Can something be done about the spam?

Nonce Equitaur 2
Nonce Equitaur 2 Posts: 2,269 Chairperson of the Boards
edited August 2014 in MPQ General Discussion
The forum is still giving advertising space to banned spammers.
Spammers are being banned without removing the spam that they've posted.
Over a thousand spam accounts have been created for spamming the board.

I could probably help with that.

As a start ... memberlist.php?sk=d&sd=a&start=4625 to memberlist.php?sk=d&sd=a&start=5175 is mostly spam accounts. It's pretty easy to do a mass ban, as described in the zero posts thread.

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  • Unknown
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    the shoe spammers all have animal names though! its cuter than the random gibberish of the last batch of spammers.
  • Nonce Equitaur 2
    Nonce Equitaur 2 Posts: 2,269 Chairperson of the Boards
    I do admit to having a fondness for the "Space Hobo Photo Credit" spam title from a few days ago.
  • Unknown
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    Seems like the spammers have altered their scripts and start creating posts in the "open" forums first and then moving on once they hit the post threshold. Time to look for a new band-aid.

    As it is, I'm on the verge of just asking to have my mod status removed. I get about 20 minutes a day of time to actually read the forums, and 15 of that is taken up banning, deleting, and approving various posts. Not sure it's really worth it.
  • wymtime
    wymtime Posts: 3,762 Chairperson of the Boards
    Riggy wrote:
    Seems like the spammers have altered their scripts and start creating posts in the "open" forums first and then moving on once they hit the post threshold. Time to look for a new band-aid.

    As it is, I'm on the verge of just asking to have my mod status removed. I get about 20 minutes a day of time to actually read the forums, and 15 of that is taken up banning, deleting, and approving various posts. Not sure it's really worth it.

    Thank you for you efforts in deleting spam posts. I can only imagine that it feels like a thankless job, but I really appriciate it. You and all the forum knows how annoying the spam is and how it creates a less than steller forum experience. Please continue the work that you put in so we can all enjoy the forum.

    Thank you
  • GothicKratos
    GothicKratos Posts: 1,821 Chairperson of the Boards
    wymtime wrote:
    Riggy wrote:
    Seems like the spammers have altered their scripts and start creating posts in the "open" forums first and then moving on once they hit the post threshold. Time to look for a new band-aid.

    As it is, I'm on the verge of just asking to have my mod status removed. I get about 20 minutes a day of time to actually read the forums, and 15 of that is taken up banning, deleting, and approving various posts. Not sure it's really worth it.

    Thank you for you efforts in deleting spam posts. I can only imagine that it feels like a thankless job, but I really appriciate it. You and all the forum knows how annoying the spam is and how it creates a less than steller forum experience. Please continue the work that you put in so we can all enjoy the forum.

    Thank you

    Ditto. Been there, done that. It's tedious and thankless, and in the event of games-related boards, you tend to get lumped in with the "bad guy devs" a lot. Thank you for taking time out of your day to increase the daily enjoyability of all the forums users without any kind of compensation what-so-ever.

    I would be willing to offer assistance (even in the event all I could do it move Spam off to an invisible forum), but I know I haven't been here nearly long enough for any kind of status.

    [Edit]

    With the proper metrics, I could potentially assist in coming up with a reasonable solution, also, if you'd like to drop me a PM. icon_e_wink.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Riggy wrote:
    Seems like the spammers have altered their scripts and start creating posts in the "open" forums first and then moving on once they hit the post threshold. Time to look for a new band-aid.

    As it is, I'm on the verge of just asking to have my mod status removed. I get about 20 minutes a day of time to actually read the forums, and 15 of that is taken up banning, deleting, and approving various posts. Not sure it's really worth it.

    We appreciate what you can do, especially since you seem to be the only active Mod left. But we simply need a few more mods, even if it's in some sort of limited role where all they can do is remove spam and remove users.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Can't blame you, Riggy.

    Honestly, after the way they treated Nonce, they kind of deserve this.
  • GothicKratos
    GothicKratos Posts: 1,821 Chairperson of the Boards
    Expalphalog wrote:
    Can't blame you, Riggy.

    Honestly, after the way they treated Nonce, they kind of deserve this.

    Someone care to extrapolate on this? Preferably via PM as to not cause a ruckus.
  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
    hawaii-spam.jpg
  • Spoit
    Spoit Posts: 3,441 Chairperson of the Boards
    GothicKratos wrote:
    Expalphalog wrote:
    Can't blame you, Riggy.

    Honestly, after the way they treated Nonce, they kind of deserve this.

    Someone care to extrapolate on this? Preferably via PM as to not cause a ruckus.
    Search his thread history for the thread about deleting people without posts

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