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Spambots

torbrex · 2015-03-11 06:08:04

Dear MSE towers Filtering out certain words using the swear filter doesn't stop the black magic spambots from flooding the boards every day, they still post 50+ times on each visit and irritate the life out of anyone using that particular board or the general search function (New Posts) A new tactic is needed please. Limit…

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Mandelbrot Posts: 9,139 Forumite

11 April 2015 at 1:32PM

custardy wrote: »

If they gave all the board guys access to the 'one touch'
They could clear spam from any section on the forum.
I (well less so these days) moderate on a forum and the moderating team being global the spammers are usually cleared out before most members see the posts.

But that assumes that "the board guys" (BGs) here - at least some of them - will be on the forum at that time.
It doesn't necessarily work out that way.
Perhaps MSE ought to make use of their now fairly extensive overseas membership (as well as those up & about in the UK at odd hours ) to provide a bit more round-the-clock supervision.

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custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite

11 April 2015 at 1:52PM

Mandelbrot wrote: »

But that assumes that "the board guys" (BGs) here - at least some of them - will be on the forum at that time.
It doesn't necessarily work out that way.
Perhaps MSE ought to make use of their now fairly extensive overseas membership (as well as those up & about in the UK at odd hours ) to provide a bit more round-the-clock supervision.

All they need to do is hit new posts. It doesn't matter what forum the spam is on. The one touch gives cross section access.
Realistically you only need one mod/BG to be on in the early morning to clean up.

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Mandelbrot Posts: 9,139 Forumite

11 April 2015 at 2:38PM

What if the Spam threads all have slightly different thread titles, and different usernames?

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custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite

11 April 2015 at 3:07PM

Mandelbrot wrote: »

What if the Spam threads all have slightly different thread titles, and different usernames?

aimed at who?
for me. the tool simply bans and cleans all history of a user.
So posts/threads started all gone.

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fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite

11 April 2015 at 3:10PM

https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=156444

As discussed before I think?

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custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite

11 April 2015 at 3:16PM

fermi wrote: »

https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=156444

As discussed before I think?

yup,not the answer to everything.
However for plain old spammers its an easy way to clean up.

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Robin9 Posts: 12,782 Forumite

11 April 2015 at 6:16PM

Yet more this afternoon.

Does anyone think that MSE Towers see this as a problem ?

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Mandelbrot Posts: 9,139 Forumite

11 April 2015 at 8:04PM

Not while they've got people prepared to sort it out for them.

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MothballsWallet Posts: 15,864 Forumite

11 April 2015 at 10:15PM

Some more again, if they're going to :spam: our boards, they should at least have the decency to :spam: us in English

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Gingernutty Posts: 3,769 Forumite

14 April 2015 at 7:03AM

Astrologer spam arriving on the Credit Card forum now.

:huh: Don't know what I'm doing, but doing it anyway... :huh:

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