DEL__1636935913888

Sage

27,272 posts

Spoonless wrote:

Can you implement CAPTCHA for the first 10 posts on new accounts, and maybe a time limit between posts for those under 50 posts or something?

I suggested an increasing time limit for threads before, nobody needs or wants to make half a dozen threads within an hour or so after all.

#41 Sep 13 2014 at 11:54 AM Rating: Excellent

Kaolian

Leet Haxör

29,919 posts

Sir Xsarus wrote:

Most of the time the spam filter (whatever it's doing) stops them before they get to this many posts. The problem here is that I and all the other admins have buttons to ban users, and then move their posts to spammer hell. These buttons stop working when you get above a certain post count, so we don't have the ability to do anything to this guy beyond muting him and nuking posts one at a time. Kao or DF or someone on that level is needed to actually fix this problem.

LockeColeMA wrote:

Ugh. Usually I can clear these up within a few seconds, but this one I had to manually Nuke 45 posts Smiley: mad

Forum will look empty until Kaolian comes in to sweep the nuked posts into the dustbin.

The current threshhold might be a bit too low. We'll see about bumping that up some. It really shouldn't even have to be there at all, since anyone we give admin stuffs to is supposed to be a trusted keeper of the integrity of the site. But, there have been some incidents in the past that makes it a necessty. We usually catch the spammers anyways before they hit that many posts. but at the same time they are activly learning our online habits, such as they are. I like to think that my pattern confuses the hell out of them sometimes heh. I know that at least a few of their spambots have been real people, since I've recieved replies to some of the less than civil PM's I have sent them. Which is actually kind of hilariously annoying.

I think this is all about search engine manipulation, and someone who is particularily bad at it. Even in the bad days, we were banning the stupid spammers faster than search engines were spidering the spam, so it never even really gave them any benifit at all. I wouldn't put it past one of our competitors paying someone to come annoy us, but the content of the spam is just too dumb to be something like that. The Kitchen jerks, blahblah vastchicken spammmers, fake ID spammers and "hey watch this movie, no really it's totally not a virus" spammers are all the same people. It's just wierd,

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