Spam?

[Ian S.]

Recently there is a huge influx of spam. You guys are probably working on it, but it doesn't seem to be getting deleted yet.

 

[ncc50446]

I think what they need to do (Or maybe they already have?) is for new members, members with fewer than say..10 posts, need to fill out a Captcha or something..To make it a little more difficult to spam..It's been pretty bad recently.

Or, check the title of new members. If it contains a bunch of special characters, to block them..They all seem to contain special characters, making it rather easy to spot as spam anyways..

[Raa]

That's crazy!

 

This happened yesterday too...

[duoi Veteran]

Fixed. I banned Mudslag so that no more political spam gets in the way of our Korean online casinos.

[Charisma Veteran]

I'm on it too.

[HawkMan]

Fixed. I banned Mudslag so that no more political spam gets in the way of our Korean online casinos.

 

Nice, that was better than a warwagon joke. 

[Draggendrop Veteran]

/s...If there was a way to "filter" and "reroute" these spammers to Canada's federal political channel website......they'll think twice after that terrible visual imprint....Cheers.....

[MikeChipshop Member]

Just report it and let them take care of it.

 

To be fair, for a forum as active and large as Neowin, we see very little spam compared to other places.

Second only to annoying spam, is threads about spam.

[Ian S.]

Just report it and let them take care of it.

 

To be fair, for a forum as active and large as Neowin, we see very little spam compared to other places.

Second only to annoying spam, is threads about spam.

Rude much?

[MikeChipshop Member]

Rude much?

 

Not at all. Take it as friendly advice from a guy who's run plenty of forums over the years. Threads about spam are as bad as spam.

[Ian S.]

Not at all. Take it as friendly advice from a guy who's run plenty of forums over the years. Threads about spam are as bad as spam.

OK, but I just wanted to let them know. BTW I still see more spam.

[Barney T. Administrators]

Our spam filters help, but every once now and again we get a flood of spam that requires our moderators to work overtime to clear it. At times it takes a while to get it back under control. If we tweak the filters too much, we get some new members getting flagged as spammers. Thanks for everyone's understanding!

[The Evil Overlord]

Fixed. I banned Mudslag so that no more political spam gets in the way of our Korean online casinos.

ROFL, priceless

[PinkDragonFur]

Sadly it happened again this morning

[Haggis Veteran]

yup all cleared, first thing i did when i got to work

[nyolc8]

Happening again

[xendrome]

Got em, just report it and we'll take care of it.

[President Devil]

Can you track the origins of the accounts and just block those? Or do IP addresses, etc, change every single time?

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

I report spam the second I see it. Good job to all the mods and admins. Your hard work is greatly appreciated.

[ITOps]

If the forum is using https://www.invisionpower.com/features/spam I am surprised it is not automatically catching these.  Could be a new group that has new methods causing all the issues as it does not appear to be just this forum with the similar spamming.

[tsupersonic]

Seriously what is up with all the spam within the past week?!

[+Warwagon MVC]

Seriously what is up with all the spam within the past week?!

 

[MikeM97]

Not the holiest angel out there,but...That isn't something normal at all...

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Seriously what is up with all the spam within the past week?!

Indeed it's starting to get annoying

[Tuskd]

Are they Korean? Also they seem to advertise about "snip"...

Edited July 14, 2015 by zhangm
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