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WTF spammers...

Seems like ever since Purch took over, the spammers have gone crazy around here. That might not be the actual cause...but it LOOKS that way.
 
BoomerD said:
Seems like ever since Purch took over, the spammers have gone crazy around here. That might not be the actual cause...but it LOOKS that way.
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From what I gather they use rather sketchy ad services, I wonder if that could possibly have anything to do with it somehow.
 
There's been an uptick in the spam from Korea the last couple days. Don't know why.
 
thejunglegod said:
LOL, the main OT page looks like HTML code. Poor mods though.
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I am watching a show and I check back 10-15 minutes later and 10 more spammers show up.
Good thing with xen-foro software is I can wipe out one guys 40+ posts with one stroke.

With vB, it was manually remove each thread. 40 posts would take at least 40 minutes. And that's just one spammer.
 
On a forum I manage I ended up implementing a a stealth moderation queue for new posters. Basically their posts don't show up for anyone except mods and themselves. So they think the post went through and move on. A mod can then approve or deny the post. When they approve it removes the stealth moderation flag for their account, if denied, it deletes all posts and the account.

I also had a spam filter at one point, it worked kinda like an email spam filter where certain keywords gave a certain amount of points and if you went over a certain amount it just auto deleted the post and the account. It would only activate for new accounts and like the first 5 posts. Somebody who knows about it could theoretically get around it though but it worked 99% of the time.
 
Look out! new wave incoming.

Do these guys expect their spam bombs to do anything?

Bots stuck in a loop?

One interesting thing is that the posts are gaining views.

Bots viewing Bot posts.
 
Yeah I wonder what the purpose of this spam is. Maybe it's some kind of communication to other people (ex: ISIS) via some kind of moon language where the posts are actually chunks of data to be decoded? Easy way of sending a secret message via an arbitrary network I guess. I recall reading something like this that Al Queda was doing using images posted on social media.
 
Purch.

Don't blame the mods. If you could get someone to eagerly work for you for free, why wouldn't you? You take what you can get and let the little things like spam floods slide. The real value here is in the amazingly high quality of the discussions, as I'm sure you've all noted. LOL
 
Red Squirrel said:
On a forum I manage I ended up implementing a a stealth moderation queue for new posters. Basically their posts don't show up for anyone except mods and themselves. So they think the post went through and move on. A mod can then approve or deny the post. When they approve it removes the stealth moderation flag for their account, if denied, it deletes all posts and the account.
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This +10
If you stop them at the gate , they will ( eventually ) go away for good. Pre approval of new registrars only gets you so far. I've been a spam hunter at a couple sites. Currently at a Debian site.

M←))♂"카지노사이트 to you to , spammers 😛
 
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