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Email spam I can understand but forums? 4947 |
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| fimbul Member Level: 16 ![]() Posts: 53/62 EXP: 17524 For next: 2732 Since: 10-12-18 Since last post: 287 days Last activity: 88 days |
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Email spam I can understand but forums? 4947 |
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| There used to be quite a few acmlmboards around back in the day so I'm not hugely surprised. Could also have just been a manual spammer though. |
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yeah sometimes these seem to be done by humans. sometimes they'll even log in and edit their profile to have spam in the bio, for example
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| fimbul Member Level: 16 ![]() Posts: 54/62 EXP: 17524 For next: 2732 Since: 10-12-18 Since last post: 287 days Last activity: 88 days |
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Maybe it's sone kind of computer museum deal where people get to see how forum spam used to be an artisan hand craft instead of the automation and eventual obsoletion of forum spamming. 4946 |
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It's really not obsolete, at my work I maintain a phpBB forum with some 100k members and we get tons of spam"bots" every day. I've tried some anti-bot measures to defeat them but it's fruitless because if I look at the logs it's just humans in countries like India and Pakistan slaving away clicking around
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| Sanqui 2060 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 💛🤍💜🖤🦉 Level: 87 Posts: 1936/2066 EXP: 6304500 For next: 88274 Since: 12-20-09 Pronouns: any ✨ From: Czechia | Estonia Since last post: 5 days Last activity: 10 hours |
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* flops, wings involved. level 84 exp 5523126 exppct 39.6% numposts 1936
Like I even removed the ability to input any bio field in your profile until you make an approved post, and after doing that I observed them clicking through every single page in the user control panel, board preferences, private messages, desperately looking for some input box to paste their spam into, it's really sad.
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Man that friggin sucks 4945 |
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| A forum I use to help moderate for a period of time - a VERY long time ago - use to abuse the fact it was NSFW (long story) by having porn on its registration form, and relying on knowledge related to the site for the user to select the correct two images. That seemed to stump actual bots. I never thought to consider metrics for human-based spammers. I can't say that would be a useful solution for Jul. |
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A micronational forum I used to use required you to answer questions based on the names of subfora, which was pretty okay at stumping spammers.____________________ Thanks to maple and devurandom for parts of this layout, and to Markeee for the avatar. Violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the jam. |
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