I don't mind spammers nearly as much if they don't take away precious Smarchmoot-minutes. And interrupt the music.

Also, I fully expect regular reminders about the rose now.

Sander, I was recently looking into Mollom: http://mollom.com/.

I haven't tried the service, but I learned about them through Todd Hoff at highscalability.com, who used them on a project.  http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/2/ … 0-re.html.

Maybe worth a try if you're having a tough time with automated approaches to combating spam.

Wow, two in a week. :/ Taken care of now.

Matt: thanks for the suggestion, but the total level of spam here isn't that bad yet; other than just now, I don't think we've had more than one spammer per month actually posting, and it's all human-originated, which means that anything mollom would be unsure about would sail right through.
Mostly we're 'suffering' from profile link spam registrations for the benefit of google (~10 per week), but I'm deleting those links almost as fast as they're put in, and registrations for that purpose are slowly but steadily declining. I still have a couple of tricks up my sleeve which just take time to implement (as would putting in something like mollom), and the volume has remained low enough that finding that time hasn't become a priority yet. (2 minutes per day is easier to justify than one solid block of 2 hours, even if it'd pay itself back swiftly enough.) :)

Oh no! I wanted to report that one! At least I can supply the URL ^^

http://www.tadwilliams.com:9080/bbs/vie … p?id=10723

Sad, sad, sad.

Either I'm getting older, or they're getting cleverer. <<-- That is not a question that requires a response.

Or are their singular posts quick cut and paste jobs? This is a question that does not require, but could tolerate a response.


http://www.tadwilliams.com/forum/profile.php?id=12117


http://www.tadwilliams.com/forum/profile.php?id=12116



(This is your Maladroit on wine. Don't try this at home kids.)

I changed my mind. Nothing to see here?

Last edited by Em (2011-08-12 13:41:44)

Magpie wrote:

*Empounce*
Haven't seen you in ages!

ACK!!!! *is pounced* RL. Go figure. *shrugs*

We're now apparently an attractive enogh target that spammers are recreating ancient existing threads just to try and blend in, limiting their spam to just their signature. I'd be grateful if people could keep an eye out for such threads by newly registered members and report them (you can see if something is an existing thread by running a google search for a sentence from the post to see if it matches anything else).

On it, thanks :)

I couldn't even delete the topic? Weird.

Oops! It's been so long since we set up forums, I totally forgot we had to do that. Sorry about that, folks!

Who's still up?/Who's already up?



SweksSakslums

http://www.tadwilliams.com/forum/profile.php?id=12246

And banned. Thanks.