Seemed to have curbed it for now. They have likely run out of accounts for the time being, or potentially nuking their account before posting broke their script. Whatever the cause of the current slow down, I'll contact the appropriate users on getting this automatically flagged/moderated. However, meanwhile continue reporting them, I don't expect you to report every single one, but just report one in each section that it's happening, and put in the report message field that this is widespread, and not only that post you reported.
I'll then sit down, and battle these until they stop. I'll be keeping an eye out anyway for them. Indian section, Spanish section, and the Altcoin section were attacked, most of them should have been nuked. If I've missed any or they continue while not being dealt with report them for me, and other staff so we can handle it in a timely manner.
Update: I'm already aware of the everswap spam attack, which seems why we had a temporary lull for a little bit, probably swapped scripts or tinkered with it.
Update 2: Sorted all that I can see on patrol, reports, cleaned up Spanish, and Indian sections, as well as Tokens, and Altcoin announcements. Seems to be all quiet on these fronts now. I've also contacted the appropriate users to see if we can get these automatically identified in the future.
The return of the spam bots that the forum fought a year ago. New wave. Only this time, someone decided to spam with links to cloud mining. So far, everything is calm in the Russian section, but it can also get there. Based on the registrations, the attack was planned in advance. Hopefully the moderators will react quickly, or we will again get fake activity statistics for this month in future reports.
Ah we get loads. I've been fighting the same bots for months now, I've probably nuked well over thousand accounts, they're obviously linked, but they keep adapting to avoid any sort of automated detection. Plus, I know other staff have been fighting this particular one so likely they've had thousands upon thousands of accounts.
Which is the best procedure to deal with it?
Basically did the right thing. Report a couple, then if it does seem widespread, make a post here.
