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#61 2011-08-06 17:36:23

ruud
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Re: Where does all that spam come from?

No, SFS isn’t notified when you ban someone. Personally, I never ban anyone. I just delete the account.
To notify SFS, you’d have to include evidence and banning happens on the user level, not on a post level.

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#62 2011-08-06 18:19:50

net-carver
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Re: Where does all that spam come from?

Grrr, just got another spammer whilst logged in. Using the forum whilst a spammer is logged in — and not being able to kick them out — irritates me.

Consider me volunteering as a forum admin to get the rights to delete spammers that are online while I am logged into the forum.


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#63 2011-08-07 07:50:13

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Re: Where does all that spam come from?

net-carver wrote:

Consider me volunteering as a forum admin

Thanks.

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#64 2011-08-07 20:44:01

net-carver
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Re: Where does all that spam come from?

Thank you Robert — first spammer deleted. Hope the power is controllable.


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#65 2011-09-23 11:19:45

uli
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Re: Where does all that spam come from?

Just remarked that spammers are getting smarter these days. They tend to circumvent deletion by posting in places where they don’t need knowledge and where posting a personalized, individual, remark is easier than on other spots: the “Let’s see yours then” forum.

A person who posted nothing else than a handful of Great site! remarks last night had none of his commercial links anymore this morning. This brought back a consideration I had a while ago: I think making it impossible by default for new members (up to post #20 or so) to have web links in personal data and signature (or no sig at all) would make it a lot more unattractive for spammers to use our forum.


In bad weather I never leave home without wet_plugout, smd_where_used and adi_form_links

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#66 2011-09-23 15:28:03

wet
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Re: Where does all that spam come from?

uli wrote:

A person who posted nothing else than a handful of Great site! remarks last night had none of his commercial links anymore this morning.

Sometimes I make overly enthusiastic people lose their links.

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#67 2011-09-23 15:47:48

colak
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Re: Where does all that spam come from?

I think making it impossible by default for new members (up to post #20 or so) to have web links in personal data and signature (or no sig at all) would make it a lot more unattractive for spammers to use our forum.

Although it might work, i think that allowing signatures and links helps us spot and delete the spammers easier.


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#68 2011-09-23 16:34:04

uli
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Re: Where does all that spam come from?

wet wrote:

Sometimes I make overly enthusiastic people lose their links.

Some folks have all the fun ;)

Yannis, you’re probably right, didn’t think it that way around.


In bad weather I never leave home without wet_plugout, smd_where_used and adi_form_links

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#69 2011-09-23 19:32:50

Gocom
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Re: Where does all that spam come from?

uli wrote:

I think making it impossible by default for new members (up to post #20 or so) to have web links in personal data and signature (or no sig at all) would make it a lot more unattractive for spammers to use our forum.

How many of us have started their Textpattern Support Forum career by plugging something? I know I did (spamming bastard) ;-)

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#70 2012-07-13 12:32:40

colak
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Re: Where does all that spam come from?

ruud wrote re stopforumspam:

^^ I would check if either email address or IPnr was listed, not necessarily both.

Interestingly we had a post today by a new user whose IP is listed in stopforumspam. As the post seemed OK, I am not publicly revealing the user but the ip is 65.49.68.189


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#71 2012-07-14 18:50:13

ruud
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Re: Where does all that spam come from?

No surprise. Any filter that prevents a lot spam also has a few false positives.

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#72 2012-07-15 08:32:10

colak
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Re: Where does all that spam come from?

Hi ruud, what you say is very true but shouldn’t the ‘listed’ IP block the registration of the particular user in this forum?


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