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MegaGlest => Forum discussion => Topic started by: firedeathbot on 21 May 2007, 12:50:17

Title: Moderators?
Post by: firedeathbot on 21 May 2007, 12:50:17: Do we need more modderators because we seem to be getting some spam that just sits around a few days?
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Post by: @kukac@ on 21 May 2007, 13:48:03: dont know what are you talking about. basically, im here every day, to fight with the evil spammers ;)
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Post by: HyperQuantum on 21 May 2007, 14:14:29: Quote from: @kukac@
dont know what are you talking about. basically, im here every day, to fight with the evil spammers ;)

Do you also delete the user accounts that are used to post spam? If you take a look at the member list (http://www.glest.org/glest_board/memberlist.php) (reverse the sort order to see the newest accounts on top), there are lots of accounts with zero posts. If you delete a spam message, it might be a good idea to delete the spammer's user account as well (if it has only been used for spam), because that account probably will never be used again anyway.

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Such a user account often has a link in its profile to some spammer's website. By not removing the account you help the spammer by increasing its Google page rank.
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Post by: @kukac@ on 21 May 2007, 14:54:19: the moderators are not allowed to delete user accounts
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Post by: firedeathbot on 21 May 2007, 16:37:17: Quote from: "@kukac@"
dont know what are you talking about. basically, im here every day, to fight with the evil spammers :wink: - @kukac@]
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Post by: RainCT on 21 May 2007, 17:06:07: Quote from: firedeathbot
[maybe, topics of spam. removing a whole forum because of one spam post, would be interesting ;) - @kukac@]

Well, all SPAM is comming to the General forum, but I don't think renaming it would help (I had the same problem on a own forum and even changing that forum's ID didn't help :S).
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Post by: @kukac@ on 21 May 2007, 17:08:50: because of the spam posts (topics) usually goes to the first forum that allows to start a new topic. in our board, its the general discussion. i also remember, when we had spam in the development forum too.
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Post by: firedeathbot on 21 May 2007, 17:41:33: Quote from: "firedeathbot"
Quote from: "@kukac@"
dont know what are you talking about. basically, im here every day, to fight with the evil spammers :wink: - @kukac@]

i guess you misunderstood me

I didn't mean that we should just delete the forums and start a new one everytime someone posted spam!
i meant that maybe we need more moderators to get rid of spam topics because i hate opening a topic only to fing its a bunch of junk! [k - @kukac@]
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Post by: RainCT on 21 May 2007, 19:03:24: Quote from: "firedeathbot"
I didn't mean that we should just delete the forums and start a new one everytime someone posted spam!
i meant that maybe we need more moderators to get rid of spam topics because i hate opening a topic only to fing its a bunch of junk! [k - @kukac@]

Well, we weren't really thinking about delete the forum. Were you, @kukac@? :twisted: - @kukac@]
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Post by: firedeathbot on 21 May 2007, 20:30:14: ?? why deleting the forum is out of question,,

:idea:

evil thought:mrgreen:

i will purge the worlg of glest forums from spam!!!!

actually you will, while i watch!
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Post by: RainCT on 21 May 2007, 21:04:04: Quote from: firedeathbot
actually you will, while i watch!

:D
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Post by: firedeathbot on 21 May 2007, 22:28:47: lol (laugh out loud)
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Post by: @kukac@ on 13 June 2007, 13:44:05: i will answer to jbr in this topic:

the spam posts will be always deleted, even if it takes at least 2 days. but as you see, we cant be here all the time, to delete the spammers.
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Post by: hailstone on 13 June 2007, 21:41:46: I think there should be a topic that tells people we don't want those kind of posts.
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Post by: Nitecreeper on 16 June 2007, 10:41:10: easy. they are annoying, and you can't find topics amongts all the failed advertising. say no to spam, ladies and gentlemen!
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Post by: rudravishnu on 17 June 2007, 01:43:28: Quote from: hailstone
I think there should be a topic that tells people we don't want those kind of posts.
do you think they would care all those request :evil: :evil: >:(
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Post by: @kukac@ on 17 June 2007, 08:14:29: please aware the double posts too. anyway, i currently do not know any better ideas against the spam, only deleting the topics.
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Post by: andyglest on 25 June 2007, 18:32:41: yes, but forum administrator can delete accounts. thats martino, right? i put my fingers into creating phpbb forums, so i explored that functions. administrator is something like owner of forum.
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Post by: @kukac@ on 27 June 2007, 18:18:43: I must announce this: I just deleted a spam post, which had 901 (!!!) links!!!
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Post by: andyglest on 27 June 2007, 18:22:45: Quote from: "@kukac@"
I must announce this: I just deleted a spam post, which had 901 (!!!) links!!!

yea i just saw it it was on board before five minutes and now u deleted it. i didn't read it, but it will probably be more spams like that.
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Post by: @kukac@ on 27 June 2007, 18:27:38: this post could not be in the guiness records because of me!
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Post by: andyglest on 27 June 2007, 18:39:01: Quote from: @kukac@
this post could not be in the guiness records because of me!
:D
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Post by: RainCT on 28 June 2007, 11:53:58: @kukac@: I've deleted the post "Let's get acquainted My name is Tomas!" since it's certainly SPAM, I've just seen an identical post on another board where I'm moderator xDD.
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Post by: @kukac@ on 28 June 2007, 11:59:53: then check the "Hello people" topic, that was a spam post too. also, i wanted to give the others a feedback, that we are checking the spam post, not just sleeping while the bots are began their evil mission against the Glest Board!
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Post by: andyglest on 30 June 2007, 15:28:39: Quote from: "@kukac@"
I must announce this: I just deleted a spam post, which had 901 (!!!) links!!!

i just saw one more. it have 451 links.
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Post by: @kukac@ on 30 June 2007, 17:24:59: it had
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Post by: andyglest on 30 June 2007, 17:50:30: Quote from: @kukac@
it had
;) nice work
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Post by: @kukac@ on 30 June 2007, 18:25:42: Quote from: "HyperQuantum"
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Such a user account often has a link in its profile to some spammer's website. By not removing the account you help the spammer by increasing its Google page rank.

i will tell you, that there is 1451 accounts without post, and we have 650 accounts with at least 1 post. so why would the spam bots increase the pagerank?
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Post by: andyglest on 30 June 2007, 19:07:18: Quote from: "@kukac@"
Quote from: "HyperQuantum"
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Such a user account often has a link in its profile to some spammer's website. By not removing the account you help the spammer by increasing its Google page rank.

i will tell you, that there is 1451 accounts without post, and we have 650 accounts with at least 1 post. so why would the spam bots increase the pagerank?

he is saying about spammer's website page rank.
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Post by: andyglest on 30 June 2007, 19:23:18: AGAIN! this is too much. someone please contact tucho to delete all accounts that posted a spam ever. he is administrator of this board and can delete accounts. there is no mail in his profile. (http://http://www.glest.org/glest_board/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=74)
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Post by: hailstone on 1 July 2007, 13:03:18: What about getting everyone to click a link in their email then after a month or something whoever hasn't will be deleted? (I'm not sure if it's possible though)
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Post by: @kukac@ on 1 July 2007, 14:01:58: well, personally i thought, that who hasnt got at least 1 post after registering a week (so we have to delete the spam within 1 week) the account would be deleted. also, for real users, there should be an activity topic.
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Post by: @kukac@ on 1 July 2007, 15:50:26: i think he is currently modelling something else ;) and you cant command the administrator(s) to delete this, and this account.

EDIT: also, check the memberlist in descending mode. Tucho will not delete all of those accounts.
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Post by: andyglest on 1 July 2007, 16:09:56: Quote from: "@kukac@"
also, check the memberlist in descending mode..

i did already - and thats what im talking about
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Post by: andyglest on 2 July 2007, 15:23:59: Quote from: "@kukac@"
and you cant command the administrator(s) to delete this, and this account..

just to make things clearlier - thats not any kind of command. i just think it would be easier to delete account before they occupy us :lol:
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Post by: @kukac@ on 9 July 2007, 10:45:20: Zlrifeqx, @kukac@ is watching you! Don't dare to post a spam!
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Post by: RainCT on 9 July 2007, 10:56:11: Quote from: @kukac@
Zlrifeqx, @kukac@ is watching you! Don't dare to post a spam!

And me too 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) ( <- my bodyguards ^^)
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Post by: HyperQuantum on 9 July 2007, 10:59:24: I still think a nice solution would be to require that the first message of a new account is reviewed by a moderator before it appears on the forum. If a spammer then wants to get his message on the forum, he would need to post an on-topic message first; and I don't see a spam bot doing that.
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Post by: @kukac@ on 9 July 2007, 11:14:35: we were talking about in different solution in at least 20 topics (mostly in spam topics, so they got deleted), but nothing has changed.
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Post by: andyglest on 9 July 2007, 13:47:31: Quote from: "RainCT"
Quote from: "@kukac@"
Zlrifeqx, @kukac@ is watching you! Don't dare to post a spam!

And me too 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) :lol: :lol:
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Post by: RainCT on 9 July 2007, 14:09:23: Quote from: "HyperQuantum"
I still think a nice solution would be to require that the first message of a new account is reviewed by a moderator before it appears on the forum. If a spammer then wants to get his message on the forum, he would need to post an on-topic message first; and I don't see a spam bot doing that.

The solution is damn easier. Just put a "I am a human" checkbox on the signup page and this will stop the bots. The CAPTCHA doesn't work because probably it's a well known phpBB mod that the bots already know, but if a site has a own solution they won't know how to solve it.
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Post by: andyglest on 9 July 2007, 14:14:56: i think there is no such solution. i think all that spams were added manually. registered manually, and then pasted pre-written spam into topic, and then clicked Submit.
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Post by: @kukac@ on 9 July 2007, 14:29:06: Quote from: "andyglest"
i think there is no such solution. i think all that spams were added manually. registered manually, and then pasted pre-written spam into topic, and then clicked Submit.

thats an option what we must count too.
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Post by: encoish on 20 July 2007, 05:09:27: Uh, I see quite a few spam topics in development, and one in general with the name, black jack online. Theres some quite disturbing ! ones in development. I think they've been sitting around for quite a while. Just saying.

And I totally agree that spammers should get their accounts deleted, or even their ip addresses banned if they seriously offend. And moderators should be able to "get promoted" to be able to delete accounts after proving themselves. Maybe that would work.
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Post by: hailstone on 20 July 2007, 05:17:21: Quote
I think they've been sitting around for quite a while.
They've been there less then 24 hours and it probably won't be there too much longer. The moderators do a good job of removing spam. :)
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Post by: @kukac@. on 20 July 2007, 08:52:18: I agree!
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Post by: @kukac@ on 20 July 2007, 08:53:16: If someone wants to post a spam, he dont need too much time...
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Post by: hailstone on 20 July 2007, 23:31:50: Quote
I agree!
Was that you kukac? lol :O
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Post by: enveloop on 21 July 2007, 00:22:19: I say NO to spam XD. Just deleted one, itÂ´s really annoying.
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Post by: @kukac@. on 21 July 2007, 08:55:06: just checked what do i need to do for register a new account :) dont worry, its me :)