Spammers

Some things just can't be placed elsewhere. Have you been speeding and got fined? Or spotted a nice new Volvo on the web somewhere? All non-480 messages can be posted in this part of the board.

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Van
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Re: Spammers

Post by Van » Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:35 am

28 posts by Booklolkime
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Re: Spammers

Post by glasgowjim » Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:51 pm

over half an hour to despam the forum.

spams in every single thread on here.

this is way out of order need to get some kind of filter.

some of the cyrillic alphabet spammers put up porn pics , I find that really objectionable as I cant avoid looking at it when I go to delete thread.

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Re: Spammers

Post by volviz » Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:10 am

so what about manual approval for registration, or when you are just registred you can write only say in General or wastegate sectiojn to say Hi! and only after that you can access other parts....?
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Re: Spammers

Post by Captain Slow » Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:01 am

Theres only spam in the non 480 related stuff atm-looks lovely, so thankyou to the mods!
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Lula - 94 M Volvo 480GT Sold on...
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Re: Spammers

Post by Van » Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:02 pm

Check the member list for date joined. All recent members with zero post count and explicite websites can be banned. That will prevent a posting.
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Re: Spammers

Post by Captain Slow » Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:39 pm

Oremarawia or whatever its called has 28 posts....I often see that these spammers do 28 posts then bugger off? Any reason why?!
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Whitney - 95 N White celebration No.449/480 now with Ladyforatey
Lula - 94 M Volvo 480GT Sold on...
Daphne - 95 M volvo 440si 1.8 73,000K (sold :()

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Re: Spammers

Post by Van » Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:23 pm

These postings are done automated. They probably come from the same source. The reason for forum spam is to increase the number of hits and rank higher in search machines.
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Re: Spammers

Post by ChrisRidett » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:22 pm

Spammers are hard to fight off, if its any consolation, any and all forums have a dose at some stage.

the problem arises when a site is high on googles rankings for a search item that may be common. Then they post links on that site to try and generate traffic from the high rating site INTO their site.

The annoying thing is the more click-throughs they get, the higher the ranking goes on Google........its a self perpetuating problem.

I have a computer repair website, and they managed to find that my News items could be commented on !!! I found loads of spam for....Watches of all things!! Only way I could stop it was to disable the comments on the news items completely.

My mate runs an IT company that does paid and free websites they were operating for about a year then they suddenly they got seriously spammed. Their ratings shot through the roof on the searches for free websites, but it almost crashed their servers!

the problem is striking the balance between making it accessible for people but awkward enough for the spammers.
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Re: Spammers

Post by Van » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:56 am

It is possible to get rid of the spam but it takes a little work. I'm a moderator at a forum that would be spammed about as bad as this. For a start, all spamposts would be removed asap. The poster be banned. Like I suggested above, I went through the members list and banned all zero post count members with suspicious nicknames and/or websites. After cleaning everyday I wiped all new suspicious members.
The admins also work on prevention and installed several tools to prevent spamming.
We're almost spamfree now, very rarely we find something. But it takes a little of work.
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Re: Spammers

Post by volviz » Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:12 pm

another huge attack today :shock:
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Re: Spammers

Post by Big Brother » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:59 pm

A plan is currently being worked on to bring this under control
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Re: Spammers

Post by volviz » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:31 am

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sounds good :mrgreen:
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Re: Spammers

Post by Joolz » Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:40 pm

deleting 50+ a day since last week, its getting quite bad now....dont know how long I can keep this up, lets hope there's a solution soon :crazy:
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Re: Spammers

Post by glasgowjim » Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:05 pm

defo getting a lot worse and the porn pic posts are returning would make you sick!

must get some form of protection soon.

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Re: Spammers

Post by Van » Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:05 pm

Adblock? I see no pictures :cry:
Thanks for your hard work, Glasgowjim!
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Re: Spammers

Post by volviz » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:51 am

If you need some deleting help I could volunteer ;)
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Re: Spammers

Post by bkf_uk » Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:27 pm

well at least i can see the spammers are posting in the right section of the forum - non 480 related!
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Re: Spammers

Post by Joolz » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:11 pm

that was a mammoth session of over 170 spams deleted :kill: :kill:
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Re: Spammers

Post by Big Brother » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:13 pm

two and a half pages in the 'Non 480 related' forum
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Re: Spammers

Post by glasgowjim » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:24 pm

Just found myself online with 5 spammers

5 spammers , versus 1 mod :kill: no contest only 1 winner and 1 result :hopping: :rofl:

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