SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Matt » 23 Nov 2012, 19:21

In retrospect, we should probably have deputized some non-north americans in our epic spam-posse, but oh well, we'll know for next time.

For now, Met, Alex, thank you SO much for taking this on.

You guys are life savers.

And everyone else, thanks for being so patient and understanding, and reporting the troublemakers.

Wall Plaid for all.

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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby MattAn » 23 Nov 2012, 19:35

That is the wallest of plaid, Matt.

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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Matt » 23 Nov 2012, 19:39

The plaid I used was my family's hunting tartan... but sure that's nice too, I guess.

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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby MattAn » 23 Nov 2012, 19:43

Matt wrote:The plaid I used was my family's hunting tartan... but sure that's nice too, I guess.

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..I just Google'd for the one I used. Seemed legit. D:
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby AlexanderDitto » 23 Nov 2012, 19:43

You're most welcome. I'm happy to help out whenever you need me.

If you want a laugh, go look at the moderator logs. ;D
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Jamfalcon » 23 Nov 2012, 19:44

Woo, familial tartans!
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Matt » 23 Nov 2012, 19:45

AlexanderDitto wrote:You're most welcome. I'm happy to help out whenever you need me.

If you want a laugh, go look at the moderator logs. ;D


Ahaha. Awesome. Kroze could learn a thing or to.


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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby AdmiralMemo » 23 Nov 2012, 20:16

Jamfalcon wrote:Woo, familial tartans!
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby MattAn » 23 Nov 2012, 20:28

AdmiralMemo wrote:
Jamfalcon wrote:Woo, familial tartans!

Yep. Wall Plaid from my mom's side, the Lindsays.


OF COURSE! Why did I not think to NOT check Andre (lolfrench) and try Barlow. Still nope. Closest I get with Andre is St Andrews.

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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Metcarfre » 23 Nov 2012, 21:03

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I quite like the Wiggins', actually.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby MattAn » 23 Nov 2012, 21:18

metcarfre wrote:I quite like the Wiggins', actually.


I do think the Wiggins one looks the most cool..
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Matt » 24 Nov 2012, 02:41

metcarfre wrote:Image

I quite like the Wiggins', actually.


Since when does the wiggins name have a tartan? ಠ_ಠ

The name isn't Scottish, like, at all.

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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby MattAn » 24 Nov 2012, 02:52

Matt wrote:Since when does the wiggins name have a tartan? ಠ_ಠ

The name isn't Scottish, like, at all.

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But the one you posted is a "family hunting tartan"? Huh. So, just one that's commonly used? ಠ_ಠ
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Matt » 24 Nov 2012, 03:18

It's the MacMillan tartan. Mother's side is Scottish.

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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby MattAn » 24 Nov 2012, 03:28

Of course! I had to do some further digging, but the closest Barlow (Mother's side) gets is Irish that "kind of migrated through Scotland, England, then Australia", while Andre (Father's side) is pretty much straight up French, with a little German.

I'm basically the personification of Europe.

Also, this is insane now! It's not just new threads, but old/outdated threads and currently popular ones getting barraged with spam.. This is... New.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Evil Jim » 25 Nov 2012, 02:25

I'm still reporting them here & there. It's difficult at times not to post a snarky comment to them, but I am still resisting.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Metcarfre » 25 Nov 2012, 08:03

I had to delete & ban about ten this morning.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby AlexanderDitto » 25 Nov 2012, 08:31

Evil Jim wrote:I'm still reporting them here & there. It's difficult at times not to post a snarky comment to them, but I am still resisting.


Keep resisting. When I ban them, I just delete all their posts, which means your snarky comments will just be left littering the forums with no context. It's really much less work for us if you don't post anything to them.

Also I suspect (though I have no confirmation for this) that they may return to check how many views their threads get, and the more views they get may encourage spammers to come back.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby JackSlack » 25 Nov 2012, 12:05

FWIW: I am in favour of letting Met and Ditto keep their mod powers.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Foxmar » 25 Nov 2012, 12:09

Might as well let them keep it, they did a good job in the crew's absence.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Metcarfre » 25 Nov 2012, 12:32

I'd like a little more of an understanding of how the system works if that's so. Because I ban/delete posts through the ACP, they usually aren't logged, but going the other way takes twice to four times as long...
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby King Kool » 25 Nov 2012, 14:44

I wanna bring something up, as far as spam goes.

On the Wiki, we've had a few straggler spammers appear. The CAPTCHA is working wonders, but on the other hand, one in 2^12 spammers might get through by picking all twelve images right. Maybe that's where it's coming from, but it might also be a human.

A comprehensive CAPTCHA for the forums is, at this point, a necessity.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby JackSlack » 25 Nov 2012, 17:25

My bet is that the bots are actually being logged in by human beings. The DBfH spam attack seemed very deliberate; someone was smart enough to know that it would be a time the LRR page would have a higher than average number of visitors and lower than average moderation.

I don't think they're bots at signup. Pure speculation, but still. They're being signed in through human beings, making CAPTCHA systems an annoyance at most for them (mind you, making it more annoying is possibly not a terrible idea; you need to hit that sweet spot: Not so annoying that it'll deter an actual visitor who only has to sign up once, but a pain in the ass for a spammer who needs to sign up over and over again.) The way to win is more moderators who can spot the spam and delete it as fast as possible, making us an unattractive target. (To my mind, anyway.)
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Dubious_wolf » 28 Nov 2012, 18:08

It's posting in threads now! Ahhhhhh it's infiltrated the main bastions!
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby MattAn » 29 Nov 2012, 04:11

Dubious_wolf wrote:It's posting in threads now! Ahhhhhh it's infiltrated the main bastions!


Quick, everyone to the Bunker! Repent! It is the End Times! (They even infiltrated the Graham & Kathleen Engagement/Mayo/Cheese/Egg thread. THIS WILL NOT STAND.)

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