jgln
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..meant to say around here these days.
A lot of spam around here there days...
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..meant to say around here these days.
Clann
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There sure is. One of the threads I started and has 5 pages got spammed. Lazy suckers didn't even bother to start their own thread!
runningweird
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i keep finding them in this all grain classifieds ad
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f16/all-grain-equipment-262924-new/
odd stuff, about properly fitted pants. what is the benefit to someone by doing this? hope they use their real email account to email them? a simple trolling is far more entertaining than this crap.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f16/all-grain-equipment-262924-new/
odd stuff, about properly fitted pants. what is the benefit to someone by doing this? hope they use their real email account to email them? a simple trolling is far more entertaining than this crap.
headbanger
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Seems to be a growing trend on all the forums... Several of the other forums I frequent have even suspended new registrations it's gotten so bad. Pretty sad really and I never have understood the point of it all.
I like them. They kinda flood out posts from Cape_brewing
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jsguitar
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Major spam bot action right now. I reported a few but don't see any mods on.
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Same here. That one dude bombed a dozen or so threads...
I was the admin on two forums in the past. One had about 30 members and one had around 130. Even at that small size, spamming was a major problem. I ended up requiring membership verification to combat it. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that doing this severely hurt my growth, which really sucks. On a forum of this size, I don't think there's anything that can be done without seriously changing the way things work and taking up a LOT more of the administrator's time. I feel for TX 
I posted a fairly lengthy response to one in "story" fashion. And it got deleted!
That's what I get for wasting time writing crappy stories in spam threads.
That's what I get for wasting time writing crappy stories in spam threads.
Man, I wish I had mod rights to delete spam! Saw 2 posts and a related blog today for some fancy shoes. I went to their site and left them a pretty hot email. Won't do any good, but it makes me feel better that they know I hate them.
I wonder if there's a way for Tx to give "limited" mod powers to a handful of senior members - just the ability to delete an obvious spam thread (or move it somewhere behind the wall, for later permanent deletion. Might lighten the load a bit on people like Yooper and Yuri and BierMuncher. Spam deletion was never a fun task.
yeah, everytime I click on the
Yeah, alternatively - maybe it can be set up so that if two or three people report a post as being spam, it goes into purgatory? Not just one person who clicks it - too easy for us to abuse that authority.
Yeah, how much beer do I send to TX to get spam delete rights?? I don't know if I want the responsibility to decide on arguments and such. But I'm generally surfing HBT most of the day at work anyway.
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I'm looking into our options. There has been an increase but I do have a few options.
It also gets heavier around the start of the holiday season, but so does registration so it gets tricky catching them without going through them one by one.
It also gets heavier around the start of the holiday season, but so does registration so it gets tricky catching them without going through them one by one.
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EdWort
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It's getting easier to delete and ban the spammer all in one action though.
runningweird
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Pick me pick me!
Spammers aren't as dumb as they appear. Their bots can do e-mail verification. They often create accounts, wait a month, potentially post a few innocuous "I agree" posts, then begin their reign of terror. Late at night, they get the run of the place until a mod wakes up and cleans up.
Thankfully, most spammers barely speak English, and the bots are relatively poor at posting using context cues, so the posts stand out like sore thumbs. Once a mod spots one or is notified, the decision to delete/ban is simple and quick.
I just can't believe that spam is still an effective tactic. I guess enough idiots click the links enough to warrant the spammers' existence.
Thankfully, most spammers barely speak English, and the bots are relatively poor at posting using context cues, so the posts stand out like sore thumbs. Once a mod spots one or is notified, the decision to delete/ban is simple and quick.
I just can't believe that spam is still an effective tactic. I guess enough idiots click the links enough to warrant the spammers' existence.
There's no "anti-spam bots" out there? Yelp has an automatic filter, I know that. How does something like that work?
We, too, have a set of rules/filters. They aren't perfect.
It's pronounced "shaow-dair".
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They are insidious.
The new trick is to sign up, post some harmless questions, leave the account alone for some time then go back and either edit in links or add them to their sigs.
There's no universal way of taking care of them as there is no universal spammer. They all have different ways and means.
The new trick is to sign up, post some harmless questions, leave the account alone for some time then go back and either edit in links or add them to their sigs.
There's no universal way of taking care of them as there is no universal spammer. They all have different ways and means.
