Spam

[eaglesdare]

it appears the spammers are out in full force today. i am catching a bunch of them, but please if you catch them first hit that exclamation icon inside the post. this is a report this post icon.

once you do that i will (or all of us, not sure who all can see it), but a warning icon will appear. it is very visible for me and i am sure other admins also. i can get (or other admins) to them pretty fast once we see those warnings show up.

gosh i hope that made sense.

i personally do not get notices when these spammers are reported any other way. i am usually on most of the day. thanks everyone that has been using that button today, its been a big help in getting rid of those unwanteds.

 

[Shadow Catcher]

I hit the (!) twice early this morning, I really hate that stuff.

 

[Tommy2bits]

I think it might also be important to note to request that people not reply with any acknowledgement of the spam post within a legitimate thread as it could easily turn many lively teardrop related threads into gripe sessions about how we all equally hate spam

 

[eaglesdare]

i try to remove anything that is not topic related. all spam post i try to delete. but yes, that is worth mentioning. do not respond to the spam. just hit the button and an admin will take care of it as soon as one sees this.

 

[Tommy2bits]

Oh that is nice that you go the extra mile as well! Thank you!

 

[eaglesdare]

i'm just giving this a bump up, so all can see this. there are some of our legit members that did not realize the "exclamation button" is a "report this" icon.

if you see a thread that you think is spam, please hit that exclamation mark button. i know its tempting to respond to that spam, but please do not. its much easier to just get rid of the spam (spammer).

it seems today we have had lots of these posts. thanks again to everyone.

 

[nevadatear]

Thanks, i did not know this. On tapatalk is it the "more" then "report" ?

 

[mikeschn]

yes, it's More -->Report --> This forum

Thanks,

Mike...

 

[bobhenry-TNT]

This latest jerk is listed under 20 + names just look at pages 299 and 300 in the members section. No info at all just a name ( generally just a key board jumble of letters)

I have seen them ruin a couple good sites so give em the !!!!!! and they will go elsewhere

 

[bobhenry-TNT]

Congratz one and all A great job of spam swatting.

I found 5 today and 4 had already been reported minutes after they were posted.

Maybe this jerk will find a better home and just GO AWAY !

 

[mikeschn]

We've already got 2 anti spam questions.

The only thing left is to pre-approve everyone before they can post. We don't have enough manpower for that. Unless you want to volunteer?

Mike...

 

[eaglesdare]

how would that even work? it appears that the spammers lately are real people? if they have to answer those anti spam questions, then whats to stop them from still doing what they have to and then post spam after they are approved.. i don't see that as an answer.

 

[mikeschn]

Tough questions... no easy answers...

maybe if we require a ss number... nah, that won't work either!

Mike...

 

[danlott]

Maybe require to fill out all the information about location and that kind of stuff. Then if possible have a hour or two time delay before being allowed to post. Don't know if any of that stuff is possible, but anything to slow them down just might stop them.

Dan

 

[Greg M-TNT]

I've noticed that the current crop actually do fill out that info. The problem is that the bots these twerps are running are so sophisticated that they can get through most of the sign up hoops.
All that programming talent wasted on spam

-Greg

 

[GPW]

I’m a Moderator on another Forum (Electronics/amp building) and we get spammed to Death .... Every day is a long list of spammers banned, a continuous struggle to keep up with them ....and apparently , as Greg said, they are very sophisticated , and able to get past all our devices ...
Something we’ve speculated on is the individual spammers appear to work through a much larger system (Evil conspiracy ?) , technically much beyond their capabilities ...

Since we never see any spam here , you guys are doing a Great job !!!

 

[MtnDon]

Spambots can register on forums easily because the registration pages within any one type or brand of forum software uses the same layout. What type of information being asked for is known to the author of the spambot software. Any popular forum software can be inspected and the spammer software written to fit. Their software searches for forums that run on a particular type, like here it is phpBB. That info is in the footer of every page.

The captcha's are useless. Bots can read those quicker than people. IMO, the key in spam defense is to be able to customize the registration pages. If the location of the fields that needed to be filled with something that has to look like the email address was moved to another position the spam bots would be frustrated by that. That programming is beyond most of us though. Question and response security things work well as long as the logic behind is more cpmplex than asking for the answer to 2 + 3.

For 4 or 5 hundred dollars anyone can buy some very capable spamming software from folks who will also sell you lists of thousands of forums, blogs, etc including what software they run.

 

[Esteban-TNT]

I found lots of spam on TNTTT today. I tried to alert the moderators but that was unsuccessful. Frustrating.

 

[eaglesdare]

We (admins) are working on this. There seems to be a problem with some Admins being "timed out" when trying to take care of this. But they are aware and they are trying to clean it up. Thanks everyone. Just continue to hit the red flag and we will do what we can.

 

[Breytie]

There seems to be a server issue on top of that - I often get server ERROR 500 when hitting the flag, typing a coment and hit submit.