Pixelation
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Crow on July 22, 2018, 09:18:37 am
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I will be stepping down from my position as an admin soon-ish, due to some internal differences. It was quite a blast :) Good luck for the future!
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I will be stepping down from my position as an admin soon-ish, due to some internal differences. It was quite a blast :) Good luck for the future!
Something you ate?
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Might have been the chicken nuggets ;p
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now that helm's helming the site, do you think we can get blanket bans for india and russia? This spam problem has exceeded its stay quite a bit.
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now that helm's helming the site, do you think we can get blanket bans for india and russia? This spam problem has exceeded its stay quite a bit.
Pixelation has many Russian users, and spammers probably use VPNs anyway :/
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now that helm's helming the site, do you think we can get blanket bans for india and russia? This spam problem has exceeded its stay quite a bit.
Pixelation has many Russian users, and spammers probably use VPNs anyway :/
also helm is not running the site
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now that helm's helming the site, do you think we can get blanket bans for india and russia? This spam problem has exceeded its stay quite a bit.
Pixelation has many Russian users, and spammers probably use VPNs anyway :/
I know the original post about it wasn’t serious, but you’re right, blanket bans don’t really stop spammers. Even if you were to ban all IPs from certain regions or all emails with certain extensions (like .ru), spammers will use proxies and emails that aren’t blocked. This is why some forums moderate new users’ posts. Other than that, reporting posts of spammers is always helpful since we can mass ban and delete their posts.
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Just want to personally thank Crow for the tremendous amount of work and dedication he's provided to Pixelation in the past. Pixelation has been running smoothly in large part by Crows efforts. Good luck with future endeavors
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Regarding spam: why don't you block posts where the title is an URL? A large chunk of the spam has a link for the title (and virtually no normal posts does that).
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Regarding spam: why don't you block posts where the title is an URL? A large chunk of the spam has a link for the title (and virtually no normal posts does that).
I’m actually not sure this is possible without writing a custom extension for it, but if you know of one, it may help slightly. Unfortunately, spammers have gotten much better at dodging traditional methods for spam detection so that most built-in ways of dealing with it (at least, ones not requiring manual labor) don’t help. The most common type is human users who post a single message that might be able to pass off as a regular post, except that they include links in their signature or profile field which are meant to be indexed by search engine bots to increase the “credibility” of their site to the search engine, thus improving their search ranking.
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Would it be possible to remove or reduce the 20 second delay on reporting posts? That really gets in the way of reporting spam.
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Would it be possible to remove or reduce the 20 second delay on reporting posts? That really gets in the way of reporting spam.
I second that.