Spambots

fermi

11 in 8 mins actually

JJ_Egan

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/68803521#Comment_68803521

Mandelbrot

MSE Megan,
Why are some of the spambots PPRd, and others merely have all their posts removed?
That suggests, to me, a certain inconsistency in approach.

fermi

Just from observation seems to me that PPR banned usergroup is set by human intervention, while a separate unlabelled banned/restricted usergroup is set when more 'automatic' measures happened?

Former_MSE_Megan

Some of the bots get caught by the team and PPRd straight away and some get all their posts hit by the spam button, which takes them down rather than PPRing straight away.

Right, now I'm off to bash some spam

Mandelbrot

MSE_Megan wrote: »

Some of the bots get caught by the team and PPRd straight away

Sounds like FPA to me ...

marleyboy

What is FPA???

foxtrotoscar_2

marleyboy wrote: »

What is FPA???

First Post Approval?

Mandelbrot

foxtrotoscar wrote: »

First Post Approval?

Yes.

My previous (tongue-in-cheek) comment was a reference back to MSE Megan's post #566.

MSE Towers seems to have no problem taking one quick look at a post by a brand new user, seeing it is spam, and PPRing that username straight away.

Which is essentially what FPA is designed to weed out - those users that the site owners don't want on their site.

The problem might be more one of whether you actually formally call the procedure FPA or not.

foxtrotoscar_2

...or Forum Posting Approval?