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Forum Spam

in News by DaveKellett

Friday, April 17, 2009 - 06:02 PM

All of a sudden in the last month or so, we've had a few human spammers hit the Sheldon forums. Nothing horrendous, thus far. Just notes like "I'm writing something generic! [followed by a link to something-online.com]". But it's annoying to me, and, I imagine, annoying to you as well.

Our signup process is just tedious enough that I'm flummoxed it's "worth it" to these people, but maybe in a down economy it is.

In any case, I'm deleting/blocking offending accounts as soon as they pop up. When you see an offending one, just drop me an e-mail with the username, and I'll take it from there.

Thanks!

- Dave

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Re: Forum Spam (Score: 1)
posted Friday, April 17, 2009 - 06:27 PM (#47501)

My own forum has had the same thing. Most of the Spam is coming from China, so I've had to block the spammers by blocking ranges of the Chinese IP's.

Maybe you can do the same.


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Re: Forum Spam (Score: 1)
posted Friday, April 17, 2009 - 09:52 PM (#47503)

Contact the Chinese authorities and tell them to please stop so-and-so IP address from spamming with pro-democracy, pro-Tibet stuff.

You'll never hear from THOSE individuals again. ;-)


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Re: Forum Spam (Score: 1)
posted Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 01:33 AM (#47504)
In Response to abracadabra (#47503):

Easier to block the IP's than hope the Chinese government is going to do anything.


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Re: Forum Spam (Score: 1)
posted Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 01:37 AM (#47505)
In Response to abracadabra (#47503):

Derr, nevermind. The rst of your comment just sank in... XD


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Re: Forum Spam (Score: 1)
posted Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 05:59 AM (#47506)
Good comment! I enjoyed it very much! Please enjoy something completely unrelated to your comic! [notarealurl.com]
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Re: Forum Spam (Score: 1)
posted Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 09:32 AM (#47509)

Seriously, we've had this problem on a board I monitor. It got so bad the owner had to institute the "copy the crazy letters and numbers" thing. It is said the Chinese have created a bot that can autoregister through everything but that - so far.


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Re: Forum Spam (Score: 1)
posted Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 02:50 PM (#47511)

This guy called DaveKellett seems to post something inane almost every day!

:)


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Re: Forum Spam (Score: 1)
posted Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 06:26 PM (#47512)

Super great blog post! I enjoy very much!

You should visit super great comic by Bossman Kellett! [sheldoncomics.com]


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Re: Forum Spam (Score: 1)
posted Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 08:51 PM (#47514)
Ikcor, I'll close that account right away. That guy can't write anything interested to save his life.
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Re: Forum Spam (Score: 1)
posted Monday, April 20, 2009 - 01:16 PM (#47532)
In Response to Patjade (#47501):

Most of the Spam is coming from China
This is where things get interesting. We run our own custom anti spam system with my hosting company and, while we see a fair amount of spam from China, a lot more comes from Eastern Europe countries like the Ukraine. We also see tons from spam friendly hosting services like thePlanet/ev1.

There's no one real solution to the problem. Besides a 2x4 of course. :)


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