Spam on the front page comments
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Can somebody do something about all the spam that's been appearing on the comments to the front page articles? Usually it's just text and I ignore it. But today it's quite pornographic. I sometimes sent my coworkers links to the articles and I don't want them to run into anything like that
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@slapout1 Oh no, the front page spam has spilled over. Now people spam requesting to remove the spam
Filed Under: There is a frontpage?
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@slapout1 said in Spam on the front page comments:
the front page articles
We have a front page ?
But today it's quite pornographic.
Not the first time.
I sometimes sent my coworkers links to the articles and I don't want them to run into anything like that
Stop sending them links
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Ok, I killed the three spam posts I could see.
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@ben_lubar would it be too much work to just make Guest posts that contain links/images or really spammy-looking text go into a moderation queue for approval before they're displayed?
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@anotherusername said in Spam on the front page comments:
@ben_lubar would it be too much work to just make Guest posts that contain links/images or really spammy-looking text go into a moderation queue for approval before they're displayed?
I had a thing that changed images to links for all comments, but it doesn't seem to have been deployed yet.
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@ben_lubar another thing, is IP banning the spammer(s) just completely ineffective? Are they using a botnet or what?
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@slapout1 said in Spam on the front page comments:
But today it's quite pornographic.
Yeah, it's good ol' meatspin.
Why on Earth is there a way to insert images? @ben_lubar can we not disable that?
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@Maciejasjmj the front page comments allow markdown.
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@anotherusername yeah, but you can just pick a Markdown subset, right?
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@Maciejasjmj I don't really mind if the comments can include images, but they ought to be moderated somehow. Given that we're not authenticating guest users, we should be able to figure out some better way of moderating them than it only being after the posts are noticed and reported and a mod/admin sees the report and gets around to it.
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@anotherusername Some sites put all guest posts into a moderation queue. Dunno how practical that would be for TDWTF, but it's an idea.
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@anotherusername said in Spam on the front page comments:
@ben_lubar another thing, is IP banning the spammer(s) just completely ineffective? Are they using a botnet or what?
It seems to be a single IP, so I've blocked it in Windows Firewall.
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@Maciejasjmj said in Spam on the front page comments:
@slapout1 said in Spam on the front page comments:
But today it's quite pornographic.
Yeah, it's good ol' meatspin.
What a dick move.
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@Maciejasjmj said in Spam on the front page comments:
Yeah, it's good ol' meatspin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-N1yJyrQRY
I don't see what's so bad about it.
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@ben_lubar Out of interest, does the IP address match that of the forum user whose name they used?
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@hungrier said in Spam on the front page comments:
@ben_lubar Out of interest, does the IP address match that of the forum user whose name they used?
The IP address does not match any forum user.
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@ben_lubar I figured as much
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@Maciejasjmj said in Spam on the front page comments:
Yeah, it's good ol' meatspin.
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@anotherusername said in Spam on the front page comments:
moderation queue for approval before they're displayed?
Now you need to find someone willing to moderate the front page.
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@boomzilla said in Spam on the front page comments:
Now you need to find someone willing to moderate the front page.
That sound like work, so you better not count on our administrators to do it
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@TimeBandit I wouldn't mind if it were part of the forum like it used to be. But it isn't, so...
I haven't been to the front page in...I can't remember. Maybe someday we'll get that plugin working that posts off of the rss feed.
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@boomzilla said in Spam on the front page comments:
I haven't been to the front page in...I can't remember.
Front page? What's a front page?
Seriously, I think I may have been to the front page once since we switched from to . I do miss having it linked from the forum; it was fun getting to read the articles two days before everybody else, although Paula messing up the link again got old fairly quickly.
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@HardwareGeek said in Spam on the front page comments:
Front page? What's a front page?
Filed under: Somebody had to post it, right?
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@Polygeekery Next you'll be telling us that politics are making you sour and you're voting for the Lemon Party.
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@Gurth said in Spam on the front page comments:
Somebody had to post it, right?
Indeed. However,
... woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
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@HardwareGeek Woe to you who sends the Beast with wrath; let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the Beast for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty six.
I... don't know why this came to mind.
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@Arantor Is it bad that my mind automatically followed that with "I left alone, My mind was blank, I needed time to think, to get the memories from my mind..."
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@Arantor said in Spam on the front page comments:
I... don't know why this came to mind.
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@mott555 no, no it is not. This is the correct answer.
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@TimeBandit This is the correct image.