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    • wrapper
      wrapper Moderators last edited by

      I want to leave all spam accounts. Deleting them plays into the spammers hand. The captcha seems like a protection racket.

      The spammers are being marked as spam by my Bot and indexed as such on Google, Bing and Yahoo. I just get a list in the morning and tick any “real members”

      I am very surprised the spammers think continuing to spam us is a good idea? … happy days …

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      • Wellenreiter
        Wellenreiter Moderators last edited by

        can your script also delete the posts of marked spammers?

        if a real member is flagged, we can manually undelete his posts

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        • wrapper
          wrapper Moderators last edited by

          No, my (simple) macro works on the web page, not at admin level. Another reason for not just deleting them straight away is, trying not to delete real posts or members by accident.

          I was hoping the posts of spammers might not show up, once they are tagged? They disappear from the members list…

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          • wrapper
            wrapper Moderators last edited by

            I found this site very good, open source, interesting and anti spam.

            http://www.stopforumspam.com/

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            • U
              uncle_muddy administrators last edited by

              Looks like your winning the fight there wrapper, only 1 spam post to great me this morning!

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              • wrapper
                wrapper Moderators last edited by

                Rough estimate, spam members reduced to 2/3. And that delayed, slightly while “they” worked around it.

                There at least 3 types of spam bot being used and each has a few IP ranges. They (spammer) also probably read this so rather not say what we’re trying public yet.

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                • U
                  uncle_muddy administrators last edited by

                  Erm…some of us delete spam post occasionally…just for fun :D

                  Cheers for any help you can give Mog :)

                  Hopefully some of the new anti-spam services we have lined up once we switch software should help us out

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                  • wrapper
                    wrapper Moderators last edited by

                    Goooood Morniiiing VietSpam !

                    and Iawgom !

                    1st full day : SpamMembers 1/10 SpamPost 1/5

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                    • Wellenreiter
                      Wellenreiter Moderators last edited by

                      good to read that :)

                      less work to delete that stuff

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                      • U
                        uncle_muddy administrators last edited by

                        Also looks like the measures added as part of the forum switch are starting to work…

                        11 New users in 24hrs, some of which maybe real! but this number used to be 2x or 3x that amount
                        33 Posts blocked from even making it onto the foum

                        I’m sure we won’t be winning for long, but it looks promising so far

                        UM

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                        • wrapper
                          wrapper Moderators last edited by

                          I can tell which members are real, not many so far. I note that NodeBB has moderator final confirm before a member is allowed to first post, I suggest we go with that. The bots don’t respond to PMs…

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