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linuxmint7 last edited by
Moderators are not on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So you will get some moments during the day/night (depending on your time zone) when spam may not get removed until a moderator next logs on.
To make matters worse, the spammers test the forum at various times during the day/night and work out when are the best times to post their rubbish, when it will stand the best chance of staying up here longer.
Moderators are only human after all, and we do have a life outside of these forums, though we could sit tied to our computers and remove every piece of spam as it comes in, but that would not be much of a life, but the forum would be completely free of spam, hmmmmmmm!.
Oh, I was not on here early this morning, I decided to have a lay in seeing as it's Sunday and all, this is possible why there was a hoard of spam still on here waiting to greet all who logged in.
It's an unforgiving job.
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christoph142 last edited by
I think I removed about 40 - 50 posts earlier today... what a Sunday morning...
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A Former User last edited by
It's a shame that presumably you can't set up a filter to remove any posts that contain numbers ten or more digits long.
That would zap most of the "Black Magic" spams which all contain an international phone number.
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A Former User last edited by
What if, in a thread, say, about public organisation or broadcasting companies, I post a feedback or call-in number of theirs?
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A Former User last edited by
What if, in a thread, say, about public organisation or broadcasting companies, I post a feedback or call-in number of theirs?
It's a learned lesson - no automatons!!!Well obviously that would get caught by the filter as well, but are you really likely to be doing that here?
I've never seen a post here with a phone number in it apart from spam posts.
Automated systems are never ideal of course, they always make mistakes.
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A Former User last edited by
...are you really likely to be doing that here?
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A Former User last edited by
In that case so do the spammers unfortunately!
I suppose they could make everyone fill in a CAPTCHA before they post.
Although that would be a bit of a pain, it would stop the spam robots immediately!
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A Former User last edited by admin
There's this thread to read.
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A Former User last edited by
There's this thread to read.
We could consider suggestions made there...It's not that there was less spam during the day. We are just more likely to catch it rather immediately when we're awake...
I agree, though. There should be a set of buzzwords / patterns that need mod approval to show up. I'm getting tired of removing dozens of these senseless posts every day.From the sinking thread.
I agree with the above suggestion.
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blackcoder last edited by
I suppose they could make everyone fill in a CAPTCHA before they post.
There is a CAPTCHA when registering. Somehow they are successful at registering - that would be quite good for a bot.
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A Former User last edited by
I didn't realise that there was already a CAPTCHA for registering!
My account simply transferred across from the old myopera forum, so I've never had to register here.
CAPTCHAs are a pretty good defence against robot submissions, so that would imply that at least the spammers' registering is done by a real person, which is really quite frightening!
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A Former User last edited by
I'm considering to start a special thread like "Constructive Suggestions on A non-Destructive anti-spam Filter" - what do you think?:)
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mp71930 last edited by
ooo i hope they dont use CAPTCHA for replies. but if needs be so be it. maybe there will be less spam to cleanup. then the mods can kick back, chillout more. lol?
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greetings?:)
