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Main => General Discussion => Topic started by: Corey Cooper on November 10, 2008, 06:58:15 PM
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Thanks to everyone who reports the spam posts.
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must be the worst part of running a forums, aye?
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It's certainly not very fun, but we've been pretty fortunate thus far. Not a lot of spam, and active users who report it quickly.
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I probably should have reported those posts, rather than make silly comments....
I'll do it the correct way next time.
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who'dja piss off there cory, you are getting a massive infestation!!!
BTW, I wish I could meet these spammers in a dark alley I hate them sooo bad...
good luck on this my friend
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Just reported about 5-8 spam posts. Strange as there are normally none to speak off. Keep up the good work Corey
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I dunno, but I think we just doubled our spam posts overnight! I hope we didn't make it onto some kind of list out there...
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I just noticed the "report to moderator" link at the bottom of the post.... handy
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Good news this week.
The number of unwanted, offensive and misleading e-mails sent across the globe plummeted by about two-thirds, to a mere 60 billion or so a day by Thursday, according to spam filtering companies
A ragtag band of researchers pulled off the unprecedented coup of drastically cutting the spam volume by adopting a new strategy: going after mainstream U.S. companies that can unknowingly help spammers, identity thieves and child porn purveyors by carrying their traffic on the Internet.
It's a start
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60 Billion eh jeez they are scummers
I have my own forum on smf and this was posted on there support pages a couple of days ago.
Gives some measures to maybe help or slow them down a bit.
I for one wouldnt mind an extra login or verification screen if it was needed just so the bar stewards didint win!
Click here (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=273816.0;topicseen)
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Thanks verbalvolley. I took the opportunity a few days ago when this started to upgrade the forums, but had a problem going from version 1.1.5 to 1.1.7. I'll have to do the upgrade manually and I just haven't had a chance to do so yet. Looks like there are some good options in that topic for minimizing the attacks. I'll see what I can manage this weekend.
Once again, thanks to everyone who is keeping an eye on the forums and reporting the spam posts. I've been keeping a closer eye myself and trying to eliminate it as fast as I can. The email notifications of reported spam help me to delete it more quickly.
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hee hee, would ya be pissed if I reported your post up here??? ^
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Alright, the forums have been upgraded and I added the recaptcha verification system. Hopefully this will significantly reduce the spam. Thanks again to everyone for reporting the spam posts.
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I feel for you. I run a forum and the guy hosting it won't upgrade my software. I have set it so I manually have to activate each user before they post, and if they don't fill out their profile I assume they are spammers. But until he upgrades I can only delete one account at a time! Not fun when they sign up with thousands of accounts!!!!