can you describe why banning tor exit node ip 's is useless?
or how we could better utilize our time removing birthday bot accounts.
is spam here still outta control?
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spammers
Re: spammers
A tor exit node can be (ab)used by many web users, it can be used by spammers but also by legitimate members. Spammers will always be a problem without good preventative measures, just banning IPs won't stop them - FDN quite simply needs better captcha. This has always been the case.llivv wrote:can you describe why banning tor exit node ip 's is useless?
googlemail accounts are abused by spammers as well, maybe ban registrations from googlemail...? A lot of spammers are from Russia and China so why not just ban those countries..........
I don't much care about the spam - but banning IP addresses is a matter of some concern and should concern all members... as far as I can tell not much has changed - there are just a few more fire fighters fighting the same fire...llivv wrote:is spam here still outta control?
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Re: spammers
IP addresses are not unique to a single individual for many reasons. For example, many ISP allocate IP addresses to their customers from a pool. Banning an IP address could easily result in the wrong people being excluded.
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Eric
Re: spammers
Yes, i can confirm that.cynwulf wrote:Just banning the spammers by IP address is not helpful for those of us using tor to access the forums while at work..,
I was IP-banned, two or three days ago. And short after that unbanned again (which i didn't fully understand).
I also can't access google due to usage of tor.
I for one simply don't use sites which do such (No, i will not give up on tor, and other people probably won't neither, else they wouldn't use it ).
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Re: spammers
The points are well taken, thanks.
I don't have access to ban anything, so learning what issues are relevant
helps me understand what is happening while I delete the occasional spam posts I see.
I did have a weird view of my routers admin screens yesterday.
Annoying, but no big deal yet.
Should I "stop" posting links to youtube music?
If it effects how the forum is crawled, I don't want to be adding
to the problem.
I don't have access to ban anything, so learning what issues are relevant
helps me understand what is happening while I delete the occasional spam posts I see.
I did have a weird view of my routers admin screens yesterday.
Annoying, but no big deal yet.
Should I "stop" posting links to youtube music?
If it effects how the forum is crawled, I don't want to be adding
to the problem.
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