Getting Harder On Spammers
CEans,
Community boards like ours aren't new to spam and spammers. A popular community always attracts spammers like sugar-cube attracts flies. We found out that in the last 2-3 days, CE has constantly been under spammer attack and we've been manually removing spam accounts and posts. Finally we decided to automate the process.
We now have a system that checks every new registration against a central database of known spammers. If found, the system will put them into moderation queue so that we can look at them and approve their registration.
We're going to test the system for a few days and if the spam continues, we'll launch another assault on spammers by checking each and every post [on forums, on profile pages, on conversations etc.] that the new members make on CE. This process is completely automated and does not involve human intervention.
It is possible that the system may put some of the legit registration in the moderation queue. We apologies for the inconvenience in advance.
The regular members shouldn't be affected by the system. If you think something is out of place; feel free to inform us through this thread.
Community boards like ours aren't new to spam and spammers. A popular community always attracts spammers like sugar-cube attracts flies. We found out that in the last 2-3 days, CE has constantly been under spammer attack and we've been manually removing spam accounts and posts. Finally we decided to automate the process.
We now have a system that checks every new registration against a central database of known spammers. If found, the system will put them into moderation queue so that we can look at them and approve their registration.
We're going to test the system for a few days and if the spam continues, we'll launch another assault on spammers by checking each and every post [on forums, on profile pages, on conversations etc.] that the new members make on CE. This process is completely automated and does not involve human intervention.
It is possible that the system may put some of the legit registration in the moderation queue. We apologies for the inconvenience in advance.
The regular members shouldn't be affected by the system. If you think something is out of place; feel free to inform us through this thread.
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anuraadhaSuper #-Link-Snipped-#! 😀 But how do I find who is spamming so that I can inform? I don't understand that part. -
Saandeep SreerambatlaIf you find advertisements in any posts, then please use the report option at the end of each post. That helps!
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Kaustubh KatdareMembers have the facility to 'report' anything that they think is objectionable. There's a 'report' link in all of the posts. Once you click on the report link, you'll have to enter the reason why you think it's objectionable. That helps us determine what to do with the post.
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anuraadhaThank you #-Link-Snipped-#. I saw one 2 days back in one of the posts. I dint know that was a spam. Will report if I find any.
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anuraadhaDone Bigge! 😀
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Saandeep SreerambatlaI have a question here, I just have edited a post it gave the synopsis of some book and gave a link in one of the popular site to buy that book and steps to buy that book so will our new spam controller (lets call it that way) will be able to read and report to us about these kind of threads?
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Ramani AswathI too found a few obvious spam mails (first posts) and reported them in the last two days.
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Kaustubh Katdare
Thank you. We've taken the next step already. Now every new post is checked for spam for all the new members until they reach a certain post count. The mechanism only affects the new members.bioramaniI too found a few obvious spam mails (first posts) and reported them in the last two days.
The spam engine has already caught a few spammers in the last 3 hours. -
Kaustubh Katdare
The spam checker only checks for spam posted by the new members (based on registration date and post count). It does not affect regular members.English-ScaredI have a question here, I just have edited a post it gave the synopsis of some book and gave a link in one of the popular site to buy that book and steps to buy that book so will our new spam controller (lets call it that way) will be able to read and report to us about these kind of threads? -
ErAnushkaI've no experience in this, but I'm active on forum sites since I was 15 years old, spam is everywhere.. you can block the IP range 😀 or you can send a complain to their ISP 😀
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Jeffrey Arulrajit is better to ban people who spam about in forums
they really dont have the slightest idea of their actions hindering others quest -
Kaustubh KatdareIt's hard to stop the human spammers and I can confidently say that the spam inspector we've in place does a great job of finding out the robots that post spam on the site.
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