kirkor Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Seems like the past 2 months have seen increased spam posts? Can we add a captcha or something to the account creation process to try to keep the bots out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators ladyshanny Posted July 21, 2017 Administrators Share Posted July 21, 2017 It's pretty brutal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeadowLily Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 They multiply like amoebas. With less mods it must take up a lot of your time to constantly delete these every day. There's got to be a solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeadowLily Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 There's a new crop of them out there, today. Strange ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellmaestra Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 I try to report them when I'm the first one up... :-) But I haven't been around the past week. Stephanie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators ladyshanny Posted August 22, 2017 Administrators Share Posted August 22, 2017 The mods are exasperated and are trying to push the powers to be to try whatever they have to in order to stem the flow. It's time consuming and looks trashy. We will cross our fingers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady49er Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Agreed! My 7 year old and I read the forums together (we're on Day 25), and I really don't feel like explaining "male enhancement" to her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators SugarcubeOD Posted October 5, 2017 Moderators Share Posted October 5, 2017 5 hours ago, Lady49er said: Agreed! My 7 year old and I read the forums together (we're on Day 25), and I really don't feel like explaining "male enhancement" to her. We do our best to get to them as soon as possible, but as there are only a handful of active mods and timezone differences, sometimes it gets a bit ugly... Congrats to you and your daughter, that's so awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeadowLily Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 The forum changes didn't slow them down. Now they're boldly posting in the forum feedback section. Kirkor to the rescue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators SugarcubeOD Posted October 6, 2017 Moderators Share Posted October 6, 2017 3 hours ago, MeadowLily said: The forum changes didn't slow them down. Now they're boldly posting in the forum feedback section. Kirkor to the rescue. They boldly post everywhere... we're working on it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeadowLily Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Here's some ideas. "The principle is very simple: raise the barrier for entry, and remove the pay-off for doing so. Raising the barrier will keep out the bots, and removing the payoff will stop the humans. Allowing spam onto your site and visible to search engines - for even a few minutes - *is* the payoff - because some small fraction of it will get indexed, which is all it takes. As long as that's happening you're actually attracting them. There are ways to completely prevent that payoff, but apparently people don't. You can queue new member posts for moderation (which is labor-intensive), you can delay guest access to all posts for a day (which isn't). I can think of other ways. Lots of people install bug zappers, but they're not keeping the meat in the fridge... My site is very hard to get into and there's no payoff, and I think this is a large part of why we see no spam. Simply hiding the registration question so people have to follow instructions to go looking for it has been amazingly effective. The fact that the answer requires domain knowledge and is not easily googled also helps. Since we don't get spammers coming through we can vet new registrations manually, as there are only a couple coming through a day. If we had an incursion they probably wouldn't get any further than that. And if they did, there's no payoff, because any spam they posted would be removed before it was visible to the search engines rather than sometime afterwards. To anyone who can read well enough to get into our site, this situation is perfectly clear." https://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=8066 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeadowLily Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Allowing spam onto a site and visible to search engines - for even a few minutes - *is* the payoff - because some small fraction of it will get indexed, which is all it takes. As long as that's happening it is actually attracting them. The spam uptick is increasing. Deleting them doesn't fix it, they are indexing themselves and multiplying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellmaestra Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 The Spammers have been really busy... the announcement section is chock full. :-( Stephanie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators SugarcubeOD Posted November 13, 2017 Moderators Share Posted November 13, 2017 1 hour ago, Bellmaestra said: The Spammers have been really busy... the announcement section is chock full. :-( Stephanie Ya, we've been battling... we're trying something new this week and I think it should really result in less to no spammers... if you see any, definitely report them and we do our best to erase as soon as we can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellmaestra Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 I try to report them, but today's hit was overwhelming! Thanks for all you do to clean up after these meanies! Stephanie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators SugarcubeOD Posted November 13, 2017 Moderators Share Posted November 13, 2017 17 minutes ago, Bellmaestra said: I try to report them, but today's hit was overwhelming! Thanks for all you do to clean up after these meanies! Stephanie I think we remove about five times what gets reported so it's a lot but we're working really hard for the members to try and clean this up because it's annoying and it looks bad! Stay tuned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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