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Posted by: Ivek23
« on: January 15, 2014, 06:53:57 am »

BTW:

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Notice for Userscripts.org the attention:

Even there are in the second half of yesterday and today at night to limit the addition of spam messages, edit the mess and clean up the spam scripts.
Posted by: Ivek23
« on: January 13, 2014, 01:44:13 pm »

Here in the forum have been complaints, how many spam posts is have been posted on the forum and is not removed or they does not prevent good enough that spammers can publish their spam posts. So we can be happy that there is little or no spam present on the forum.

For example, how it looks and what is the view of the mess, if there is a multitude of spam messages (every minute is added to some spam messages for scripts), you can look at Userscripts.org (daily added thousands of such messages). Probably one of the users of this forum itself using one of these scripts (I use quite a few useful scripts from this site, especially for IMDB and YouTube web pages). For more information on the use of browsers and how they are used on http://userscripts.org/ web site.

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And some script links, which somewhat loosen up the mess that's there now:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/243858
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/26062
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/168240
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/241991
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/34652
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/163038
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/170925
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/68219
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/97145
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/114060
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/142899
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/127520
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/128316
Posted by: Ivek23
« on: January 09, 2014, 05:43:04 pm »

There is no need to panic, spam posts and spammer accounts will be removed in the future. Here now is another Global Moderator which is present here and will be responsible for the removal of spam posts and spammer accounts here.
Posted by: abubin
« on: December 17, 2013, 05:41:00 pm »

that kiddy hacker is back...mod, try changing new account registration to approved by mod. So that he cannot register anymore account for spamming.
Posted by: abubin
« on: December 17, 2013, 05:43:23 am »

just problems from spammers. nothing that a moderator can't fix. this is common with free forum software.
Posted by: afrocuban
« on: December 17, 2013, 02:07:15 am »

You're referencing to a recent "Help" forum PVD manual addition?
Posted by: gear
« on: December 16, 2013, 04:15:39 pm »

The title says it all.

My simple question....
Posted by: rick.ca
« on: January 06, 2012, 10:57:35 pm »

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In most cases, a lot of forums require someone to register to actually be able to access the forum's content...

Forcing prospective users to register in order to learn about the software would unnecessarily inhibit it's use.

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With regards to how to stop the spam postings...

Upgrading to SMF 2 seems to have solved the problem. I don't know exactly what control are in effect, but spam posts are now rare. Spam accounts are still being created (although in much fewer numbers). This suggests the spammers are still trying, but the controls in place are effectively stopping them.
Posted by: katleeh
« on: January 06, 2012, 09:01:57 pm »

Hello, all, I wanted to bring a point up from a user's perspective here so that it's being considered. In most cases, a lot of forums require someone to register to actually be able to access the forum's content (IE some of the links, downloads, etc. are only available to registered users), which might account for the high number of lurkers. For my case, I don't post often because I try and limit my postings to relevant topics. For instance, bugs I find in the betas and such, although I'm still trying to figure out how to post more informative things as the data I provide seems... insignificant and unhelpful, hence why I haven't posted much in awhile.

With regards to how to stop the spam postings... Would it be possible to implement a filter of some sort? This would flag certain domains, words found in a post, etc? IE, anything with words in the topic that contain sex-related stuff, viagra/cialis/etc (I can provide you with a variant list if you want since I've been getting a lot of spam Emails with this stuff in them lately :/ ). What I'm suggesting is something that a Yahoo group that I run uses where anything that seems suspicious gets flagged and set aside until a moderator can look at the message to make sure its not spam.

I hope these are helpful.

- KatLeeH

Posted by: Ivek23
« on: January 03, 2012, 01:09:15 pm »

In view of spam posts Forum is now very safe and we have some writers
spam posts that in any way they want and try to publish a spam post (and is insisting on this).
One of them is in the last few days also MordechaJBlum, but he still has not figured out that will not be published and that he will not be able to see the spam posts.
Posted by: nostra
« on: November 16, 2011, 07:00:27 pm »

You are welcome
Posted by: Ivek23
« on: November 16, 2011, 06:24:45 pm »

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Personal Video Database - Statistics Center

Nostra,  Thank you very much.
Posted by: Ivek23
« on: November 16, 2011, 03:55:17 pm »

New forum layout is visually interesting (the old look more appealing and pleasing, at least for me it was so), seems to be no longer spam posts, at the same time, the question I have, whether it is now possible to see Personal Video Database - Statistics Center.
Posted by: rick.ca
« on: October 16, 2011, 10:05:07 pm »

Quote from: nostra on October 11, 2011, 01:24:42 am
The new addons report 14 blocked attacks within the last hour, so I hope that the amount of successful attacks will at least drop...

It seemed to work for a time, but now new spam accounts are being added at almost the same rate they were before. 25-30 have been added in the last 12 hours. :'(
Posted by: Ivek23
« on: October 11, 2011, 03:59:38 pm »

This is now more conducive to see and more realistic number of real users on the forum. Now the mere sight on the forum is really is more beautiful and the easier it is to see if there is anything new on it (at least for me is this a joy).
Posted by: rick.ca
« on: October 11, 2011, 02:08:37 am »

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The new addons report 14 blocked attacks within the last hour, so I hope that the amount of successful attacks will at least drop...

That is promising.

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But thousands remain, as indicated by there being no activity since registration.

It's much better with those gone. If you could isolate those with last activity within a few minutes of registration, many more could be deleted. Some of those would be real people, but if they registered, browsed for a few minutes, then never returned, the account may as well be deleted.

Also, if you can isolate accounts with signatures but no posts, those are very likely spam accounts (with links in the signatures).
Posted by: nostra
« on: October 11, 2011, 01:24:42 am »

The new addons report 14 blocked attacks within the last hour, so I hope that the amount of successful attacks will at least drop...
Posted by: rick.ca
« on: October 11, 2011, 01:13:21 am »

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Yeah, I am on it

So I see...We lost half our members! :o ;D

And new spam accounts are still being added. :(
Posted by: nostra
« on: October 11, 2011, 12:48:33 am »

Yeah, I am on it
Posted by: rick.ca
« on: October 11, 2011, 12:41:20 am »

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I could not find a way to allow moderators to delete multiple accounts at once

I see you've deleted the obvious spam accounts. But thousands remain, as indicated by there being no activity since registration. Can you, as administrator, identify and mass delete those? I think you'll find many of those (mainly the ones created in recent weeks) will return and post spam. Also, just being rid of all those should make it easier to identify and deal with whatever gets by the new controls.