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Re: Spam problems
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:29 pm
by BlackHole
Another obvious one I just disaproved (and then banned the viagra spammer):
This is a test topic please dele it.
~ Black
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Re: Spam problems
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:57 pm
by Aleol
Okay guys, I'm fairly certain I just deleted 3 pr0n topics in a row, which were all posted by the EXACT same person....
Please ban the user "Atteneviardit" I'm getting tired of disapproving their posts
Re: Spam problems
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:07 am
by BlackHole
Only Spam Police / moderators / admins have the required permissions to ban users.
I've banned the user you mentioned, since it's profile was filled with links to porn sites, a quite obvious spammer. However, be aware that we may not always be able to do this. When a user has a (almost) empty profile, and there are no posts (because they were disapproved) based on which we can determine whether he is a spammer, we won't ban him since we cannot be sure whether he's a real user or a spambot.
~ Black
Architecture is the art of wasting space.
Re: Spam problems
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:37 pm
by Freshbite
Those are the tricky ones.
Re: Spam problems
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:23 pm
by Aleol
I understand. That user was becoming particularly annoying, however. They just kept posting even after their posts were disapproved, and It was all porn sites. I'm sorry, I was a little perturbed at the time.
Re: Spam problems
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 2:01 am
by Tonjevic
I don't suppose they'll ever stop...
This manual disapproval system basically ensures that the advertisements will get read by at least one person each, which is probably a success in the minds of the spammers.
Re: Spam problems
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 6:30 am
by Freshbite
Not necessarily read. The ones that use a Russian-ish language I don't have to check what they link to.
Re: Spam problems
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 2:56 pm
by nutcracker
Messages tittled "penis enlargement" just don't get read anyway, its just auto disapprove always.
We don't really read the adds unless the topic name is unclear, or atleast I don't
Re: Spam problems
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:40 pm
by Cadrega
Just tried out my moderator powah by disapproving a thread about spam. Should I just ban the users directly or simply disapprove and let someone with more experience (and more active on the forum, I had no idea spam was getting this bad
) the pleasure of banning the spam-bots?
Re: Spam problems
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:43 am
by Freshbite
Sadly, you can't ban them.
I guess you have to leave that up to us moderators and spam officers. 
Re: Spam problems
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:59 am
by nutcracker
for example Freshbite here pends 85% of his free time banning spam bots on the wolfire forum.
Re: Spam problems
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:23 pm
by Cadrega
Freshbite wrote:Sadly, you can't ban them.
I guess you have to leave that up to us moderators and spam officers.
Ahh, I hoped I could also ban them. Oh well, my fault for visiting the forum only every once in a while.
Re: Spam problems
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:05 pm
by Uberbeard
Thought I'd accidentally glitched the forums for a moment, when it was telling me I had a queue of posts to moderate
Re: Spam problems
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:34 am
by nutcracker
I noticed that a lot of the spam bots are +40 years old. They are easily spottable from the "birthdays today" thing.
Re: Spam problems
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:52 pm
by kehaar
I love it when I can disapprove the post
while the fuque-tard is still logged on the site so they get to watch all their sign-up time and effort go up in smoke.
Eat It, you jerks.