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The_Sinister_Mastermind
Overlord
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
Posts: 2757
Location: NSW, Australia, Down Under Verse
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| It's not that we can't block their IP address it's just that they have so many it would be an uphill battle on a slippery slope. |
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Dogbreath
Admin
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 3939
Location: In the back of a jacked-up Ford.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:13 am
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One thing I never figure out is why spam on different forums have different style. The main spam on this forum is the long advertisement with nonsense links. One another place seen before it's vulgar words & porn. Then some place is numberous repeated alphabets or words. Then there was one forum that allowed guest posting but had no spam. Then again there were hardly much posting in that forum too. This lead me to think maybe certain kind of spammers like to visit certain forums. Then again, there is no evidence to indicate spamming behaviour unless one conducts a survey like "Why do you like to spam". Of course no one would ever do that as it is not a wise idea.  |
Actually, our most frequent type of spam is the smiley only posts. Those usually only occur in the guest accessable forums, but are extremely prevelant. (And very annoying) We have a good share of porno posts too, but those usually get deleted before most members can see them.
I can understand spamming because it can make you money (ads), and spamming because you're mad/you're trying to be funny. But I've never understood the one smiley/one character spam posts. Why would anyone want to do that? |
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The_Sinister_Mastermind
Overlord
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
Posts: 2757
Location: NSW, Australia, Down Under Verse
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:29 am
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| Pathetic losers with far to much time on their hands perhaps? |
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JKSM
Way too much free time
Joined: 27 Apr 2003
Posts: 480
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:14 am
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| Dogbreath wrote: | Actually, our most frequent type of spam is the smiley only posts. Those usually only occur in the guest accessable forums, but are extremely prevelant. (And very annoying) We have a good share of porno posts too, but those usually get deleted before most members can see them.
I can understand spamming because it can make you money (ads), and spamming because you're mad/you're trying to be funny. But I've never understood the one smiley/one character spam posts. Why would anyone want to do that? |
Ah, I remember those "one simley post" some time back like the one  or something else. During that time, I didn't post much but I still read posts. Yeah, if they intended to spam, they should have more simlies. I don't understand it either but my guess is maybe it's a lazy spammer  (someone who wants to spam but is too lazy to type or click). Nowadays the prevalent spam seemed to have taken a different direction. Maybe there is a trend.  |
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The_Sinister_Mastermind
Overlord
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
Posts: 2757
Location: NSW, Australia, Down Under Verse
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:24 am
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So what you’re saying spam has reached the status of being a fad now?  |
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Gamer_V
Gaming Demi-god
Joined: 03 Mar 2005
Posts: 1120
Location: The Netherlands
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:37 am
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| The_Sinister_Mastermind wrote: | | Pathetic losers with far to much time on their hands perhaps? |
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emmzee
Site Admin
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 1903
Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:12 am
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I liken it to the Space Madness Ren & Stimpy episode ... the "shiny, candy-like button" ... people see the little emoticon faces in the quick reply box and can't help pressing them
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The_Sinister_Mastermind
Overlord
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
Posts: 2757
Location: NSW, Australia, Down Under Verse
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:18 pm
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| I was talking to a friend of mine who has been a webmaster for quite awhile now and he told me that the boards he's an admin at suffered from pretty much the same problems when they had guest posting enabled. Unfortunately it seems the only way around it is to turn guest posting off, there don't seem to be any phpBB hacks that can solve the problem. |
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SpaceFans
Way too much free time
Joined: 10 Jul 2005
Posts: 392
Location: Michigan
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:32 pm
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| The_Sinister_Mastermind wrote: | | I was talking to a friend of mine who has been a webmaster for quite awhile now and he told me that the boards he's an admin at suffered from pretty much the same problems when they had guest posting enabled. Unfortunately it seems the only way around it is to turn guest posting off, there don't seem to be any phpBB hacks that can solve the problem. |
OH men that suck if there no way to solve this problem I stay Think there a Away to get the bots out of here But I don`t now where to do it. |
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