VC&G got hit with MOA(Spam)

[gorobei]

didnt go past the 5th page of it but literally pages and pages of korean spam. hit the amd sub forum too. oddly the nv sub was spared :hmm:

can we get some ban hammers and pruning chainsaws?

 

[Zodiark1593]

didnt go past the 5th page of it but literally pages and pages of korean spam. hit the amd sub forum too. oddly the nv sub was spared :hmm:

can we get some ban hammers and pruning chainsaws?

I'd say a nuke or three might be the more apt solution. Just wipe the first 5 pages, threads lost is merely collateral damage.

Good lord, some new 7 threads created in the span of one minute. Wonder if the spammer is some sort of mutant octopus.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Wonder if the spammer is some sort of mutant octopus.

Nah, just your average Korean RTS gamer... J/K.

 

[RampantAndroid]

It isn't just 5 pages. It's over 23 pages (one thread past 23 for me)...

and then there's some in the AMD sub forum.

 

[NTMBK]

23 pages of spam, mother of god.

 

[Ryan Smith]

Multiple tactical nuclear bans have been applied. The total fatality count is 900 threads.

I can safely say in over a decade at AnandTech I have never seen anything like this.

 

[balloonshark]

Multiple tactical nuclear bans have been applied. The total fatality count is 900 threads.

I can safely say in over a decade at AnandTech I have never seen anything like this.

As a mod on a very small and nearly dead forum I salute whoever did the janitorial work :thumbsup:

 

[allisolm]

As a mod on a very small and nearly dead forum I salute whoever did the janitorial work :thumbsup:

That would be Ryan. The rest of us were sleeping the sleep of the just. () 1018 threads I count by the time the dust cleared. A herculean task getting rid of them, indeed.

 

[RampantAndroid]

More it seems: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2446376

 

[RampantAndroid]

And VC&G is back to what it was last night.

 

[Ryan Smith]

When in doubt, use more nukes.

 

[DigDog]

wow 900 threads.. respect.

 

[Zodiark1593]

We got some moar spam again. Apparently, Koreans don't like video cards very much. Perhaps they're tired of making them just to get beat on by gamers?

 

[PhonakV30]

http://forums.anandtech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8

Please remove all!

 

[PhonakV30]

New User : polx12 , Apparently he's back, lol! Can you ban IP ? He ruins entire "Video Cards and Graphics"

 

[WelshBloke]

Would it be possible to block posts that are mostly in non latin alphabet?

 

[gorobei]

DennisFog also spamming, cant tell if he is part of the bot or just a trolling copycat. he did hit the NV subforum so at least he is being equal opportunity after only hitting amd sub the first time. he also made a thread here in the technical forum issues, ironic or trolling you decide.

 

[Techhog]

DennisFog also spamming, cant tell if he is part of the bot or just a trolling copycat. he did hit the NV subforum so at least he is being equal opportunity after only hitting amd sub the first time. he also made a thread here in the technical forum issues, ironic or trolling you decide.

Whatever the case is, they should all be immediately IP banned, no questions asked, even if they only copied the post once. Of course, IP bans don't do crap these days but whatever.

 

[Ken g6]

Would it be possible to block posts that are mostly in non latin alphabet?

:thumbsup: It seems like there should be one or more technical solutions to this. I'd suggest that any new member (with <25 posts) should get flagged and temporarily banned for posting five or more new threads (not counting posts replying to threads) in one day. Anyone who does that is probably either a spammer or a new account by somebody who was banned from OT or P&N.

 

[Zodiark1593]

Oh goodie, spammers attacking VC&G and CPU forums now. Feels like a Zergling rush.

Edit: All that spam got cleaned up in the time I took to make this post? Spammer stirred the sleeping Mods, now comes the Eraser Rain.

Btw, excellent work to the mods.

 

[DigDog]

when i was playing DAoC, we had quite a lot of spammers, so i put this suggestion to the devs:
"if a message contains [blocked word] then auto-ban the player"

it took them a couple weeks to code it, but when they did, the spam stopped immediately.

for example, we had a guy last night promoting what .. "viod.ch" or something like that; for ease of this discussion, let's say games.com

when anyone writes the string games.com, then suspend the account.

they are all weird foreign websites and i bet no legit AT user has ever typed that; and even if they do, when an admin comes around they can unban them. at worst, a brief nuisance.


this has the advantage that you only need to block spam FOR one source, not FROM one source, just once.

so if for example, chinaproduct.com asks their employees to spam AT, you don't need to manually ban every account, just ban that phrase once.



or just prevent the forum from creating the thread if there is the "forbidden phrase" in the post.
or even better (inspired by Titanfall), make the thread invisible to anyone except the spammer.

 

[Zodiark1593]

Could have a setup where new accounts must be manually approved. Threads can still be made, but are invisible to everyone but the new user until the account is approved.

 

[cabri]

Could have a setup where new accounts must be manually approved. Threads can still be made, but are invisible to everyone but the new user until the account is approved.

Extensive overhead for the Mods:|

 

[PhonakV30]

another user : parkchan , in forums.anandtech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8

 

[gorobei]

they are at it again, a handfull in vcg and 1 in amd video card
user: chalexlee10
[update] also in cpu/oc.

as much as its never been ATforums style, maybe some sort of upvote/thumbsup system to filter new users might be necessary?