Thanks to our moderators

[Phi for All]

 

Not so. All the 143040 ones I flagged yesterday had just registered.

 

Bummer. Baked beans are off.

[CaptainPanic]

Having just seen the contaminated 'new posts' list, I would just like to extend a warm thanks to our moderators for using their valuable time to clear all the chaff.

 

You're welcome.

 

Having just seen the contaminated 'new posts' list, I would just like to extend a warm thanks to our moderators for using their valuable time to clear all the chaff.

 

 

You're welcome.

[michel123456]

The traditional defense is to block spammers, which is a tactic that does not harm the spammer very much. If he managed to stay on the Forum for a few minutes, multiplied by the billions users of the Internet, that must have been enough to allow his job to be done.

Isn't it some other way to be more offensive and to harm the spammer a little bit?

Like publishing his IP in a Bad List (I don't know how much harm is that- something like an Internet pillory) or redirecting his link to another address like Internet Police or to a warning page from this Forum? Or some other idea?

Edited June 10, 2013 by michel123456

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

The traditional defense is to block spammers, which is a tactic that does not harm the spammer very much. If he managed to stay on the Forum for a few minutes, multiplied by the billions users of the Internet, that must have been enough to allow his job to be done.

Isn't it some other way to be more offensive and to harm the spammer a little bit?

Like publishing his IP in a Bad List (I don't know how much harm is that- something like an Internet pillory) or redirecting his link to another address like Internet Police or to a warning page from this Forum? Or some other idea?

We subscribe to an automated service which tracks known spammers and allows them to be blocked before registering. Anyone who makes it through and gets manually banned by us is also automatically reported to the service, which should slow them down on other sites.

[StringJunky]

Are all these, that have just come, connected to the same IP? They are all for the same product it seems yet different users. What's going on here?

 

[studiot]

Noting Imatfaal response about a lost thread just now reminds me of the situation this morning when I logged in.

 

There were about twenty 'users' with names from the alphabet soup kitchen, but not a single moderator at that time.

There were also several pages of spam threads in "View New Content"

 

I wonder if it is possible for moderators to activate a toggle so that when the last one logs off / on no new users can join / an or new threads (not posts) be started?

 

I am sure that the current blizzard of spam is discouraging genuine users an I for one would would happy to put up with this small inconvenience for what would behopefully a temporary period.

Edited June 20, 2013 by studiot