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[jefflewis]

Dang, how to get rid of these crazy spammers!? Why (and how) do they actually bother to sign up for message board accounts, and then make long posts in Russian?

[misshelenc]

I don't know, sometimes they post more than actual people do which is a bit depressing! I expect we just need to be vigilant and delete them, or put in some kind of thing whereby you have to be approved to post here somehow by an actual human being...I am not sure if that works or how you would tell if it was a spammer but still...really what I'm trying to say is I don't know how to get rid of them but they should be got rid of! At least the pizza equipment people actually posted in English, I have not seen many Russians posting here! x
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[jefflewis]

Yeah, isn't there some kind of process when signing up for board-usage that requires you to prove you're not a robot/spammer? Maybe these are smart human spammers? But why would a smart human Russian spammer bother signing in to an obviously English-language message board only to make long posts in Russian? Who knows, maybe the long Russian posts are real people writing a detailed discussion of the history of Antifolk or something. Seems unlikely!

[misshelenc]

Until someone Russian speaking can shed some light I will place my bets on the idea that they aren't writing some kind of genius essay!
I am not sure what the process is to sign up here...I did it quite a few years ago and have long since forgotten, but I am pretty sure most places you have to write out some random words or answer a question or something. But as to the answer why you'd bother well, I have no answer! Only that people are strange and get up to all sorts! x
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[jefflewis]

Yeah... those anti-spam programs where you have to write out a word/numbers that you see written in script would seem to be a safe way to dissuade robots but maybe there's even a robot way around those things at this point. Even a russian robot way around those things!
Hmm, maybe I'll stick the long russian email into a translator service just to see if it's the usual sort of scam or anything more interesting.

[jefflewis]

The translation! Just as boring as feared. But cripes, why so long???
Translated from Russian by Google Translator (obviously I've got too much time on my hands on this Friday night):

How often you are late in the office after a hard day? A sacrifice their weekend for urgent matters, or intermittently for urgent matters?
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[misshelenc]

Genius.
Your Friday nights sound about as exciting as mine!
I agree, everyone should take a holiday, but not necessarily to go somewhere else physically, go somewhere else mentally with a book, much cheaper and you can go anywhere, anytime, any place! x
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[Dav]

I've tried and added a lot of hacks to this forum to get rid of bot, unfortunatly the people creating it are always programming new one. It's emptying the ocean with a buttomless bucket The only thing that can be done, though it's boring, is to go to the admin panel, check the activated users list and delete manually all the bots.
Also i regulary add new email provider in the ban list but it always change...
I still deal with the bots from time to time, feel free to try delting it Jeff as you got admin logging, if you are not sure of what you do feel free to ask, you can't do anything bad if you use the user admin menu, you be sure that you don't delete regular users.
I suggest you don't go playing with the others menu as you can easily delete the whole forum with a bad clic. Anyway feel free to ask if you want more infos.
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[jefflewis]

Cool, thanks Dav!
I can't remember if I actually got the admin log-in info from you or not, maybe you sent it to me in an email, I'll have to check.
It's crazy that there's such an endless escalating battle between programmers and scammers, for site security! What a pain! Who has the time to be forever dealing with this stuff??
Thanks for doing so much work to bail things out despite the bottomless bucket.

[Dav]

You just have to log with your regular username and password, clic at the bottom of the page "go to admin panel".
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