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yes that would be nice, i must have moved 30 Russian spam posts in the last few hours.
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I was just wondering if it would be possible to restrict further posting to anyone who has been reported.
I.E. new Spammer posts , We use the report button , new spammer gets temporarily banned till a mod comes to check it out.
That and/or restricting new members to a few posts a day or 10 min. before reposting till they have been here a while.
I realize they have new spam mods , but it's getting out of hand lately.
Maybe a time ( zone ) based pole of your current mods , with a few more mods to fill in the 24 hour clock would help.
I just cleaned out 15 or so by one spam-bot. Man, they're a pain. (Not Russian though, for whatever that's worth.)
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Yea , I had seen one from sign-on to last visit was 45 minutes with 16 posts ... maybe you missed one
I was the de-spammer on another sight ... it was a lot of effort.
Soul Singin' wrote:Given the enormous volume of Russian porn delivered to this forum on an hourly basis ...
Would it be possible to set a filter which automatically deletes any post with the words:
"секс" = "sex"
"видео" = "video"
"порно" = "porno"
.
Well, it's possible to censor words but just in a way where the bad word gets replaced with something else so it will not really help. Unless I'm a really dumb and are missing something basic I don't think there is a way to prevent a post with certain word actually being posted.
I was just wondering if it would be possible to restrict further posting to anyone who has been reported.
No, and if it was I doubt we would enable it since that would be a 'nice' way to silence someone. Report the guy and he'll shut up until and admin shows up...
That and/or restricting new members to a few posts a day or 10 min. before reposting till they have been here a while.
Not a good idea either. Many register to get help with a problem and it can sometimes take a page or two with rapid posting back and forth to get it resolved.
Our best bet I guess would be to prevent the bots from registering in the first place... easier said than done. (Hopefully) the server people are looking for solutions.
Lavene wrote:Our best bet I guess would be to prevent the bots from registering in the first place...
And to have enough spam-killers willing to do the quick removing .
If you (the admins) need more of them, just ask. I've thought in the beginning that I'm too new here to apply...
Because let’s face it, the unfortunate aspect of software development is that it involves humans. Mewling, disorganized, miserably analog humans. Sometimes they smell bad.
Well, it's possible to censor words but just in a way where the bad word gets replaced with something else so it will not really help. Unless I'm a really dumb and are missing something basic I don't think there is a way to prevent a post with certain word actually being posted.
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