Post spam and be deleted!

[dolanbaker]

Hip hip Hooray! Let's do it.

+1

[SeaGypsy]

Currently getting about 10 spam posts to each real. Over the top.

[Sixstrings]

Here's an idea..

Don't know if it's doable or not..

But if you could give long timers the power to delete a thread / move it to a review bin or something then that you'd increase your spam police.

It would be a win-win, the forum members complaining about spam could just click a quick button instead of reporting and waiting. If anyone deletes something other than spam, then their membership would come under review.

Barring those drastic measures, as it is the mods do a great job I think.

[dolanbaker]

Here's an idea..

Don't know if it's doable or not..

But if you could give long timers the power to delete a thread / move it to a review bin or something then that you'd increase your spam police.

It would be a win-win, the forum members complaining about spam could just click a quick button instead of reporting and waiting. If anyone deletes something other than spam, then their membership would come under review.

Barring those drastic measures, as it is the mods do a great job I think.

good idea, i think theoildrum does that.

[SeaGypsy]

I made a similar suggestion ages ago, it never got anywhere. It's a shame to have to stifle initial posts, but that seems the least controversial place to filter. We have had the odd new member show up with some gems, which is always good; these would still get through. Something semi automated would save our dear mods a lot of work and prevention would drive the rest away in short order.

"NO WE DO NOT WANT YOUR GOD DAMNED FREE MOVIES SO BUGGER OFF ALREADY OK?"

[Sixstrings]

The doomstead is swarmed with spam, man the barricades.

[Pops]

I think the plan is to make the site run so slowly the spammers will leave in frustration.

[dolanbaker]

I think the plan is to make the site run so slowly the spammers will leave in frustration.

Congestion charging for spammers!

[SeaGypsy]

Is anything going to be done about this? Are Aaron and admin in Bermuda? Every day now, piles and piles of the same garbage/ free movies etc. PLEASE CAN WE GET SOME ACTION ON THIS? IT'S KILLING THE SITE!!!

[davep]

It's only really affecting the site badly while the US mods sleep and before I get into the office. I think the best solution is to ramp up the bot defences, but we may need an upgrade to the site code for that. Dan?

[SeaGypsy]

'The US mods' is almost every mod. Iowem is never here anymore, you Dave are the only active one in Europe. This leaves from west coast USA bedtime until you get on here, if you miss a morning, it can be 10 hours or more the site is fully clogged with carp.

[davep]

'The US mods' is almost every mod. Iowem is never here anymore, you Dave are the only active one in Europe. This leaves from west coast USA bedtime until you get on here, if you miss a morning, it can be 10 hours or more the site is fully clogged with carp.

Fair point. We are having a mod discussion about the problem.

[swilson]

H I am new here and just wanted to charm in on what you are saying about handleing spam. I own a blog that gets lots of traffic and have to deal with the spammers myself.

I have found that pre-approval does work great but also wait five days because they will come back 3 days after leaving a post then pop a link in the post. I think with Google's update us bloggers and forum owners will not be dealing with the spammers as much in the near future.

Hope this helps it has cut my spamming problem down by 60% so I thought I would share.

[Ferretlover]

Here's an analogy: Remember how the Starfleet crew would zap the borg with their phasers and, for a while, it would work; then, the Borg would change the frequency of their personal shields and the Starfleet crew would have to work out what the new solution was to deal with them?
Same thing here, only we have to deal with different posting groups from different countries and skill levels. Needless to say, we are learning what works and what doesn't. Members of the Staff are also working on the viability of a couple of ideas for additional help.
Until we have something we can agree on that doesn't stiffle our regular posters, just go with the flow.
and, ignore the Borg.

[Blacksmith]

What is spam? Special Processed American Meat?

[SeaGypsy]

The site is again flooded this morning on the other side of the planet. The spam posts have been reported hours ago, they sit waiting for Dave to log on in Europe in a few hours, or perhaps all day if he is busy and we have to wait for the American Mods. Meanwhile the site looks really unprofessional. What makes these bozos think we are interested in their god damned free pirated movies anyway?

[KingM]

The site is again flooded this morning on the other side of the planet. The spam posts have been reported hours ago, they sit waiting for Dave to log on in Europe in a few hours, or perhaps all day if he is busy and we have to wait for the American Mods. Meanwhile the site looks really unprofessional. What makes these bozos think we are interested in their god damned free pirated movies anyway?

The thing about spammers is they're happy to send fifteen million messages for one click, because they don't do the work, their computers do. But yeah, the spam fighting techniques on this site are circa 1998. Would it be so hard to put in a captcha image with email verification for new accounts?

[SeaGypsy]

Good question.

[Duende]

Captcha may be the way to go. This site is currently being dominated by spambots!

[SeaGypsy]

Please DO SOMETHING!!!! So bloody frustrating. We keep complaining and asking nicely but for some unknown reason it's too hard. For god's sakes this is ridiculous.