GingerAdonis Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 As you may have noticed we've been getting a lot of Chinese spam the last couple of days. The spammers bypass the CAPTCHA and have realistic looking email addresses. Starting from today all new members need at least 1 approved post before their content shows. Plus we've hardened our other anti-spam measurements. Thanks. 3
Nubbie Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 What about all the temporary accounts being used for the spam (that post 1 thread and then never being used anymore), are they removed?
Broxzier Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 (edited) The new measurements don't seem to work, there's a new topic posted just now. Edit: Make that two Edited September 28, 2016 by Broxzier
YoloSweggLord Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 I can't see those topics, but they're showing up as unread on the forums front page, meaning that it looks like there's unread posts in that topic while I can't access said topic. Why don't we just ban posts containing to many non-english characters? I'd say 50 or more and the post can't be posted.
Nubbie Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 (edited) On 28/09/2016 at 13:27, YoloSweggLord said: Why don't we just ban posts containing to many non-english characters? Expand Requires filters etc I presume, and also, what if someone use a lot of different characters on the forum which could trigger a false positive - For example, ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Right Yolo? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Edited September 28, 2016 by Nubbie
YoloSweggLord Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 On 28/09/2016 at 13:29, Nubbie said: Requires filters etc I presume, and also, what if someone use a lot of different characters in the chat which could trigger a false positive - For example, ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Right Yolo? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Expand Yes but who's really gonna make a post with that many lennys? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 1
YoloSweggLord Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 On 28/09/2016 at 13:27, YoloSweggLord said: I can't see those topics, but they're showing up as unread on the forums front page, meaning that it looks like there's unread posts in that topic while I can't access said topic. Expand This is what I mean: It's quite irritating as I would like to see what is and isn't read so I can stay on top of the forums, so to speak.
Broxzier Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 That looks like a bug in the forums, deleted posts shouldn't be visible anywhere.
GingerAdonis Posted September 28, 2016 Author Posted September 28, 2016 Unfortunately the forum index cache seems to be invalid now until new posts are made in relevant forums (or until I find a way to force a new cache). The actual posts are indeed deleted and not new posts.
RuneLaenen Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 On 28/09/2016 at 13:31, YoloSweggLord said: Yes but who's really gonna make a post with that many lennys? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Expand A filter which filters relatively would be better. For example posts with over 10% non-english characters get filtered. this would have been an easy edit with the old custom (openrct.net) forum code but Im not sure how to do such thing with IPBoard.
GingerAdonis Posted September 28, 2016 Author Posted September 28, 2016 I had these kind of spammers before on a different board. After the same anti-spam measurements as these it stopped after a short while.
imlegos Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 "Words can not express how much I hate China right now" - Soldier In all seriousness, I still don't understand why a spambot is attacking us with Chinese advertisements for American collages, on a forum site that would register as English...
Nubbie Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 On 28/09/2016 at 15:10, imlegos said: In all seriousness, I still don't understand why a spambot is attacking us with Chinese advertisements for American collages Expand It's probably a person who isn't doing it to advertise - but to 'troll' The text doesn't seem to advertise much, instead talk about collages copied from websites and posted here
cascadia Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 On 28/09/2016 at 15:10, imlegos said: "Words can not express how much I hate China right now" - Soldier In all seriousness, I still don't understand why a spambot is attacking us with Chinese advertisements for American collages, on a forum site that would register as English... Expand On 28/09/2016 at 16:48, Nubbie said: It's probably a person who isn't doing it to advertise - but to 'troll' The text doesn't seem to advertise much, instead talk about collages copied from websites and posted here Expand I believe it has links to a college admissions help service. Also, posting spam on an active forum helps them increase their Google rank temporarily.
imlegos Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 Is it just me or is there still the name of a spam and a test by jarno in the forum list?
SensualEthiopianPolice Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 On 28/09/2016 at 17:18, cascadia said: I believe it has links to a college admissions help service. Also, posting spam on an active forum helps them increase their Google rank temporarily. Expand I'm pretty sure it's a bot
Broxzier Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 On 28/09/2016 at 17:18, cascadia said: Also, posting spam on an active forum helps them increase their Google rank temporarily. Expand Until Google finds out, in which case their website will be removed and blacklisted from all searches. Search engines give a domain a higher score when a lot of sites link to it, so they have been fighting people abusing their rating system by using linkfarms since forever.
cascadia Posted September 29, 2016 Posted September 29, 2016 On 28/09/2016 at 20:18, SensualEthiopianPolice said: I'm pretty sure it's a bot Expand Yes, it's a spambot run by the help service to boost themselves unfairly.
GingerAdonis Posted September 29, 2016 Author Posted September 29, 2016 On 28/09/2016 at 20:09, imlegos said: Is it just me or is there still the name of a spam and a test by jarno in the forum list? Expand It's the cache which I tried to clear but didn't work out as expected. Guess we'll have to wait for a new reply in those forums.
Nubbie Posted October 5, 2016 Posted October 5, 2016 As it keeps on spamming, a possible fix could be to analyze the wording being used and ban a specific keyword from posting, something that hardly would affect normal users and just stop the spammers
Nubbie Posted October 5, 2016 Posted October 5, 2016 On 05/10/2016 at 15:08, imlegos said: How many people here use chinese characters? Expand Almost none do as English seems to be the native one- but what I mean is banning one word that are being said in every spam mail which could be 'diploma, University, labourlawenhancment' (In chiniese of course) or any other letter that is just being said in every spam post
SensualEthiopianPolice Posted October 6, 2016 Posted October 6, 2016 On 06/10/2016 at 02:23, cascadia said: The spammers are back again. Expand what gave it away?
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