Stupid Spammers

by **julzcompufreek** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:44 am

Anonymous wrote:Worth pointing out that the spammers have started to register again.

See: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10471

Yep, its been deleted, I am taking note of the registered users who are spamming. I think it may even be that posters second or third offence. Although it is not up to me to ban members, I only delete the posts. I think we'll be closely watching that poster...

by **Guest** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:52 am

Worth pointing out that the spammers have started to register again.

See: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10471

by **rovingcowboy** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:04 pm

Teknojnky wrote:I don't see any "Report" button/link to even report a bad post/spam.

there is a little icon above the message reply to the left of the name of the reply it looks like a peice of paper.

i right click on that link and save it.

then post it in a pm to the mod of my choice at that moment i try to remember which mods said not to send it to them but i forget most the time who said that?

but that is how i report them.

by **Teknojnky** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:36 pm

I don't see any "Report" button/link to even report a bad post/spam.

by **trixmoto** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:38 pm

I think there should be an easier way for users to tell mods about spam. Although personally I go through all the threads with new messages, especially those posted by guests, to make sure there is no new spam.

I always log in because I like being able to see which messages are new since I logged in, but I can understand that sometimes in other forums I want to just post a quick message and don't want to have to register, however quick and easy they say it is!

by **rovingcowboy** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:30 am

ramon fincken wrote:there are some 'visual confirmation' and dropdown selections for guest posting around..

the spammers themselfs are posting the messages so they are not bots, that can be stopped by them.

spammers wont join because we would beable to hunt them down and in the USA, they are inforcing the anitspamming laws if we catch them. weather or not it goes for online forums i don't know.

by **ramon fincken** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:26 am

there are some 'visual confirmation' and dropdown selections for guest posting around..

by **rovingcowboy** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:24 am

nope ain't going to happen i had them all say goodbye at the start of this thread.

by **pah68** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:19 am

You shouldn't stop guests from posting, there would only be about 10 people who would bother posting and five of those would be Keith's alter egos

by **rovingcowboy** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 1:58 am

that would make monkeys exe huge.

but somethings gotta be done.

there were 5 spammers i just sent pm's about to the mods.

2 of which were posted as i was just in the forum..

the trouble is one spammer tells another where they can post.

and if they are not blocked they will spam the forum out of any kind of useable place. they don't want to be members they just don't want people using the internet,

so when one spammer finds us they all find us which is why we can't allow guest posting anymore.

by **julzcompufreek** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:37 pm

-Users register on invitation only

I think I was thinking something along these lines as well. Maybe if it were possible to get the MediaMonkey program to generate a code that users have to key in before they post. So this way, even if you are a guest and just want to ask a question, you dont have to register. And if the post is detected as spam or marked as spam, the code is terminated and a new one, from a new download of MM will have to be generated. I dont think may spam bots or spammers will want to keep downloading a copy of MM to spam us.

I hope you get what I mean.

by **ramon fincken** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:15 pm

and the 'report post' to moderator mod is an option..

I'm working on a 'spam points' mod .. if X users with at least Y posts report a post as 'spam' it'll get autodeleted or moved the a 'bin' forum...

Ramon

by **Lowlander** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:29 pm

Well so far we value the option to allow annonymous or guest postings. IP's are logged but are relatively useless. The forum is open and approving posts would require a lot of work from forum moderators and admins and often leads to unsatisfied users.

The forum works well and the price we pay is some spam. I'll take that.

by **ramon fincken** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:21 pm

besides upgrading there are several things which are 'good'

-Set account activation to admin/user
( or both , this is possible )

-IP logger uppon registration

-Set forum permissions to usergroups

-Approve post

-Password protect a forum

-Minimum posts before PM or email allowed

-Users register on invitation only

and this one...
not to stop spam, but to 'hide' the new profiles:
http://www.phpbbinstallers.com/board/viewpost.php?p=225

by **Lowlander** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:03 pm

IP address logging is not effective due to proxies, dynamic IP's and botnets.

Nice read about visual confirmations.

But adding protections will probably help eleminate some more spam posts, but not the spam posts alltogether.

Stupid Spammers

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