05-03-2012, 05:13 AM | #1 |
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Spam sandwiches
There's been a sudden uptick in spambots this morning. When we get multiple spams in one thread, should we report each one, or will a single report be sufficient?
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05-03-2012, 07:17 AM | #2 |
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Re: Spam sandwiches
If they're all from the same spambot, I do a single report and a single "# posts from $foo reported" posting. That appears to be sufficient notification.
Edit: I don't just say "spam reported" - theres a lag between a spambot's entire posting history being deleted and the "reported" posts being deleted, so some folks might wonder why I appear to have reported an on-topic post. I always include the spambot's "name" in my post - but I never quote the spam itself.
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05-03-2012, 08:49 AM | #3 |
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Re: Spam sandwiches
Very useful idea. I'll have to remember that. Thanks! ;-)
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05-04-2012, 01:29 AM | #4 |
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Re: Spam sandwiches
The fight against spam has taken an ever harder turn with the invention of things like amazon's mechanical turk, where a spammer can pay someone a pittance for every post they make on a forum hawking some product, it also makes things like captcha less effective :(
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05-04-2012, 10:58 AM | #5 | |
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Re: Spam sandwiches
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Especially when the spammer did, like, 40+ spam posts in different threads before being caught. Ugh.
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05-04-2012, 11:55 AM | #6 |
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Re: Spam sandwiches
Would it help to have a convention for "reported as spam" text or tags for which to search?
Compliance makes that problematic, so a better solution would be forum software that creates that "reported as spam" post when you click the "report as spam" button, and ties them together so that they mutually annihilate when the mod okays the report. (And now the nuclear reactor sense of "moderator" is stuck in my head.) |
05-04-2012, 12:01 PM | #7 |
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Re: Spam sandwiches
Personally, nah, it wouldn't help that much to have people try to conform to a report format. I mean, searching on "reported as spam" should be fine if I think to do it. O:> (But thank you for the thought!)
People can also delete their own spam-reports if they see them [orphaned], of course, and I've seen some reports reported as unnecessary (and I went and tidied them), though I don't know how the other mod-capable folks feel about those. (I do note that if it's me doing the spam-catching, I ban first and clean up afterwards. If you see spam from someone who's got the strikethrough and "banned" on their name, give it a few minutes before reporting the post -- chances are good that it'll vanish on its own.)
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05-08-2012, 08:34 AM | #8 |
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Re: Spam sandwiches
Regarding post deletions: while I can ban any spammer, I can't delete posts outside the GURPS jurisdiction, nor do I get reports from outside it. And I see the most spams in Roleplaying In General. I usually sweep RPiG for bans on EU mornings. No idea how often their actual posts are deleted.
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05-14-2012, 10:59 AM | #9 | |
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05-14-2012, 11:02 AM | #10 |
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Re: Spam sandwiches
Infraction -> Spam. That is a de facto permanent ban.
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