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Corrosive Joeseph
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Holy shit............ The WHOLE first page of todays posts is spammed......... YES........ THE WHOLE PAGE
/CJ
Being well adjusted to a sick society is no measure of one's mental health
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symboom
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Got one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRumer
Spammers software
XRumer is a piece of software made for spamming[1] online forums and comment sections. It is marketed as a program for search engine optimization and
was created by BotmasterLabs. It is able to register and post to forums (forum spam) with the aim of boosting search engine rankings. The program is
able to bypass security techniques commonly used by many forums and blogs to deter automated spam, such as account registration, client detection,
many forms of CAPTCHAs, and e-mail activation before posting. The program utilises SOCKS and HTTP proxies in an attempt to make it more difficult for
administrators to block posts by source IP and features a proxy checking tool to verify the integrity and anonymity of the proxies used.
Interesting there is a user with that username
He would post test just a test its the 2nd time i saw that ppst thwn he deletes it
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S.C. Wack
bibliomaster
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This spam wave is not of lurkers. Why not disable registration altogether, until certain posted times when heavy moderation is planned.
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Vosoryx
Hazard to Others
Posts: 282
Registered: 18-6-2017
Location: British Columbia, Canada
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I'm pretty concerned about turning away legitimate new users, but yeah, i can actually see where you're coming from.
Maybe, on the registration page, we put something like this:
"Hello future ScienceMadness.org user.
Unfortunately, we are currently dealing with a very serious spam problem. As such, we have temporarily turned off registration.
But don't despair! We want you on the forum. We know it's a bit of a hassle, but if you could please send an email to scimadregistration@gmail.com [or
something like that] letting us know that you're an actual human and we will set you up an account and email it back to you. (Be sure to use the email
you want associated with the forum)
The username and password can both be changed later.
We're sorry for the inconvenience."
That email account can be patrolled by the mods and new accounts can be set up as needed.
Perhaps, if the email starts getting spammed, we could add in a "code" so that the email doesn't get spammed all to hell too. I dunno, something like:
"In the subject of the email, please include the name of the metal prepared by mixing copper and zinc, commonly found in plumbing and gas fittings.
This is so that we can find your email amongst the spam."
Then we could just search up every email in the inbox containing the word "brass" and find them all. And the code could be changed if the spammers get
really sophisticated. (I doubt this will happen tbh, they'll decide it's too much work and screw off.)
It would probably mean a few more mods but it would completely kill the spam problem. We could go back to normal once they give up.
"Open your mind son, before someone opens it for you." - Dr. Walter Bishop
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weilawei
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How about hashcash? Force a new user to do a time-consuming computation. Force another round to reply or make a new topic. It was originally developed
as a technique to cut down on email spam, but the situation here is exactly analogous.
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unionised
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Location: UK
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Can we get the system software to throw out posts that are not mainly in the Roman alphabet?
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Vosoryx
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Posts: 282
Registered: 18-6-2017
Location: British Columbia, Canada
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Hey look at that... The entire first page again.
Something needs to be done here, this is getting out of hand.
"Open your mind son, before someone opens it for you." - Dr. Walter Bishop
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WGTR
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That was three full pages of spam. Sigh. At least it's mostly gone now.
So far as I know I'm a "trusted reporter", so anyone else that is "trusted", or "semi-trusted" (has been here longer than 60 days and has more than 50
posts) can help nuke this stuff by reporting one of the posts from a given author. I usually report every spam post from an author (not just a few
posts) when I'm close to a computer, so if someone else just gets a few of them it should still take out all the trash.
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streety
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Posts: 110
Registered: 14-5-2018
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Is the automated spam deletion script working? I thought it was reported to be malfunctioning.
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j_sum1
Administrator
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It worked well today. I have been the one complaining about it because there have been a number of posts that I have reported and I know others have
reported and that are still hanging around hours later. But this morning I saw mass deletions of spam and five spammer accounts obliterated in the
time it took me to clear my inbox.
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MJ101
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Registered: 14-6-2018
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Yeah...that XRunnerTest is a little unnerving. If someone is using that to test, then all is well and how can we help?
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fusso
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Registered: 23-6-2017
Location: 4 ∥ universes ahead of you
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I think there are certain times when there's no mods/admins online due to time zones?
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GameBoy
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Leve the forum secure, and no need for anybody to "do" anything. No need to "protect" or "clean up" except maybe from few trolls rarely. There are
stupid people telling me after rain "go clean up that rain" or when some animal gets into property "go chase that animal out of property". These
people are stupid obviously, and real solution is to fix that broken roof through which rain falls inside, and close or fix that fence through which
larger animals go through. It's stupid to dry or chase. Similar to how doctors try to "treat" disease, instead of just not making (producing) them.
Charles Linden talked about this stupidity in his method by saying "anxiety can't be treated or healed" but only cause removed. Same is with forum,
leave that stuff to the software, not to humans, except small part. Sure we need doctors to do surgery in rare cases, but thinking that they will
protect us from our bad habits or death or solve all our problems for us is insane. Similar to how police and nobody can't protect us from abusers,
insane aka crazy people, evil people. Just one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSv8neBxd_w
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unionised
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Location: UK
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How?
Are you suggesting we don't let anyone post anything or that we don't allow any new members or what?
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fusso
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Registered: 23-6-2017
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Quote: Originally posted by GameBoy  | | Leve the forum secure, and no need for anybody to "do" anything. No need to "protect" or "clean up" except maybe from few trolls rarely. There are
stupid people telling me after rain "go clean up that rain" or when some animal gets into property "go chase that animal out of property". These
people are stupid obviously, and real solution is to fix that broken roof through which rain falls inside, and close or fix that fence through which
larger animals go through. It's stupid to dry or chase. Similar to how doctors try to "treat" disease, instead of just not making (producing) them.
Charles Linden talked about this stupidity in his method by saying "anxiety can't be treated or healed" but only cause removed. Same is with forum,
leave that stuff to the software, not to humans, except small part. Sure we need doctors to do surgery in rare cases, but thinking that they will
protect us from our bad habits or death or solve all our problems for us is insane. Similar to how police and nobody can't protect us from abusers,
insane aka crazy people, evil people. Just one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSv8neBxd_w |
And obviously one of the trolls that need to be protected,
cleaned up and eliminated is you.
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Tsjerk
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You are both bat shit crazy. If you can transfer the forum to a better secured platform I'm sure you will be welcomed a lot.
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diddi
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i agree with the timezone theory. i have watched helpless as a stream of threads appears. its to the point where if its full of spam, i just leave.
over it. i offered to be a spam killer but the forum software does not support that ability.
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DrP
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Another forum I am a member on limits the number of posts a 'new member' can post to 5 per day until it has been confirmed they aren't a bot, a
spammer or a troll (or some time has elapsed). That way if someone signs up to post spam then they only get 5 posts before it is locked automatically.
It works quite well other than the occasional gripe from someone who is genuine and wants to join a discussion on their first day of joining.
It doesn't completely fix it - but it helps prevent a lot of it.
\"It\'s a man\'s obligation to stick his boneration in a women\'s separation; this sort of penetration will increase the population of the younger
generation\" - Eric Cartman
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