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ukfilm
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 Posted - 05/14/2008 : 04:07:06
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When i get a spammer I usually authenticate their membership then lock them out.
However I'm now getting a lot of spam from the same IP addresses. Is there a way to lock out specific ip adresses?
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Admin
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ukfilm
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ukfilm
Junior Member
123 Posts |
Posted - 05/27/2008 : 17:02:57
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Thanks for doing that. The difference is dramatic. No spam posters for ages. |
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Dr Chou En Ginsberg
New Member
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 06/24/2008 : 01:11:22
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I am new to this as I have never had to deal with porn spam before. But we got a whole load of unsolicited and highly graphic filth on our Forums this morning. I have deleted the thread but before I did this I took details of the post content. I have also emailed the ISPs Comcast Customer Security Assurance with details of the ISP and the unsolicited porn as well as informed the poster that I am keeping detailed records and that any further attempts will be recorded and forwarded to the appropriate authorities ... trouble is I haven't a clue of whom that might actually be  . Still the ISP is 67.188.82.31.
if you want details of the post content I could PM them I suppose.
Chouenginsberg from: You must be logged in to see this link. |
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Admin
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Éire
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Posted - 06/24/2008 : 16:55:08
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Make a hidden spam forum and move the porn spam posts there instead of deleting them. I'll have a look at them and see if there's anything I can do to prevent them from doing it again. You should lock the member rather than delete them.
Bad news is that its usually automated and not a real person. |
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Dr Chou En Ginsberg
New Member
United Kingdom
96 Posts |
Posted - 06/25/2008 : 00:49:49
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That is what I thought ... I just got an email back from Comcast Customer Security Assurance who told me very nicely that they need more information.
"Dear ***************,
Thank you for contacting the Comcast Customer Security Assurance
Department. We need additional information from you, such as the actual
emails with logs and other headers proving sender a Comcast IP address,
before we can proceed with our investigation. For us to investigate the
issue further, we suggest you speak to a Customer Security Assurance
Representative, by calling us at 856-317-7272. "
As I do not have an email header, never having received an email, I suppose I am stuck there unless of course the email I sent to the spammer would give them that information?
I will look into getting a hidden forum and if it happens again I shall do as you suggest. Thank you for your advice Padraic and in future I will lock rather then delete. |
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Admin
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Posted - 06/25/2008 : 17:38:05
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There's no point in dealing with Comcast. I guarantee that they just don't want to know.
You can also add the url to your bad word filter. It should break both the links and the images in the porn post should they try it again. At the end of the day its very hard to stop a human spammer. What would you think of a "spam" button that added all links to the badword filter & locked the user ? |
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Dr Chou En Ginsberg
New Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/25/2008 : 23:14:48
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| Now that sounds good Padraic ... Though I am supposed to have a team in reality there is only me looking after the forums and I cannot be here 24/7 ... Would a Spam Button be something members could use? I suppose it would need an override facility in case an overzealous member - and yes, there are some and boy oh boy do they cause some behind the scenes work) gets het up over something innocuous to most but personally offensive. I know a couple of members for instance would consider the image of the Alison Lapper statue on Trafalgar Square as 'soft' porn. |
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Dr Chou En Ginsberg
New Member
United Kingdom
96 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2008 : 04:42:56
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| Fair enough ... that would simplify matters. |
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WER
Starting Member
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Posted - 06/26/2008 : 04:45:53
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I've got a troll on one of my forums who turns out to the chairman of my local tenants' association! A nutter who likes to boast he's an ex-policeman and as it turns out trolls forums as a hobby. He tried mine. I've outed him, but he keeps coming back using other people's computers (and therefore fresh IP addresses!). I know it's him. He's a real nuisance.
I've posted this little essay about trolls:
TROLLS 
Recently we've had incidents of malicious folk trolling this forum.
Trolling is a game about identity deception, albeit one that is played without the consent of most of the players. The troll attempts to pass as a legitimate participant, sharing the group's common interests and concerns; the forum members, if they are cognizant of trolls and other identity deceptions, attempt to both distinguish real from trolling postings and, upon judging a poster to be a troll, make the offending poster leave the group. Their success at the former depends on how well they - and the troll - understand identity cues; their success at the latter depends on whether the troll's enjoyment is sufficiently diminished or outweighed by the costs imposed by the group.
Responding to a troll is very tempting, especially since these posts are designed to incite. Yet this is where the troll can cause the most harm, by diverting the discussion off the forum topic and into a heated argument. Others who have responded in person to forum harassers have been mail-bombed or have had their own system administrator - or boss - contacted and told that they were making trouble on-line. This is what is currently being done to me.
Contacting the offender's system administrator is usually done as a last resort, when it is clear that the rules of forum etiquette have been transgressed. How seriously the system administrators or other authorities take such complaints varies greatly from provider to provider. Most do nothing. Trolling is seen as a negative but inevitable cost of living in a free society.
Trolls can be costly in several ways. A troll can disrupt the discussion on a forum, disseminate bad advice, and damage the feeling of trust in the forum community. Furthermore, in a group that has become sensitized to trolling - where the rate of deception is high - many honestly naive questions may be quickly rejected as trollings. This can be quite off-putting to the new user who upon venturing a first posting is immediately bombarded with angry accusations.
Trolls can also have a damaging impact on a new forum. A newcomer may go in and see little but pointless aggressive argument and so be put off ever entering the forum again. This appears to have happened here. However this forum is in it for the long-term, will recover from these attacks, and in time will become a strong local meeting-point.
p.s. There is some entertainment to be had from the forum You must be logged in to see this link.dedicated to trolls. Beware - It's quite offensive! 
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Dr Chou En Ginsberg
New Member
United Kingdom
96 Posts |
 Posted - 06/26/2008 : 09:48:43
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They are back only this time it is supersize me ...
I've done my best to remove it from the eyes of my members but would really love to remove this from my forums altogether asap.
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jox
Junior Member
Canada
115 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2008 : 12:12:39
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| I am having a real problem with porn spammers lately. We have been investigating the matter, and I've been checking the ISP numbers to see whether they are bots or human, and so far my team and I have found over 30 members to be spammers. so we lock them out, and placed their user name in the banned name filter, and several variations of spelling of the user names. but the keep coming, and it is hurting my forum becasue really, on me and one other person are up keeping and "policing" the forums, out of my team of about six. and like, Dr Chou En Ginsberg mentioned, we can't be there 24/7. is there anyways to filter out atleast spam bots? currently we are having our members add more detail to their profiles, Human spammers will be able to compensate but i do not believe the bots will be able to. are there any other suggestions? |
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