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Spam :( (Read 17609 times)

antiplastik God Member Offline Posts: 699 France	Re: Spam :( Reply #45 - Mar 1^st, 2010, 5:24am Quote: Suggestion: eliminate regularly all users with 0 posts after some days +1 I also think that would help keeping the board clean.

Quark Senior Member Offline Posts: 411 UK	Re: Spam :( Reply #46 - Mar 2^nd, 2010, 9:32am Could prevent new members having PM and WWW link for say one month and to restrict length of their forum ID to make commercial links harder. Just a thought!

PhiLho YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Spam :( Reply #47 - Mar 3^rd, 2010, 12:18am Quark, you can't restrict PM (personal messages, internal to the board), but perhaps you mean e-mail address. Although these are quite harmless and spammers don't fill it anyway. Would be better to restrict signatures. But I don't know if the board allows such restrictions unless hacking it.

REAS YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 712 CA	Re: Spam :( Reply #48 - Mar 4^th, 2010, 3:09pm OK, we're following up on the suggestion to remove all users with 0 posts. I absolutely hate to do this, but I hate having the board locked down even more. I hope valid members will sign up again and understand the complexity of the situation.

roglig YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1	Re: Spam :( Reply #49 - Mar 4^th, 2010, 8:27pm Deleteing all users with 0 Posts is a good suggestion, but for how long?

PhiLho

Re: Spam :(
Reply #50 - Mar 5^th, 2010, 12:52am

Hello roglig, new user creating an account to answer a thread about board administration...
I suppose this clean up task is done by script, so it can be run by a cron job or something similar.
The answer is thus: for as long as necessary.
So as long as the moderators are vigilant, creating provisional accounts for future spamming is now useless.

fry

Re: Spam :(
Reply #51 - Mar 9^th, 2010, 7:04am

I've removed a large number of accounts, in particular those with zero posts. This also removed a number of legitimate accounts, but we hope those people will understand.

There are also some other potential spam accounts that were included, but because these losers are obviously reading/posting here, I won't get into the details of how we're detecting spam or flagging bad accounts. Once Casey and I can get a chance to discuss how we'll proceed for the future, we'll enable registration again. This is such an incredible waste of our free time, and we really appreciate those who have been helping out.

There is a special place in hell reserved for spammers like these.

bitline1 YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1	Re: Spam :( Reply #52 - Mar 25^th, 2010, 6:56am I regularly visit this forums but unfortunately my account was one of the accounts that got deleted I hope we can do something to detect those spammers so that people with legit accounts won't suffer

mindybeanphoto YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1	Re: Spam :( Reply #53 - Apr 1^st, 2010, 9:41pm Forums and instructions are sold to people as a way to build their page rank. Good luck for those who try it but I'm sure most are deleted.

koogy God Member Offline Posts: 788	Re: Spam :( Reply #54 - Apr 2^nd, 2010, 3:16am ^ another account for you to nuke! have been a few suspicious postings again lately. has been a lot better though.

PhiLho YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Spam :( Reply #55 - Apr 17^th, 2010, 3:56am I thought the spam was behind us, but I found back a message with a commercial link on it (while looking for old code) and today I eliminated a number of dummy first posts quoting a previous message and just telling "thanks it helped me as well". There is also a new member with an obviously commercial name...

REAS YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 712 CA	Re: Spam :( Reply #56 - Apr 18^th, 2010, 10:56am PhiLho, So we can take care of this, please email me at my Reas address rather than posting this type of info to the forum. Casey

koogy God Member Offline Posts: 788	Re: Spam :( Reply #57 - May 11^th, 2010, 1:32am 3 spam messages all from the same account here: http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/?action=usersrecentposts;username=21223A65616763550

PhiLho YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Spam :( Reply #58 - May 11^th, 2010, 2:41am Removed (it was user 'sudy'). Thanks.

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