Major spam crisis

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Major spam crisisPavke04/28/2010 - 07:51

We have spam crisis!

Has anyone noticed there are hundredths of inactive spam profiles here!

They all have been created on 26 and 27 of April. Majority profiles names starts with few characters then few numbers and again few characters. Most of them have the exact same email as profile name.
Half of them already finished placing spam links to their signature

For now, we are safe, but what's going to happen when they start spamming!??

Do moderators have the option to delete these accounts?

I hope Soultaker is seeing this

EDIT: This is worst that I thought!

Last 100 hundredth pages of new members are all spam accounts and 100-125 pages are mostly spam with some normal accounts. I didn't check after 125 page

thats more then 3500+ spam accounts!!!


Last modified Wed, 04/28/2010 - 08:19 by Pavke
Re: Major spam crisisleekinhwa04/28/2010 - 12:17

hi Pavke,

there is the reason I post it in other category and it seems you underestimated the crisis behind this, no point for a forum to have 100,000 members but 99,999 are SPAM member. And when a person start doing this and you ignore it, more and more SPAM member will come.

although they don't post any thread , but SPAM is SPAM. We have to fight them.

Re: Major spam crisisthB04/28/2010 - 12:23

Obviously, yes.
That's why I immediately report every new spam post. Happens almost every day...
Let's hope that moderators can delete users, but I doubt that 2D Boy gave anyone that power.

Re: Major spam crisisPavke04/28/2010 - 12:40

I wrote to moderator and 2DBoy, hope they have a solution to this problem  :(

Re: Major spam crisisSoultaker04/29/2010 - 21:20

Well, I understand your concern, but there is very little I can do about it because I don't have the power to delete user profiles.

Fortunately, almost none of these spammers are actually spamming, and when they do, they get banned quite quickly (big thanks to the users that report spam posts to the moderators!), so in practice they don't cause too much trouble (although I do wonder if having a profile with external links in it is enough to profit from the PageRank boost that spammers seem to be after).

Even if the moderators could delete user profiles, I wouldn't know where to begin. There are over 12,000 registered users and I'm not looking forward to manually deleting about 10,000 of those, even if I could blindly delete all users with 0 posts (which may include quite a few legitimate users as well).

Re: Major spam crisisZappypantz04/29/2010 - 23:44

Why sign up to a forum if you're not going to post in it? Just wondering.

Re: Major spam crisisDEFE04/29/2010 - 23:57

[quote author=Zappypantz link=topic=2806.msg17222#msg17222 date=1272602690]
Why sign up to a forum if you're not going to post in it? Just wondering.


Some people don't really have anything to say, but they like to keep up with things. The account allows them to keep up with the forum more easily with stuff like seeing topics with new posts.

Re: Major spam crisisPavke05/19/2010 - 19:09

I just noticed Aquaria forum has the same problem.

Accounts like 'xxxx22yyy' are made everyday, I guessing it happening to many (game)forums on  the net...

Re: Major spam crisisSoultaker05/24/2010 - 09:57

[quote author=Kiro link=topic=2806.msg17528#msg17528 date=1274709438]
many forums suffer from this problem those spammer are seeking for few posts to get abetter rank to their sites 

Sweetly ironic. Still, deleted.

Re: Major spam crisis!05/24/2010 - 21:10

It looks like we haven't been hit too hard yet, but we'd better be prepared for an onslaught. Is there any way I could help?

Re: Major spam crisisGMMan05/26/2010 - 09:48

I think we just got hit with spam... again.

Re: Major spam crisis!05/28/2010 - 17:20

[quote author=GMMan link=topic=2806.msg17540#msg17540 date=1274885316]
I think we just got hit with spam... again.


I'm seeing a flood when I open up 'Unread Topics'. Perhaps we could temporarily migrate and ask Kyle or Ron to erase all accounts?

Nah, too drastic.

Re: Major spam crisisOoso05/31/2010 - 06:00

It's not possible for mods to delete accounts.

But there are quite good tools to avoid spam, which are not implemented in this forum (e.g. mollom.org).

It is important though to get your spam reports, because this makes removing the spam much easier. Thanks for all the reports you all issued!

Jochen