Orbitz, CyberCoin, and other Spammers!

[Grams]

Hey Moderators! I hope you guys are paying attention to all the Click-Bait popping onto the Forums today.

Thanks.

 

[G-Ride990]

Trust me, we are paying attention. That is why I am sitting here for hours a day putting new filters into the back end to try and stop these guys.

It is annoying and time consuming trying to battle these idiots.

 

[Magfan2]

Many thanks to the Mods & Admins!

 

[Mpgrimm2]

Ugh... Their at it again!

 

[G-Ride990]

Bunch of assholes!

We were good for months since the last time this happened.

 

[inuyasha-rules]

Bunch of assholes!

We were good for months since the last time this happened.

So the current scheme looks like they are spinning up a new account, copy pasting the same thing. A cool down period (say 30 minutes) before you are allowed to create a new post, and restricting how many posts new members are allowed to create would slow them down decently. Not sure if the software this place runs on can do that automatically.

 

[Grams]

I moderate an aviation forum and, very fortunately, have a co-moderator who is willing to waste a large portion of his day doing this task. The deluge of late has been astronomical.
Fortunately, with the software we are using, the new-participant routine catches most.

 

[NETim]

I have an app that fields the spam, converts it into 482 gigavolts at 22K amps and redirects it into the spammers’ computing device.

 

[MrBonez]

I moderate an aviation forum and, very fortunately, have a co-moderator who is willing to waste a large portion of his day doing this task. The deluge of late has been astronomical.
Fortunately, with the software we are using, the new-participant routine catches most.

As many of you know that's because they use bots to do this spam posting with, that's how they are able to create so many posts in such a short amount of time.

I used to moderate a tech forum myself and the old way was bad enough but this.... Yeah, everytime I spot one I report it so it doesn't go unnoticed by the staff and it doesn't help sometimes they'll create "Sleeper" accounts and seed them with random posts across the forum, then come back later and use them for this purpose. Typically they like posting in an older/dead thread most would ignore so they won't be caught as easily before they do the deed.

 

[Randy1]

I think this darn AI makes it faster and easier to get in.

 

[Magfan2]

Was a long time Admin / Mod on another interest site. Similar and even worse pressure. Trick is for members to Report spam, just one from each spammer, and Admin / Mod maintain a random schedule, I even got to the point I never logged out. Don't know if it helped, but it was doable. Annoying, for sure. I know a Senior Admin on one site even blocked a geography because they were a major factor.

 

[EdGs]

I would love to see that in action!