kelpaso1
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who keeps spamming with the live streaming sports. It has to be the same clown. Can his ip address not be banned?
What is with this spammer clown....
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Musicinabottle
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And the incoherent title line up? Yes, I'm an administrator on another site and I've banned a particular individual from our site that kept coming back. I believe that they keep creating new IP addresses to side step the IP address bans. Either way, it's annoying as hell these guys.
apollo11
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I wish we could torture them
apollo11
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Don't know if it's possible but..... can you make new accts. only be able to post links after 10 posts?
if it is possible, I'm not sure that would help. they could just clutter up with silly posts to get to the number.
could end up being more cumbersome in the end
apollo11
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sure but most of them won't take the time and/or it will mess up the robot spammers
HOTFR8
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They do not come back with the same IP address.
apollo11
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That is why my idea may work
it doesn't depend on an IP
it doesn't depend on an IP
It won't stop it at all. They are patient. Best thing is to report it. The mods here are like an elite ninja sniper army.
Just be glad you can't see the the threads after they are deleted. It makes a section hard to navigate and read when we get hit at times.
Musicinabottle
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That's what I thought. I know that I've dealt with the same issue with one or more spammers on my site. Eventually they give up but the problem here is the readership is so huge and often times it takes several minutes if not up to 40 minutes for a moderator to locate and kill them. In that time X amount of people have seen the thread, so they win in a sense.
apollo11
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I'd try it at least usually it's hit and run., not post post post and run
but of course, I report it
HOTFR8
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Musicinabottle
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Some of them even use multiple IP addresses.
I know some sites won't allow you to post until you're approved by staff. I assume this is so they can run your IP to see where you're from.
Lassen Forge
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They all use multiple IP addresses, use contextual phrase generators (sometimes) to come up with something they hope the admins won't catch, they also usually bury a link or 2 in there as well... Usually they will set up a BUNCH of "shell accounts" way beforehand (we saw some going back 5 years before) that sit there unused until they decide to activate and use them... costs them nothing but time and what they paid some spam-farm monkey in Timbukfour to set up these accounts. They get a spamvertizer to pay them money, and bang, use an old account.
Usually the site will boost security, make signing up harder... but there;s still the x-many unused accounts that are already thru the gate.
Ideally you would have to have a minimum post count per year, or re-sign up annually, to stay in. You don't, you're gone. The downside is it's a PITA for the users. The best they can do shy of that is have multiple admins with the power to block ip addresses and domains, and a membership who reports them as soon as their rear their ugly rears.
Usually the site will boost security, make signing up harder... but there;s still the x-many unused accounts that are already thru the gate.
Ideally you would have to have a minimum post count per year, or re-sign up annually, to stay in. You don't, you're gone. The downside is it's a PITA for the users. The best they can do shy of that is have multiple admins with the power to block ip addresses and domains, and a membership who reports them as soon as their rear their ugly rears.
HOTFR8
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It is not unusual to ban a spammer with 5 or more posts and find they have posted from 5 different IP addresses.