SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Dubious_wolf » 29 Nov 2012, 13:09

Get MO DAKKA!
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Dominic Appleguard » 29 Nov 2012, 13:37

Well, if there are human beings opening accounts and then robo-posting, then it's a problem mods can ultimately solve. Real troubles don't emerge unless there's a hole in security that lets a computer make accounts faster than they can be banned.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby AlexanderDitto » 30 Nov 2012, 06:55

The current moderator report log... is my finest work to date. So beautiful. T_T
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Lord Chrusher » 30 Nov 2012, 06:59

Can I be a coauthor on the log for the number of post I marked as spam?
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby AlexanderDitto » 30 Nov 2012, 07:17

Lord Chrusher wrote:Can I be a coauthor on the log for the number of post I marked as spam?


It is my magnum opus, but you will be thanked in the acknowledgements.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby AlexanderDitto » 30 Nov 2012, 08:48

For posterity:

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Postby Metcarfre » 30 Nov 2012, 09:15

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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Graham » 30 Nov 2012, 09:40

Awesome.
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Postby Foxmar » 30 Nov 2012, 10:31

Impressive Mr. Ditto. Make them fear you!
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Geoff_B » 30 Nov 2012, 13:47

Someone enjoyed it a little bit too much... :D
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Dominic Appleguard » 30 Nov 2012, 15:40

He's gone mad with power. Or has he? We should send him on a boat and poison him during a duel. To be sure.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby AlexanderDitto » 30 Nov 2012, 16:29

A spammer I just deleted had this in its profile:

Occupation: Human


NICE TRY SPAMMER
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Utilitarian » 30 Nov 2012, 19:25

So close spam bot. So close, and yet, so far.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Dazzar » 01 Dec 2012, 05:23

I'm curious - When you register you have to put in what your favorite LRR video is. (Or is it the one that brought you here)

Which one(s) are the spam bots picking?
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby AlexanderDitto » 01 Dec 2012, 09:02

Dazzar wrote:I'm curious - When you register you have to put in what your favorite LRR video is. (Or is it the one that brought you here)

Which one(s) are the spam bots picking?


That's usually the easiest way to tell they're a spambot. They just put in a random string of characters, like "Obsfdsbzl".

Spammers have bots that make new accounts automatically. Bots can't really understand what "Favorite LRR video" means, so they just fill it with random garbage.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Metcarfre » 01 Dec 2012, 10:36

A lot of them used to use "WGWZ" or some such, made them really easy to spot for a while.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby AlexanderDitto » 01 Dec 2012, 10:47

Heaven help us if LRR ever makes a video whose title is a random string of characters. D:

OK, deleting all those spam account must have rustled someone's jimmies, because the spam onslaught seems to have increased since last night. We got a ton of new spam accounts registering between last night and this morning. I don't know how that's possible, because deleting the accounts shouldn't be noticeably different to an external user than banning the accounts, which we were doing already. Unless it's just a blip in the system. But we're getting a new spam account registering every twenty minutes or so. :/

If Paul's already improved our defenses, I don't know what more we can do, other than some kind of mandatory but stupid question like "What is Graham's first name?" that the spambots would fail but a human would definitely not fail.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Valkyrie-Lemons » 01 Dec 2012, 16:26

That or you have a set of questions that is used to try and stop these random accounts and have it alternate. (Not sure if it already does, since I haven't tried making more then one account)

You might not get rid of all the accounts, but you might be able to stop a proportion of them.

I'm not an expert in bots, computers and the like but I'm guessing a bot can't read and understand question text?
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby MattAn » 01 Dec 2012, 16:30

Question idea; "Pants."

...It'll *ruin* them. Then there's the obvious airspeed of an unladen swallow gag.
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Geoff_B » 02 Dec 2012, 05:08

Wait, wait, wait, I just thought of something:

@Ditto: I take it "Spamlet" is your favourite Shakespeare play? :D
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Valkyrie-Lemons » 02 Dec 2012, 05:23

Geoff_B wrote:Wait, wait, wait, I just thought of something:

@Ditto: I take it "Spamlet" is your favourite Shakespeare play? :D


*Ahem*
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Although I admit that is pretty good. : )
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Foxmar » 03 Dec 2012, 06:17

Well the spam is worse than ever now I'm afraid. This is the first time I've seen porn in the LRR forums since I've been here. I'm not sure what can be done to fix this spam problem but if there starting to post porn in the forums that's might hurt LRR's image a bit. :(
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby MattAn » 03 Dec 2012, 07:29

Foxmar wrote:Well the spam is worse than ever now I'm afraid. This is the first time I've seen porn in the LRR forums since I've been here. I'm not sure what can be done to fix this spam problem but if there starting to post porn in the forums that's might hurt LRR's image a bit. :(


*Ahem*...

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That was a legitimate thing for several years of early LRR. So.. ;)
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby Dubious_wolf » 03 Dec 2012, 11:15

I think we need to see about a major overhaul of the system. Is there other forum software out there that could be better equipped to handle this sort of thing?
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Re: SpaMEGAdon II: The Spammening

Postby General Michi » 03 Dec 2012, 11:56

I think I know what will stop the spam. We need to reset the top 6 post counts to zero.
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