Spambots - an apology

fermi

torbrex wrote: »

still 9 on DT from before 8am

0 now......

fermi

joansgirl wrote: »

And for some of us, clicking the spam button causes our browsers to crash

That is a good point. On Google Chrome?

Not had that myself, but probably non Windows copes a bit better. Plenty of people have said it has been crashing Chrome, presumably on Windows.

Silk

torbrex wrote: »

I first reported the problem with the spambots back in March and a thread has been regularly updated with possible solutions to the problem but sadly nothing was put into place and I have no doubt there still would be no change if Martin had not been contacted directly through Twitter.

Martin was on here yesterday morning and made a posting so find it hard to accept he didn't notice .... I assumed he was doing something about it yesterday !


I still see no other way of stopping it other than first post approval

fermi

joansgirl wrote: »

And for some of us, clicking the spam button causes our browsers to crash

Just tried that in latest Chrome on Windows 10 (VM) and clicking on a thread with the Korean characters in it killed Chrome dead (not responding).

Firefox, Edge/Spartan, etc were OK.

bengal-stripe

fermi wrote: »

Just tried that in latest Chrome on Windows 10 (VM) and clicking on a thread with the Korean characters in it killed Chrome dead (not responding).

That's the problem (Chrome) I have.

If I click on one of the spam threads (no idea if it's only Korean characters or other alphabets as well) it becomes non-responding and I have to wait 10 minutes to recover or I have to kill it.

I will not be clicking any more on one of those threads, if only to report it as spam.

fermi

Fine here for Chrome in OS X Yosemite and Android, so seems a Chrome for Windows issue.

atush

jamesd wrote: »

Regular expressions are an approach that has been working for eleven years for the 7th ranked global web site.

That global list is combined with site-specific sub-lists, IP range blocks and a range of robots to keep things under reasonable control in a place where millions of pages are mostly editable by anyone.

You're handicapped by the working hours of your team, particularly those with the capability to use high-power fixes.

By now you should have a good database of those who combine high spam reporting rates with low false positive rates. Presumably there are ways available to leverage that information, or can be.

Don't let this discourage you from taking a break, work-life balance applies even for founders.

Or they could hire staff to cover the overnight hours? that seems to be the problem, the working hours of staff.

Biker*Chick

fermi wrote: »

Fine here for Chrome in OS X Yosemite and Android, so seems a Chrome for Windows issue.

FYI - I use Chrome (latest version) on my lappy running Windows OS 8.1 and haven't experienced any problems with crashes myself :cool:

p.s. I 'bashed' several pages of spam this morning, along with everyone else on the forum, without a crash

torbrex

atush wrote: »

Or they could hire staff to cover the overnight hours? that seems to be the problem, the working hours of staff.

I would say yes but there are spammers operating right now and one already has 6 posts and is working on another one.

They need to be stopped sooner than that so that the message gets through to the people that set them up.

Money_maker

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Could you help report or spam button them please?

Thank you!

But your post is at 1:26pm and the post you replied to was about spam from 8 or 9am still on the boards. Why does the poster have to push the spam button, why can your team not seek out and destroy as they have alerted you and it is office hours?

Surely this is part of the job description of someone at MSE towers, the regular posters on these boards have done more than enough over the last few days.