Where does all that spam come from?

ruud · 2011-08-06 17:36:23

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.

net-carver · 2011-08-06 18:19:50

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.

wet · 2011-08-07 07:50:13

net-carver wrote:

Consider me volunteering as a forum admin

Thanks.

net-carver · 2011-08-07 20:44:01

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

uli · 2011-09-23 11:19:45

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.

wet · 2011-09-23 15:28:03

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.

colak · 2011-09-23 15:47:48

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.

uli · 2011-09-23 16:34:04

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.

Gocom · 2011-09-23 19:32:50

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)} ;-)

colak · 2012-07-13 12:32:40

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

ruud · 2012-07-14 18:50:13

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

colak · 2012-07-15 08:32:10

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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