Forums being flooded with spam

[DrMrLordX]

I've reported one of the posts, but I now realize that the extent of the spam attack is not represented by my mere report. There's a ton of the stuff in the CPU and Video Cards forums, at a minimum. Time to get out the brooms.

 

[Rngwn]

Another wave of spam is hitting the same forum with the spammer using new username. Wonder if this is bot's doing.

 

[allisolm]

About 130 of them so far today. We need an electric broom.

 

[DrMrLordX]

About 130 of them so far today. We need an electric broom.

I say we nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

 

[NTMBK]

VC&G is basically a wasteland full of useless spam at this point. (Same as usual then, arf arf.)

 

[Ancalagon44]

I've said before that we need to prevent new users from posting links, but the mods disagreed with me.

Oh well, more work for the mods to clean up.

 

[purbeast0]

programming forum is now full of nothing but spam.

And we appreciate you reporting those threads so we could take care of them - oh, wait, you didn't. You saw them and posted here instead. That doesn't help in any way.
admin allisolm

 

[DrPizza]

Ambitious little spammers - they're returning as fast as they're deleted. Please click the report post button for spam you see (but if you've reported one post by a particular spammer, you don't have to report every post by that spammer.) We check the reported posts fairly frequently & spam is relatively easy to remove (provided people don't quote it.)

Don't quote spam, please!!

 

[DrMrLordX]

Looks like you got em for now. Will report any more if they show up . . . but damn that was quite the ****storm.

 

[Dude111]

About 130 of them so far today. We need an electric broom.

If the staff doesnt mind,we need to put NEW REGISTRATIONS (Zero posters) on moderation! (Then nothing willl be seen by anyone but staff UNTIL APPROVED. (After a couple messages they usually can be trusted and added to the reg member group))

It will make it harder for staff but clearly something must be done!!



What does the staff think??

 

[Brian Stirling]

I've said before that we need to prevent new users from posting links, but the mods disagreed with me.

Oh well, more work for the mods to clean up.

And then the bot waits however long before ... spamming!

In the end new users wait and the spammers continue to spam.


Brian

 

[Ken g6]

If the staff doesnt mind,we need to put NEW REGISTRATIONS (Zero posters) on moderation! (Then nothing willl be seen by anyone but staff UNTIL APPROVED. (After a couple messages they usually can be trusted and added to the reg member group)

It will make it harder for staff but clearly something must be done!!

I think there are lots of new users who come in requesting builds or asking about parts, who might be scared off if we did that.

I've said before that we need to prevent new users from posting links, but the mods disagreed with me.

These spammers weren't really posting links. They were posting things that look like URLs, made of special characters that look like normal characters to humans but not to computers.

I think posts whose titles or contents are more than, say, 25% non-alphanumeric characters should be moderated.

 

[Dude111]

Ya maybe Ken 🙁

I guess there is no easy answer is there buddy?