Spam - Please read

[Jesse1983]

By now everyone has seen that the forum is being hit with a ton of spam. The problem is each account posts once and then never again. So deleting the post and banning the user is only clean up, and does not prevent additional posts.

The good news is the spam seems to be coming from 3 specific IP addresses, which if they can be blocked altogether, should bring this matter to an end. Doing that is unfortunately above my pay grade.

I say all of this to ask that you be mindful of what posts you're reporting. Each mod gets an email for every post report. Lately it's been almost 100 emails a day. It's way too many. If the spam post isn't new please do us a favor and don't report it. Think of it like traffic; if you were sitting in traffic for an hour and finally saw the accident causing it, you wouldn't then call the police to report it. You'd probably think someone who encountered it earlier already has.

People reporting things is very helpful and I'm not trying to minimize that. But at this time the insane amount of emails is way worse than the spam itself.

Also, please don't quote the spam. Just ignore the spam. If you're in a thread and you see brand new spam, report that. If you see old spam, ignore that.

Thanks in advance and hopefully this get figured out soon.

Jesse

 

[WVhillbilly]

So they are not going to write my essay for me?
Or load me up with lots of bitcoin?


Thanks for working to keep the forum clean.

 

[sactown]

Jesse, I can appreciate your problem having been in your shoes elsewhere. Would you say 10 minutes old is a good cut off to no longer report?

 

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[GatorFL]

I am a mod on another automotive forum. We solved this problem by requiring all first posts to be mod approved. Very easy to do with vbulletin.

 

[gdvan01]

By now...
Thanks in advance and hopefully this get figured out soon.

Jesse

I was a mod on a wireless forum in the early 2000's...carried a big bat.

At first it's way cool, even as a tech guy, to see how web forms work behind the scenes but yeah....when you have a proactive user base....clearing out the emails is like having to go back and cleanup the blood from the spammers getting gutted like pigs by a loyal ( preferably ) user base.

 

[phillyd2]

We never had a problem when a certain somebody was still driving an Audi. Just saying......:moon:

 

[Jhalko]

We never had a problem when a certain somebody was still driving an Audi. Just saying......:moon:

Yep [MENTION=66316]1engineer[/MENTION] ran a tight ship around here, never had to worry about it. Things have clearly slipped. :spam2:




It really is a thankless job. Haha

 

[JSparky]

If we do come across a new spam post, do you recommend we quote it with a message saying we’ve reported it.. so others don’t?

 

[philsey]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ....

SPAM in the SPAM thread.

:smash:

 

[Jesse1983]

at least spam has a sense of humor. i'm leaving that one ^ right where it is

 

[philsey]

at least spam has a sense of humor. i'm leaving that one ^ right where it is

Exactly why I didn't report it.

:tape2:

 

[ADK Explorer]

Would requiring a Captcha for sign up prevent it? I'm assuming they're bots?!

 

[calcrc]

LoL that ****er is annoying as hell.

 

[e60ral]

lol, posted spam in the spam thread

 

[WVhillbilly]

Maybe they'll just keep all of the SPAM here and we won't need to report it. :bigok:

 

[Liquidmantis]

Maybe they'll just keep all of the SPAM here and we won't need to report it. :bigok:

WVhillbilly, the hero we need.

 

[RedSled]

Maybe they'll just keep all of the SPAM here and we won't need to report it. :bigok:

Nope, this whatever dax guy is in almost every thread, very annoying.

 

[e60ral]

Been crazy recently

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[J_Dub]

:attention:
Maybe it's time to get an IT expert working this problem... this is getting tiring!
:attention: