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holy spam batman?!
now the bots have invaded the forums?
holy spam batman?!
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Aug 10, 2017, 04:1808/10/17
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oracle gets demoted and the forum gets spam bombed in chinese......
methinks the two are related.
perhaps he does have something to do with the bots after all.
Aug 10, 2017, 06:3208/10/17
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IronApex Turok said:
oracle gets demoted and the forum gets spam bombed in chinese......
methinks the two are related.
perhaps he does have something to do with the bots after all.
Did I miss any drama in all this spam? :p
Alina PhoenixAdmin
Aug 10, 2017, 09:1808/10/17
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IronApex Turok said:
oracle gets demoted and the forum gets spam bombed in chinese......
methinks the two are related.
perhaps he does have something to do with the bots after all.
Hello.
Oracle has nothing to do with the posting of these spam topics.
Moreover, all moderators move this spam to Spam thread and clean up other threads from it.
Our devs are working on the program that will allow removing this spam automatically.
So, let's don't create any drama when there is no actually any :)
Aug 10, 2017, 09:4108/10/17
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Alina Phoenix said:
IronApex Turok said:
oracle gets demoted and the forum gets spam bombed in chinese......
methinks the two are related.
perhaps he does have something to do with the bots after all.Hello.
Oracle has nothing to do with the posting of these spam topics.
Moreover, all moderators move this spam to Spam thread and clean up other threads from it.
Our devs are working on the program that will allow removing this spam automatically.
So, let's don't create any drama when there is no actually any :)
I think the spammers buy into the fairytale of millions of active users and think they reach out to a lot of people when tney spam these forums... maybe :p
BiohazarDModerator
Aug 10, 2017, 10:1708/10/17
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IronApex Turok said:
Nah the spam bots have been around for a while. We try to delete their posts before they build up, but sometimes nobody is around for a few hours and the bots go nuts.oracle gets demoted and the forum gets spam bombed in chinese......
methinks the two are related.
perhaps he does have something to do with the bots after all.
BiohazarDModerator
Aug 10, 2017, 10:1808/10/17
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Alina Phoenix said:
Excellent, hopefully they'll get their spam filter working soon.IronApex Turok said:
oracle gets demoted and the forum gets spam bombed in chinese......
methinks the two are related.
perhaps he does have something to do with the bots after all.Hello.
Oracle has nothing to do with the posting of these spam topics.
Moreover, all moderators move this spam to Spam thread and clean up other threads from it.
Our devs are working on the program that will allow removing this spam automatically.
So, let's don't create any drama when there is no actually any :)
Alina PhoenixAdmin
Aug 11, 2017, 08:2208/11/17
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djmoody said:
BiohazarD said:
IronApex Turok said:
Nah the spam bots have been around for a while. We try to delete their posts before they build up, but sometimes nobody is around for a few hours and the bots go nuts.oracle gets demoted and the forum gets spam bombed in chinese......
methinks the two are related.
perhaps he does have something to do with the bots after all.I got them on my forum.
Best defense was a drop down box when creating an account. User makes a selection from a sensible set of options, default setting is 'No Selection'. It won't let you create an account if the selection is still 'No Selection'. Amazingly this seems to kill almost all spam bots dead, before they even get to the annoying capture protection.
Here is could be 'Select your Server'
Hello :)
Thanks for sharing your experience. Spamming bots are very frustrating, and I hope we'll get rid of them soon.Aug 11, 2017, 15:2508/11/17
Aug 11, 2017, 15:27(edited)
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IronApex Turok said:
oracle gets demoted and the forum gets spam bombed in chinese......
methinks the two are related.
perhaps he does have something to do with the bots after all.
On a serious note, spammers that we have here are humans, and not bots programmes. They send their attacks at certain time in a day, so dealing with them depend on timing their attacks, so you delete the messages before they post many. The same person(account) spam multiple site( Stormfall, pirate ect), so if you catch one after he post he normally give up and leave without posting another spam.
But because our moderators live in almost the same UCT spams sometimes survive longer than they should.Aug 11, 2017, 22:0008/11/17
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Oracle said:
Its not a person, its a bot, and these bots target a lot of forums out there, I run a community forum as well and we used to get a lot of these. More rigid logon mechancis help safeguard vs such. Make email verification to even be able to post on this forum, and have a session based captcha to logon etc it get harder for bots to do these things. The spam they are spewing out is not really reaching a good target audience either on Plarium forums, but plarium forums is just one of their targets on a long list of targets.IronApex Turok said:
oracle gets demoted and the forum gets spam bombed in chinese......
methinks the two are related.
perhaps he does have something to do with the bots after all.On a serious note, spammers that we have here are humans, and not bots programmes. They send their attacks at certain time in a day, so dealing with them depend on timing their attacks, so you delete the messages before they post many. The same person(account) spam multiple site( Stormfall, pirate ect), so if you catch one after he post he normally give up and leave without posting another spam.
But because our moderators live in almost the same UCT spams sometimes survive longer than they should.
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