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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Marcus_CA on October 30, 2013, 01:33:50 PM

Title: Lots of spam lately
Post by: Marcus_CA on October 30, 2013, 01:33:50 PM
I just reported 5+ spammers in 10 minutes. Have the registration been open to the public lately?
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: e_brugal on October 30, 2013, 01:37:20 PM
i think we are reporting the same spamers  :P
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: sheep2001 on October 30, 2013, 01:38:23 PM
Read the notice in red at the top of the page.

Personally I prefer if people don't report all the spams.  I am almost permanently logged in,  as is arisen and a couple of others.  The spam notifications actually spam my (and others) email inbox.
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: Forte on October 30, 2013, 01:39:16 PM
well damn
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: e_brugal on October 30, 2013, 01:39:32 PM
Don't know if this one is a spamer it has this topic

"Im glad I now registered"

i haven't report him because i don't really know if is one
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: Marcus_CA on October 30, 2013, 01:42:14 PM
Read the notice in red at the top of the page.

Personally I prefer if people don't report all the spams.  I am almost permanently logged in,  as is arisen and a couple of others.  The spam notifications actually spam my (and others) email inbox.
I was told TO report them. :P I shall now run in circles.
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: sheep2001 on October 30, 2013, 01:42:20 PM
Don't know if this one is a spamer it has this topic

"Im glad I now registered"

i haven't report him because i don't really know if is one

Yup - spammer.
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: e_brugal on October 30, 2013, 01:42:29 PM
Read the notice in red at the top of the page.

Personally I prefer if people don't report all the spams.  I am almost permanently logged in,  as is arisen and a couple of others.  The spam notifications actually spam my (and others) email inbox.

Didn't knew that, sometimes i see that a spam take some time to be deleted and i report it
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: larryinc64 on October 30, 2013, 01:42:47 PM
I just banned and deleted, I think he was, the website he linked looked like a spam site.
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: e_brugal on October 30, 2013, 01:45:06 PM
Read the notice in red at the top of the page.

Personally I prefer if people don't report all the spams.  I am almost permanently logged in,  as is arisen and a couple of others.  The spam notifications actually spam my (and others) email inbox.
I was told TO report them. :P I shall now run in circles.

So, what should we do, report or not report, That is the question  :P
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: sheep2001 on October 30, 2013, 01:45:13 PM
Read the notice in red at the top of the page.

Personally I prefer if people don't report all the spams.  I am almost permanently logged in,  as is arisen and a couple of others.  The spam notifications actually spam my (and others) email inbox.

Didn't knew that, sometimes i see that a spam take some time to be deleted and i report it

Well, arseen and I are in the same time zone,  so perhaps we are asleep.  😉

I'm not saying don't report it,  that's not my decision to make,  I would just prefer it if they didn't. Lol
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: Arseen on October 30, 2013, 02:29:21 PM
I've been at work last 8.5 hours.
Prior that that I deleted 4 spammer's posts and banned them.

And I too vote strongly no reporting as I too are logged in almost all the time (current clear leader in time logged in ;D (among 2 other categories)).
So I say don't report anything that is less than day old.

When I'm not at work during day time, average time spammmer survives here is less than 5 minutes, many times mere seconds.
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: e_brugal on October 30, 2013, 02:40:00 PM
ok
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: UncleBob on October 30, 2013, 06:42:59 PM
I'm just throwing this out there, but...

I moderate two forums.  Reports from both forums go straight to a junk mail folder that gets cleared out... well, whenever.  I never, ever go into that folder.

HOWEVER... Whenever I am online, I get little pop-ups saying that someone has reported a post - because I get that e-mail alert.  When that happens, I usually swing back by the forums ASAP and delete any active SPAM.  So, personally, I favor a quick report of the SPAM, but that's just me.
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: segamer on November 01, 2013, 03:20:29 PM
All the recent spam activity is driving me nuts. Maybe there should be a lock on new membership for the next month.
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: Lord_Britannia on November 01, 2013, 07:04:18 PM
All the recent spam activity is driving me nuts. Maybe there should be a lock on new membership for the next month.

I know im still newbie status so I dont have much weight vs all the older members on this thread particularly but I agree. Membership grew from around 1000 to 2500 in the past 30 days alone its great more people join but its been the past 30 days that I have noticed the spam. This is the only gaming forum I care to be a part of because I believe/share in the passion of what the project represents so maybe im just getting a bit overly protective. <3 TCP.net
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: Arseen on November 01, 2013, 11:48:36 PM
There are mods from around the world (many different timezones) s life time of spammers is short, so members rarely visiting site won't notice the spam.

Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: UncleBob on November 01, 2013, 11:55:33 PM
The spam here isn't much worse than any other forum I visit.  Check out the Steve Jackson Games forum sometime. :D

With that said, I *hate* the fact that so many users had trouble joining the site for so long and I'm thrilled that so many new voices have gotten to join.  I am quite okay with having to delete a little spam here and there in exchange for bringing new blood to the site.

I would, however, like to eventually see user permissions set to such a way as to restrict how much new posters can post.  It's a pretty common practice and I think it would help curb most of the spam.
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: Arseen on November 02, 2013, 12:05:35 AM
... it's just that only few real members have joined, and judging by the names they would have gotten in anyway.

out of the 1600 members joined virtually all are spammers or bots.
Spam is not bad, but the site already works slower.
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: UncleBob on November 02, 2013, 12:15:24 AM
I haven't noticed a bit of slowdown in the site.

There are forums that run on smaller servers with more active members than this site has total members... and they run just as smooth as this one.
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: Arseen on November 02, 2013, 12:20:48 AM
oh it runs slower.

Before access was instant, now the circle spins 3-10 seconds before loadind.

I know the wait is not long but I fear it becomes longer.
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: UncleBob on November 02, 2013, 04:16:57 AM
Still pretty instant on my end. :D
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: AlveinHero on November 23, 2013, 06:18:54 PM
Attention, members of The Cover Project. there are so many Russian spammers came into SNES Game Maker forum and post spam topics. I hope they need to go away. 300 members joined virtually are all spammers or bots.

Here's the website.

http://www.snesgamemaker.gamehacking.org/
Title: Re: Lots of spam lately
Post by: e_brugal on November 23, 2013, 09:02:38 PM
Probably those are here too