Re: Stronger Spam Bot Stop systems
Re: Stronger Spam Bot Stop systems @green gables fanWhat facebook uses is probably a database of known IP sources of spam and where spam bots are known to operate from. Which means somebody has to maintain and update it. It's more than likely a service that facebook pays a subscripti
Re: Stronger Spam Bot Stop systems
Re: Stronger Spam Bot Stop systems We already have several reputation-based countermeasures, but inevitably these will be bypassed. And we also have some tools for dealing with potential new floods of spam from given IP addresses or forum posters when they are identified, at the time they
Re: Stronger Spam Bot Stop systems
Re: Stronger Spam Bot Stop systems Back when I administered the Armadillo user's forum, moderating a user's first five posts was the approach we eventually took. While the moderators and I still had to deal with them, it did keep their trash off the forums.I discovered that I h
Re: Stronger Spam Bot Stop systems
2017-08-26
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AudioGames . net Forum — Site and forum feedback : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Stronger Spam Bot Stop systems No bit.ly links in your first post. Oh, hey, and maybe newbies have to go through moderation anyway? It wouldn't be practical on a very large forum, and I'm not sure how much work the mods are having to deal with already, but it seems like ne
Re: Stronger Spam Bot Stop systems
2017-08-26
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AudioGames . net Forum — Site and forum feedback : Green Gables Fan via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Stronger Spam Bot Stop systems How would the spammers defeat this? All we need is something similar to what Facebook uses to detect web sites that may not be secure. For instance, if I sent a link on Facebook to my friend, and Facebook blocked it because it could be unsecure, perhaps
Re: Stronger Spam Bot Stop systems
Re: Stronger Spam Bot Stop systems Even if somebody was building something like this, it would be a futile effort because it would be too easy for the spammers to defeat. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=326338#p326338
Stronger Spam Bot Stop systems
2017-08-25
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AudioGames . net Forum — Site and forum feedback : Green Gables Fan via Audiogames-reflector
Stronger Spam Bot Stop systems Hi there!So I've noticed an increase in Spam posts, even with the occasional Spam Bot stop that we get. So I'm wondering if there is a way to flag posts for moderation queue when the system detects words or phrases associated with commercial adverts
