Silk Road forums
Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Pax on November 27, 2012, 07:30 am
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In every topic I go to there are at least 3 or 4 whole pages of spam threads.I I am not to the point of anger yet rather diappointment. So I decided to make a thread of ideas to stop or limit the spam accounts with as little obstruction as possible to the newbies sellers and buyers alike.
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This is an open exchange any and all ideas will be accepted. Many good vibes in advance for your time energy and participation :) :) :) :)
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i am not happy either but i am sure the non paid admins r doing their best...:)
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i am not happy either but i am sure the non paid admins r doing their best...:)
I was not trying to devalue any of the mods work I was just trying to get people together to brainstrom some new ideas mods included and find a solution in a timly manner so any ideas?
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I know pax - they r whale shit - the lowest form of shit. lol
i really dont know how to combat this short of authorizing
more admins.
and btw ima not in the position whatsoever to do that!!
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Why can't the staff look into anti-spam mods? Or do they not work that well through TOR?
I'd be up for developing a mod this weekend in my spare time? The code would be openly released.. And in return I'd like a salt shaker full of coke eh? Open gangnum style. Haha nah I'd do it for free :).
Looking at the spam from bkcoin or whatever the asshole's name is.. It seems to be posting the same message and over...
So surely a simple solution would be: Check if the post is the same as a previous post in the last 24H and if so disallow it?
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I've offered that myself, actually, SexyMoustache (can I call you SexyM? lol)
The problem is that the mods don't have the power to change configurations or enable/disable add-ons and whatnot. They can just delete posts, move them, etc. And believe me, they delete hundreds or even thousands of the fucking spam threads already.
I've seen no comment by DPR or Inigo (admin) or anybody else about why they haven't enabled catpchas to start new threads. Trivial and would at the very least force the spammer to buy a contract with a captcha-solving service, which would hopefully make it unprofitable to even bother. Voila, problem solved.
Why hasn't it been done? I just don't know. Hey DPR! Hey, hey, down here...! Yeah, hi :) Love your work, BTW. What's up with the acceptance of spammers grinding our beautiful community into the ground, though, man? :P
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I've offered that myself, actually, SexyMoustache (can I call you SexyM? lol)
The problem is that the mods don't have the power to change configurations or enable/disable add-ons and whatnot. They can just delete posts, move them, etc. And believe me, they delete hundreds or even thousands of the fucking spam threads already.
I've seen no comment by DPR or Inigo (admin) or anybody else about why they haven't enabled catpchas to start new threads. Trivial and would at the very least force the spammer to buy a contract with a captcha-solving service, which would hopefully make it unprofitable to even bother. Voila, problem solved.
Why hasn't it been done? I just don't know. Hey DPR! Hey, hey, down here...! Yeah, hi :) Love your work, BTW. What's up with the acceptance of spammers grinding our beautiful community into the ground, though, man? :P
Might I drop a bit of info on this situation.
When I was a moderator I was specifically told not to bother with the Spam but that there are specific figures in the community called SPam Busters that deal with this spam. Even though I was told not to bother the spam I still deleted as much as possible. So the fact of this situation is there is 2 Spam Busters... http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?action=mlist;sa=search .
So you can see there is not enough Spam Buster to deal with all the spam quickly enough to not have 70% of the members wading over spam threads. Further more of the 2 Spam Busters It is my belief that they are only in 2 time zones so this creates several gaps of time when they are not online to delete the Spam add that to these Spam Busters IRL Jobs and these guys are at full speed always trying to clean up the spam.
As to why these has not to been taken care of you guess is as good as mine, but in the mean time either we deal with the situation or pull out the botnets to spam the spammer.
X)
nomad bloodbath
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This problem could addressed in an automated way by allowing accounts with fewer than 100 posts to only start 1 new thread per hour. The spammer could create lots of new accounts, but at least it would slow him down, and he would get tired of doing it more quickly. Last night he was left to his own devices for over 2 hours and filled every subforum with pages and pages of spam threads. I believe he only quit when he finally got bored or tired.
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It's kind of strange. I mean, I'm sure this was some sort of browser failure, but yesterday I was told that a post I attempted after preview couldn't be made because I'd "posted less than 0 seconds ago". Yet spamhead can jerk off all over the forums apparently without restriction. It sucks to be that guy who says "surely there's a tech fix" but I mean, come on.
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Yeah, happens to me all the time trying to do searches. That one's 5 seconds. I assume it's something or other to do with all of our IP addresses appearing to the forum as "127.0.0.1" (the local loopback address, as in that's always the computer you're on). So it thinks all of us posted from the forum server's IP :)
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Can they not just select user delete forum account and delete/remove all posts, i know this is an option on php and would remove every thread they create in a second.
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GreenGiant, even if they could, someone with the power to do it has to be online. Right now there are 3 admins, 2 mods and 2 spam busters, and hours can go by before one of them logs on. In the mean time, the forums are rendered almost unusable from the pages of spam. If they don't want to delegate spam busting authority to more people, they should work on an automated solution.
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I think it's ironic this got lost in the spam lol. I'll bump it.
But seriously its annoying and some poor cunt will fall for it I'm sure.
Dank
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Would adding a Captcha when you create your forum account help at all? I have no idea how any of this would work. Just making a suggestion.
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just ban any posts containing *btkoin*
simple enough shit.
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just ban any posts containing *btkoin*
simple enough shit.
ummm, no?
they'll just post something like "hey check out this btc buying site" over and over instead. banning words doesn't prevent spam because they don't have to include the site name in the title.
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I think it's ironic this got lost in the spam lol. I'll bump it.
But seriously its annoying and some poor cunt will fall for it I'm sure.
Dank
LOL right X-P
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Also as has been mentioned earlier many times I don`t think anyone aould object to some captchas whether they are when you register for an account or when you post a new thread.I do feel bad for kind of calling out the mods I too wish DPR and inigo would formally address this problem of course I say this in the most respectful way We all know how much DPR already has on his plate right now. I am not sure what the policy is on enlisting spam busters to delete threads but I would be willing to volunteer to help in that process.
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The temporary solution is to avoid the forum from around 300 to 1000 UTC. That's when the least people are around and the spammer goes wild.
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just ban any posts containing *btkoin*
simple enough shit.
ummm, no?
they'll just post something like "hey check out this btc buying site" over and over instead. banning words doesn't prevent spam because they don't have to include the site name in the title.
its their domain name meaning how they access the site. no one will go through effort to put together a url that is split up if they actually did what you say