Forum Spamming
Moderator: kcleung
Forum Spamming
I have done all I can to try to stop spam bots (or people) automatically (i.e. requiring image recognition and e-mail conformation), but apparently someone is determined to spam the forums.
Hence, I have no choice now but to assign moderators. I would perfer if the moderator is actually a frequent IMSLP forum poster, so I'm setting the bar at 20 posts (as of this writing), which means that there are 7 members which can be moderators... if you are one of them and would like to moderate (i.e. delete spam posts), please reply! And this offer is valid for a limited time only The first two who reply will get moderator status. I might increase the number in the future, but I'd like to start with two and see how things go (and adding me would mean 3 moderators)
Hence, I have no choice now but to assign moderators. I would perfer if the moderator is actually a frequent IMSLP forum poster, so I'm setting the bar at 20 posts (as of this writing), which means that there are 7 members which can be moderators... if you are one of them and would like to moderate (i.e. delete spam posts), please reply! And this offer is valid for a limited time only The first two who reply will get moderator status. I might increase the number in the future, but I'd like to start with two and see how things go (and adding me would mean 3 moderators)
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I suggest searching for a Forum Mod which allows you to block known proxy servers. Alot of these bot spammers use a program which they plug in a file with a huge list of proxies and they are able to sign up bots on the forum somehow. Also if it is human spammers they tend to use proxies to hide their identity.
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Also because of spam this site is considered adult by web nanny type programs.SelfTaughtMusician wrote:I suggest searching for a Forum Mod which allows you to block known proxy servers. Alot of these bot spammers use a program which they plug in a file with a huge list of proxies and they are able to sign up bots on the forum somehow. Also if it is human spammers they tend to use proxies to hide their identity.
For real? That's incredible... and here I thought the forums gets next to no traffic...Also because of spam this site is considered adult by web nanny type programs.
About the proxy server issue, I'm not perfectly sure that it will actually stop the spammers (is there a comprehensive proxy list or something? the amount of proxy servers out there seems incredible and is changing every day... most of the proxy servers don't live long anyway), and it's quite messy... I might check this out if it gets any worse.
What I don't understand is what point there is in vandalizing a forum that isn't well known. From the spammer's profiles it is clearly a human doing this and not bots.
If this keeps up I might switch to the MediaWiki forum (a forum embedded in the wiki).
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About the proxy server issue, maybe a cooperation with the Wikimedia projects would be possible? I don't know much about the issue, but maybe these are useful entry points:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM:OP
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Wik ... /Blacklist
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category ... g_projects
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM:OP
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Wik ... /Blacklist
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category ... g_projects
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