Spammers on Steepster

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Uniquity said

I thought it was cleaned up, but despite some posts being moved to the first page, there are still unread posts mixed in the spam. I know you’re doing all your can, Steepster overlords, but this is really killing the functionality of the discussion board. Bad bad spammers.

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Jason select said

Should be all good now, sorry guys. Was travelling so wasn’t near a computer.

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puts up the Bat Signal. Gotham needs help!

Yeowch! They’re certainly back with a vengeance tonight.

Less than a day even.

Jason select said

As quickly as I am called, I vanish back into the darkness.

Uh oh. They’re back for round two apparently.
Edit – Or apparently only one? XD

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Angrboda said

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Not sure if this has been suggested yet or not, but I’m a member of a different board where spammers were also running rampant. The issue was resolved by temporarily suspending new membership. If a captcha system is too involved to implement, refusing to allow spammers to make new accounts would also help. In my experience, they’ll give up after about a week or so. Of course, one unfortunate side effect would be that people genuinely interested in joining would also be turned aside, so there is the matter of a trade off.

Angrboda said

I think that sounds like a good idea. People who were genuinely interested in joining, I believe, would understand the need to do something about massive spamming problems. They could write to a provided email maybe and get more details about when and how to join.

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Angrboda said

They’re doing it again.

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AJ said

I’d almost just implement something crazy that auto-bans or auto-deletes any threads with “Solahart” in the opening post.

Or at the very least put a cap on how many posts a user can make within a certain timeframe.

Angrboda said

Either way something needs to be done. I’m rapidly losing patience with all this spam and I’m sure I’m not alone. Besides which, Jason can’t keep wasting his time standing guard over the site 24/7.

Might be time to get a forum moderator if nothing else. The spam doesn’t bother me that much, but it is harder to use the forums because of it.

Uniquity said

When the posts are cleaned up there are weird glitches too though. Sometimes the posts are moved to a further back page but for whatever reason I will see the same posts on page 1 and 2 (that I actually want to access). Like I said above, the functionality of the Steepster message boards is highly compromised by these spam attacks. They are a serious deterrent if even I am considering giving up.

Angrboda said

I find a hard refresh helps with that. I think the same posts issue might be cache related. (Unless your problem is not the same as mine, obviously)

Blod – the moderator thing was discussed here: http://steepster.com/discuss/7805-spammers-on-steepster?page=2

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Angrboda said

Here are a couple of non-Solahart, just so they don’t get last in all the Solaharting mess that is bound to happen sooner rather than later.

http://steepster.com/discuss/8931-singgasana-hotels-and-resorts-pilihan-akomodasi-terbaik-di-indonesia
http://steepster.com/discuss/8932-finding-cheap-and-quality-clove-cigarettes-from-top-brand

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Jason select said

Sorry again guys, I’m doing my best to keep up with it but they’re being pretty aggressive. We actually have a few features implemented that people have suggested here (IP based blocking, activity throttling) but it’s obviously not stopping them. We’ll likely have to move to something more drastic to stop them and hopefully will have some time to do that shortly.

Cheri select said

We all really appreciate what you have done, and all you continue to do.

Jason select said

I always appreciate how patient you guys are.

looseTman said

“We all really appreciate what you have done, and all you continue to do.” +1

“We’ll likely have to move to something more drastic to stop them …”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxHAZChcYU :-)

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They are back.

Jason select said

Hopefully nipped that one at the bud.

Dinosara said

Now there’s someone spamming about downloading the teenage mutant ninja turtles movie!

Jason select said

Man, they’re all piling on at once…

At least they’re getting more interesting.

Jen M said

I’ve always wanted to see that movie!! See, without spammers, how on earth would I have known that movie was even available for download? HOW?!?!

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