Spam

[Casper]

Hi All,

As you have noticed, there is an increased amount of spam posted on this site. We are working quite hard to get rid of the spam. We are not online 24/7, so it might take some time for us to clean it up. If you see spam, please report it so we can logon to remove it.

Regards,

Casper.

 

[Chris Kelleher]

Yes the spam has gotten to be pretty constant. I've added a few controls which will hopefully slow the spam down enough that it becomes too cumbersome for it to be worth the effort.

 

[Stefan]

I appreciate captcha as an anti-spam measure, it does however detract from my forum experience.

Can accounts be marked as 'known human'? And if so, can I please be marked
'human' :awink:

 

[Casper]

I agree it is a bit annoying to have to fill in the captcha with every post....
cant we just dos-attack the spammers?

 

[medu]

this doesn't seems to stop them to keep posting... you can at least make it harder for the rest of us, like increasing the number of words that we have to type, put a time limit on it and lock the account if it pass validation more than once

maybe we should start adapting the firefox add-on for progresstalk ... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/skipscreen-incredible-rapidsha/

 

[RealHeavyDude]

I am not happy with the captcha solution as sometimes I am forced to enter characters that are not present on my keyboard. Is there any place where I would be able to configure this?

TIA, RealHeavyDude.

 

[medu]

we might try to build something on the (in)famous webmonkey script here... http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/38736

but the point is, clearly the peoples that does that have more time than we have... there are probably tons of perl/python scripts out there that can post fake messages on forums, invite and make friend on social networks or even poke someone

slightly off-topic but still funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UouP8cRYZ8

 

[Cringer]

Don't mind lending a hand on the moderation front if it's needed. I'm usually around during UK office hours.

 

[tamhas]

I don't know if there is an interface from this software to Mollum, but if there is, I have been very, very happy with what it has done to the spam problem on some Drupal sites.

 

[medu]

just want to say a big thank you for removing that annoying captcha

maybe you should try to validate the users email address before allowing them to post, put a captcha on validation page or something... some clean-up will still be required from time to time, we are all probably used to ignore spam anyway

 

[jmac13]

I noicted some on http://www.progresstalk.com/showthread.php?118521-AppBuilder where do i actual report any i see?

 

[Casper]

In the left bottom of a post you have the option to report this post.

 

[jmac13]

ah right ok cheers didnt know about that

 

[priesilmell]

How can I Get a Sig?

Is there a min. of posts? thanks

 

[tamhas]

Re: How can I Get a Sig?

Become a sponsor.

 

[Cringer]

Re: How to format windows 7 ultimate without removing the windows itself?

Ok so this is getting rather silly now. Massive amounts of spam and none of it seems to be getting removed

 

[RealHeavyDude]

Re: How to format windows 7 ultimate without removing the windows itself?

As this is a developer forum - at least that's my opinion - I ask myself whether these spamers just accidentally waste our time or if they do it on purpose. I don't think they will get much out of their spam here.

 

[jmac13]

Re: How to format windows 7 ultimate without removing the windows itself?

thats a really good point... not much chance of any of us clicking on their links... guess could just part of a auto system that attacks lots of forums or something

 

[jmac13]

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god the spam is really bad now... its even on this thread about spam

 

[RealHeavyDude]

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This is beginning to bother me. Mostly I am a guy who likes to help when I can. But I don't like to have stumbling blocks in my way for that. Therefore I do hope that the situation will get better soon ...