Hello all, The situation on the LXDE forum has definitely improved now! Thanks to whoever did something about it.
On Wed, 2022-02-09 at 09:15 +0000, D.T. wrote: > Thanks again, however, I don't think the situation has improved at > all. > > Since Feb 3rd there have been ~40 new spam posts, most of them from > individual accounts that look clearly generated. > Things like igorxb, igorcb, igorts etc., or > CommonFirstnameCommonLastnameNumber. Particularly telling if > KarenMiller763 writes in Russian. > > So yeah, this is very much still going on. It doesn't affect the > other forum users I think, but it's a lot of work for the mods (only > 2) and sometimes I fear I might miss a legitimate post in the flood. > > I guess phpBB is a desirable target for spammers and lots of scripts > exist. AFAIK about these things, a captcha isn't enough, one will > also need to install & constantly upgrade spam detection. > > I'm just not sure how much longer I want to do this. Often spam > deletion takes more time than helping users with actual questions. > It's no fun, and I'm not getting paid for it. > > > On Sun, 2022-01-30 at 21:21 +0800, Yao Wei wrote: > > Regarding the forums, I've upgraded phpBB system and upgraded > > reCAPTCHA it is using to v3 just now. Please see if it has been > > improved. > > > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 6:55 PM Yao Wei <m...@lxde.org> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 6:38 PM D.T. <ohnonot-git...@posteo.de> > > > wrote: > > > > Me (drooly) and RexBouwense have been the only ones to > > > > moderate https://forum.lxde.org/ for a couple of years now. > > > > Every time I log in I have to remove a slew of spam posts, > > > > usually from individual accounts that then have to be banned as > > > > well. I assume RexBouwense is doing the same. > > > > This has been going on ever since I became moderator, and > > > > before that afaik. > > > > Today, only 2 days after Rex last logged in, I had to remove 30 > > > > spam posts and almost as many users, and there wasn't one > > > > legitimate new post since my last login over a week ago! > > > > > > > > Something has to happen here. It casts a really bad light on > > > > the project, esp. considering the forum is linked several times > > > > on the LXDE.org web site. > > > > > > > > Previous efforts to contact the forum site administrators have > > > > been fruitless, and I have no idea how else to contact someone > > > > responsible. > > > > > > > > Either the forum software will have to be made more spam > > > > resistant or changed altogether, or the forum needs to be > > > > closed down, because I don't know how long I can keep on doing > > > > this (and I'm sure Rex feels the same). > > > > > > > > > >  > > > Sorry, it's me to blame. > > > > > > Actually in recent years I don't have much will to continue > > > maintaining the systems. I was considering handing the forums > > > and wiki off to other maintainers. I was trying to hand it over > > > to Alf Gaida but he seems to have been unresponsive since around > > > 2 years ago. > > > > > > Currently it's running on legacy systems of phpBB, MediaWiki and > > > Wordpress, which was on my Linode account since 6 years ago, and > > > are somehow difficult to maintain continuously, and in the lack > > > of human resources I hope these can be migrated to a hosted > > > system, instead of closing it down. > > > > > > One of the ways I am thinking is to freeze the contents of the > > > website, and move things onto GitHub and use their Wiki and > > > Discussions features up there. While this cannot stop spamming, > > > we can reduce the resources needed to maintain the hosted > > > systems. > > > > > > Please let me know what you think. > > > Yao Wei > > ___ > > Vaccines for everyone! > Donate to the COVAX alliance: > https://gogiveone.org/ (WHO) > https://www.gavi.org/donate (Gavi) > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list ___ Vaccines for everyone! Donate to the COVAX alliance: https://gogiveone.org/ (WHO) https://www.gavi.org/donate (Gavi)
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