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Ekaterin Moderator on this forum Last page view: 5769 days, 20 hours, 40 minutes and 4 seconds ago. |
Jan, where are you? It seems that recently there has been at least one spam post a day in the ADOM forum, usually pornographic. I sent you an email mentioning a couple of repeat offenders but you never replied. |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 1 day, 5 hours, 58 minutes and 33 seconds ago. |
Sorry about that, I did read the mails. Just not sure what I can do about it :( The IP's used are from all over the place (New York, Madrid and Bangkok so far). Seems unlikely to "just" be a disruptive vandal, most likely a bot net of some kind. Forum spam seems to be a growing trend unfortunately. May have to look into making some sort of spam filter if this become a constant problem. Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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Ekaterin Moderator on this forum Last page view: 5769 days, 20 hours, 40 minutes and 4 seconds ago. |
There were three more from 203.113.13.* today, which I have now deleted. Should I be reporting them all in detail to you? |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 1 day, 5 hours, 58 minutes and 33 seconds ago. |
Are they all the same, or different each time? If you could e-mail me a couple of examples the next time they pop up I could try to put up some countermeasures if they follow a predictable pattern. And thanks for keeping things clean, I know I haven't been too active around here lately... Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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Ekaterin Moderator on this forum Last page view: 5769 days, 20 hours, 40 minutes and 4 seconds ago. |
Email sent - could you let me know whether you received it? Since I had to include the spams I'm a bit worried that your spam filter could mistake it for spam itself. While I am happy to continue helping to moderate these forums, please be aware of the following:
I hope that Jan and Iridia can take up the slack during this unavoidable busy time. |
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Taz Registered user Registered user Last page view: 5029 days, 18 hours, 1 minute and 37 seconds ago. |
maybe this forum is in some list that spammers from all over refer to :( Taz: A potion of gain attributes (4s) is lying here. Suddenly a stone block hits your head! Something on the ground is smashed to pieces! PeanutGod: Awwww no! How harsh is that! This is where you need the artefact 'mop and bucket'. |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 1 day, 5 hours, 58 minutes and 33 seconds ago. |
Yeah got it. I don't trust any content based spamfilters (ironic since I probably have to make one for the forum), I use origin blacklists instead (works great) pluss everyone I've exchanged mail with at least once is on my whitelist so even if your ISP get blacklisted for hosting too many spammers your mail should still arive safely. I'll see if I can find some time to do something with this over the weekend, kinda busy with work and stuff too myself. Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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Ekaterin Moderator on this forum Last page view: 5769 days, 20 hours, 40 minutes and 4 seconds ago. |
This is an advance warning that in November, I shall be playing in a Nethack tournament ( http://nethack.devnull.net/ ). Because of this, I may not be able to get on the forums, certainly not every day. Although the spam problem has lessened, there is still some (I deleted two this morning), and you may want to find another moderator while I am away. [Edited 1 time, last edit on 10/18/2006 at 05:18 (GMT -5) by Ekaterin] |
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Iridia Moderator on this forum YASD Last page view: 3759 days, 23 hours, 48 minutes and 54 seconds ago. |
Well, I guess I could take over for a month. I know I'm kind of out of the loop when it comes to this forum, but I know spam when I see it :P Actually I've already deleted two spam posts. Die Gedanken sind Frei [Edited 1 time, last edit on 10/29/2006 at 15:10 (GMT -5) by Iridia] |
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Ekaterin Moderator on this forum Last page view: 5769 days, 20 hours, 40 minutes and 4 seconds ago. |
Thank you very much, Iridia! That would be really helpful. |
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Blacklion Registered user Jellies... BAH! Last page view: 5009 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes and 50 seconds ago. |
I have a suggestion: a) some way to prevent spambots to post. Posting without registering is the problem AFAIK. Although they seem to be able to post even after that sometimes. b) some new moderator. Although the forum (seems) to be really cool, no fights between people (or it gets edited before I see). The spam is the only problem. Since a would be preventive, and moderators aren't needed for much else than deleting spam, I think that non-regged shouldn't be able to post. At least I can't figure many good sides on it (except sometime's it's nice when you're too lazy to log in :P) |
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Iridia Moderator on this forum YASD Last page view: 3759 days, 23 hours, 48 minutes and 54 seconds ago. |
I come here every day--and the spam is posted every day. If you see spam more than a day old, then you can blame it on me... otherwise--well, I do have a day job, you know. Die Gedanken sind Frei |
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Cat Lord Lord Registered user Not really Last page view: 5449 days, 8 hours, 5 minutes and 18 seconds ago. |
Yeah, I came on one night and there was three. It would still be bad if you had to register. That would mean they'd spend around thirty seconds making an account. I would say, get a spam blocker. If it has words like "porn","buy", or anything of that nature it would be sent to a moderator. If it was about things related to ADOM, it would be posted. That would be a strain on the moderators, so it might not be a good idea. Otherwise some spam filter would work. Homework is not meant for home! It's a sick verbal coincidence! -My brother |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4243 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes and 44 seconds ago. |
It wouldn't really be a strain on the moderators, since they have to read and delete the posts anyway. I would have thought a filter like that make actually make it easier? Another thing to filter out is loks of successful links and attempts at html tags. Not sure how easily it could be implemented on whatever forum system Jan is running though. Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 1 day, 5 hours, 58 minutes and 33 seconds ago. |
Yeah spam filter would be good. Problem is the forum system is 100% home grown, so I'll have to program it myself. That said I've analyzed a few dozen of these spam posts and unless this spam bot is adaptive I think I have figured out an effective way to block it without any coladeral dammage. Just uploaded it, let me know if you notice any difference. Just a quick question: Have there been any in-thread posts of this kind too? I've only seen the new thread kind myself, but I vaguely remember Ekaterin mentioning some spam beeing posted in existing threads too when this first started... Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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Iridia Moderator on this forum YASD Last page view: 3759 days, 23 hours, 48 minutes and 54 seconds ago. |
Yes, there have been such posts. I've only seen and deleted one, but there might be more. Die Gedanken sind Frei |
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Iridia Moderator on this forum YASD Last page view: 3759 days, 23 hours, 48 minutes and 54 seconds ago. |
Well, something seems to be working. I didn't have to delete anything at all today. Die Gedanken sind Frei |