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Re: When forum spam escapes into news feeds
philwareham wrote #285542:
I think upping the tweet time delay from 60 minutes to at least 120 of that’s possible would help catch rogue tweets. Naybe Robert can do that.
I don’t think that feedburner offers any means of control. It just fetches the forum’s feed at some unknown interval and then posts to Twitter.
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Re: When forum spam escapes into news feeds
uli wrote #285552:
If this doesn’t require me signing a contract with IFTTT I’d volunteer on that one. Someone else?
It’d make most sense to have the IFTTT account attached to the forum contact address, should that be the route taken.
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Re: When forum spam escapes into news feeds
wet wrote #285553:
I don’t think that feedburner offers any means of control. It just fetches the forum’s feed at some unknown interval and then posts to Twitter.
That’s my understanding. Twitterfeed does the same every 15 minutes, at least it did the last time I checked.
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Re: When forum spam escapes into news feeds
Thinking about this further, one of the main reasons that this place is a spammer target is the absence of nofollow in the outgoing links. If that was to change, it’d make spamming here far less attractive.
Are there historical reasons why nofollow is absent? Are there good reasons to keep it that way?
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Re: When forum spam escapes into news feeds
uli wrote #285550:
Alright, split done. Pete, please feel free to name the topic to your liking/in perfect English/write a more appropriate introduction/etc., after all you’ve made the first post ;)
Done. The temptation to also shoehorn a joke punchline in and leave everyone confused was very tempting.
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Re: When forum spam escapes into news feeds
gaekwad wrote #285555:
That’s my understanding. Twitterfeed does the same every 15 minutes, at least it did the last time I checked.
Twitterfeed actually offers multiple choices – from 15 minutes to several hours.
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#19 2014-11-07 20:22:25
- ingleslenobel
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Re: When forum spam escapes into news feeds
Is there no way to control the problem at the source? Ie prevent spammers registering and posting? Have you considered making the forum “manual approval” before joining, surely there can’t be that many non-spammers joining every day?
Edit – or parse for a URL in the first post and just keep those in an approval queue as a starter?
Last edited by ingleslenobel (2014-11-07 20:27:35)
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Re: When forum spam escapes into news feeds
I guess, because of my time zone, I am one of the first who checks and deletes the spam in the forum. I found that the big wave comes at around 6am GMT as at 5am GMT there is normally nothing.
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Re: When forum spam escapes into news feeds
I’ve upped the RSS feed cache (in the forum) to 60 minutes, that might help slightly.
If twitterfeed offers better controls than feedburner is say go with that instead.
Regarding nofollow, FluxBB doesn’t allow anything in settings to prevent that. Although, we use Textile, so maybe that could be patched into the code. If Jukka was around he could probably answer that one.
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Re: When forum spam escapes into news feeds
I’ve put a proposal together here – it looks like a couple of files can be edited to achieve the nofollow-ness.
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Re: When forum spam escapes into news feeds
I have now banned registrations from email addresses provided by this particular service. This might help a bit.
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Re: When forum spam escapes into news feeds
There is hope: Franz yesterday mentioned the possibility of anti-spam plugins in the next release of FluxBB, due circa next week.
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