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jjmckenzie51 The Anomaly
Joined: Apr 01, 2005 Posts: 1055 Location: Southeastern Arizona
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:58 am Post subject: |
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pluby wrote: | FYI. I usually delete any spam postings that I run into so if you are wondering where they go, I am deleting them.
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Thank you Patrick. And I'm not trying to up my post count so that I hit 200.
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val1984 Oracle
Joined: May 30, 2005 Posts: 229 Location: France
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Luke Captain
Joined: Sep 08, 2003 Posts: 63 Location: Teesside, UK
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pluby The Architect
Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 7:23 am Post subject: |
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People, you don't need to link to the forum spam. I see them when I log in every morning and read all of the forums and I delete them immediately.
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ovvldc Captain Naiobi
Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Posts: 2352 Location: Zürich, CH
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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pluby wrote: | People, you don't need to link to the forum spam. I see them when I log in every morning and read all of the forums and I delete them immediately. |
But you're asleep when we see them (8 AM european daylight time) . We're just trying to be helpful. As is, I'll stop reporting any and give the moderators time to wipe them. _________________ "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
"I think it would be a good idea!"
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sardisson Town Crier
Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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pluby wrote: | People, you don't need to link to the forum spam. I see them when I log in every morning and read all of the forums and I delete them immediately. |
There was a period when you were on vacation and Ed was, well, I don't know what Ed was doing, earning a living perhaps , and the postings seemed to get out of control and stay up for a while, which I think is what prompted the "obsessive spam reporting" in all of us
Smokey _________________ "[...] whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." -- ovvldc and sardisson in the NeoWiki |
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pluby The Architect
Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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No problem. I just wanted people to know that I am actively deleting the spam postings as soon as I see them.
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OPENSTEP The One
Joined: May 25, 2003 Posts: 4752 Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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OK, the forum spam is annoying, but thanks all for helping to cull it. I recently added a couple of more folks as moderators to help organize things as this forum becomes both more popular and a more popular spam target for googlebombing and the like.
Eventually I'll work on implementing a security code entry mechanism for anonymous posting (e.g. the "type the numbers in the image below" kind of security code entry) but for the time being hopefully the human filtering approach will suffice as I have some weddings and a CVS server that needs some love...
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ovvldc Captain Naiobi
Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Posts: 2352 Location: Zürich, CH
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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OPENSTEP wrote: | Eventually I'll work on implementing a security code entry mechanism for anonymous posting (e.g. the "type the numbers in the image below" kind of security code entry) but for the time being hopefully the human filtering approach will suffice as I have some weddings and a CVS server that needs some love... |
Let us see how this works ou first . _________________ "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
"I think it would be a good idea!"
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sardisson Town Crier
Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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ovvldc wrote: | OPENSTEP wrote: | Eventually I'll work on implementing a security code entry mechanism for anonymous posting (e.g. the "type the numbers in the image below" kind of security code entry) but for the time being hopefully the human filtering approach will suffice as I have some weddings and a CVS server that needs some love... |
Let us see how this works out first . |
Between the various new members of "The Council" we should have enough eyes in enough timezones (or waking hours ) to zap the spam before almost everyone else notices So Ed can safely tend to his CVS server and show up at weddings....
(And the ability to move posts to the correct forum will be helpful from time to time, although of late postings have amazingly been in the correct fora....)
Smokey _________________ "[...] whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." -- ovvldc and sardisson in the NeoWiki |
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sardisson Town Crier
Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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Ed, does it make sense to keep track of the IP/hostnames of the forum spammers when deleting them?
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OPENSTEP The One
Joined: May 25, 2003 Posts: 4752 Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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Not really, as IP bans are not as effective in the days of DHCP zombie spammers. What is useful, though, is any *registered* account that is spamming. I can delete those accounts easily.
I really do hate forum spam and am upset since there's no good solution, but we'll find something eventually.
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sardisson Town Crier
Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject: Be careful what you delete! |
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Just a heads-up to the moderating team to be careful which delete button you press
When deleting the spam "Hallo" post from "Me" in NeoLight this afternoon, the entire two-page thread ended up getting deleted
(The buttons at the bottom of the page apply to the whole thread; the buttons next to "quote" and "edit" apply to a single post.)
I don't remember all the posts on page 2, but Google has a cache of page 1. It's not a critical loss, I don't think, but some of Ed's notes on how he figured out the encoding issue were there.
Edit: Here's page 2 as of Sept 26, so I guess there was only one post on it.
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pluby The Architect
Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:25 pm Post subject: Re: Be careful what you delete! |
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sardisson wrote: | Just a heads-up to the moderating team to be careful which delete button you press
When deleting the spam "Hallo" post from "Me" in NeoLight this afternoon, the entire two-page thread ended up getting deleted |
Oops. I think that I did this.
Sorry about that.
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sardisson Town Crier
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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One of us was bound to do it sooner or later At least I had been looking at it (I should have just deleted it myself before running off to get dinner!) and we didn't actually "lose" the content thanks to Google....
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