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I highly recommend immediately banning or moderating all posts from new members with Korean (or, less-ideally, non-ASCII) characters in the title. These are all spam, and I think it really detracts from the site's reputation to constantly have the latest posts being spam. -
Perhaps introducing "captcha" for first 15-10 posts would eliminate bots?
PS: I'm unsure how easy it is for site admins to introduce any new feature based on time, and financial resources.
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I'm also willing to wield moderator powers for banning the occasional spammer.
In the meaning the 300s rule means 5 minutes between posts, which sadly blocks my usual pattern of scanning the forum periodically and answering a batch of questions. I hope this stopgap can be replaced...Leave a comment:
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I guess I'll volunteer, since at least that will spread out the time zone coverage a bit. BTW, the spammer seems to have gotten through somehow.Leave a comment:
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Happy to...volunteers welcome!Originally posted by dpryan View Post
I am working on installing a totally new spam protection, probably when I upgrade to vBulletin5...Originally posted by Brian Bushnell View Post
Yeah, this is a stopgap until I have a better system...Originally posted by GenoMax View Post
Thanks guys for bearing with this...I know it's annoying. We are getting hammered lately...Leave a comment:
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Also slightly more intelligible yet useless spam like this:
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It's a lot easier to clean up, though.Originally posted by GenoMax View PostLeave a comment:
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Looks like the bots are working through the new "300 seconds between two posts" limit.Leave a comment:
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Another possibility, at present, is to prohibit the use of non-ASCII unicode characters in new posts, if you have that kind of flexibility...Leave a comment:
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Seems to be only one account (slowly) getting through at the moment. Depending on what permissions they get, you might want to just deputize a few more moderators.Leave a comment:
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Still seems to not quite be working. Though, most of the spam posts now show up as "moderated".Leave a comment:
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Some of the first accounts didn't get banned...I'm keeping an eye on my phone from the road...:/Leave a comment:
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Spambots appear to have made a come back .. at a reduced rate though.Leave a comment:
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There's another one that just popped up. Seems to be largely throttled at least.Leave a comment:
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