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My negative trust rating is reflective of a personal vendetta by someone on default trust.
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February 03, 2014, 06:19:49 AM |
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Little proposition... perhaps could could get a general sense of where the traffic is coming from (through the proxies).. and perhaps ban said countries of origin from being able to register.
That seems a little extreme. I have a message board of my own that got hit by spam bots, and to solve it, we ended up having discovered the source countries from where the spam was coming from, so we banned those countries, and voila, no more spam. lol. Yeah, it was at the expense of potentially banning some potentially new legit users from those 'banned' countries... but the board was a lot better off without the spam. The people who registered from those "banned" countries had to be manually approved by a moderator or administrator, so we got all the 'legit' users. tl;dr: Ban countries that spam from registering, by sending them to a "moderating" queue, and manually approve users that mods think are legit. This quickly weeds/purges out the fake accounts. 2 spamers 1 from U.S. 1 from EU Ban EU and US you lost 90% of your users
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February 03, 2014, 10:14:53 AM |
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Little proposition... perhaps could could get a general sense of where the traffic is coming from (through the proxies).. and perhaps ban said countries of origin from being able to register.
That seems a little extreme. I have a message board of my own that got hit by spam bots, and to solve it, we ended up having discovered the source countries from where the spam was coming from, so we banned those countries, and voila, no more spam. lol. Yeah, it was at the expense of potentially banning some potentially new legit users from those 'banned' countries... but the board was a lot better off without the spam. The people who registered from those "banned" countries had to be manually approved by a moderator or administrator, so we got all the 'legit' users. tl;dr: Ban countries that spam from registering, by sending them to a "moderating" queue, and manually approve users that mods think are legit. This quickly weeds/purges out the fake accounts. 2 spamers 1 from U.S. 1 from EU Ban EU and US you lost 90% of your users The EU isn't a country and I doubt they'd be silly enough to ban the entire of America. Banning countries probably isn't going to stop spam as I'm sure they'll be smart enough to use a proxy or get around it someway.
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February 10, 2014, 10:45:09 PM |
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Generally, you can tell if they are bots by checking 2 or more posts. One post is usually not enough to know for sure.
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February 10, 2014, 11:10:30 PM |
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Generally, you can tell if they are bots by checking 2 or more posts. One post is usually not enough to know for sure. User Omikifuse has copied several including one of my posts, but he might be doing it manually. Two of them have also copied the exact same posts as previous bots (or people who were copying and pasting).
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February 10, 2014, 11:27:04 PM |
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Generally, you can tell if they are bots by checking 2 or more posts. One post is usually not enough to know for sure. User Omikifuse has copied several including one of my posts, but he might be doing it manually. Two of them have also copied the exact same posts as previous bots (or people who were copying and pasting). If he's doing it manually, it might just be that he has the same opinion. An additional spot-check showed no problems.
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February 10, 2014, 11:45:22 PM |
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Generally, you can tell if they are bots by checking 2 or more posts. One post is usually not enough to know for sure. User Omikifuse has copied several including one of my posts, but he might be doing it manually. Two of them have also copied the exact same posts as previous bots (or people who were copying and pasting). If he's doing it manually, it might just be that he has the same opinion. An additional spot-check showed no problems. I very much doubt they're listening to the same obscure songs as some of the other users who posted in that thread.
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Sonny
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February 18, 2014, 06:40:26 AM |
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February 18, 2014, 06:56:11 AM |
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Thanks.
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February 19, 2014, 11:14:16 AM |
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What's the point of bots creating a lot of these accounts? What do the owners get out of it?
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February 19, 2014, 11:53:36 AM |
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What's the point of bots creating a lot of these accounts? What do the owners get out of it?
Many different reasons. Some have sig deals, some just build up postcounts.
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February 19, 2014, 11:55:34 AM |
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17Np17BSrpnHCZ2pgtiMNnhjnsWJ2TMqq8 I routinely ignore posters with paid advertising in their sigs. You should too.
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February 19, 2014, 01:22:32 PM Last edit: February 19, 2014, 02:46:15 PM by hilariousandco |
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February 19, 2014, 03:08:55 PM |
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Got em, thanks.
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February 19, 2014, 04:34:49 PM |
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Waaah I though seeing multiple users saying the exact same thing is normal ,No worries for them though as newbies can room freely in this forum now.
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February 20, 2014, 03:11:13 PM |
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Raya
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February 20, 2014, 03:13:04 PM |
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Hilariousandco should be made staff you are doing a great job!
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February 20, 2014, 03:14:43 PM |
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Hilariousandco should be made staff you are doing a great job! Haha, I post a lot so consequently notice a lot.
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February 20, 2014, 03:30:51 PM |
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