[08-Mar-2012] New SPAM mitigation scheme in place

Rockspider · March 8, 2012, 4:27pm

Thanks Mr.Admin!

Good Job!

sb56637 · March 8, 2012, 5:06pm

Ah, somebody noticed. :) Unfortunately I can't immediately bring them back. Our host disabled mail sending because the excerpts of the posts by spammer contained spam links, which can cause the entire hosting company to get blacklisted. So I'd have to figure out a way to disable the links in the emails, which I don't know how to do. The only option to get our mail server re-enabled was to disable the comment excerpts. Sorry for the inconvenience!

veer · March 8, 2012, 6:01pm

Thanks for the hard work sb56637 ;)!

jacktheclipper · March 8, 2012, 6:36pm

Thank you sb .

soytnly · March 8, 2012, 6:58pm

Great job, thanks. I'm in the mood to go hunting now...

fishinfool · March 8, 2012, 8:07pm

sb56637:

OK, officially confirming the canning of the first spammer on BLF since the new system was implemented. His name was "talk", and he is survived by 102,345,655 fellow spammers, who will be following him to BLF to meet the same fate.

He made his first post at 04:59, and his 11th and last post was at 05:11. At 05:04 he received his first hit, and the KO punch was made by the heavyweight champion "Raccoon City" at 05:12. The spammer received more hits after he was already down, which were probably made to clean up residual posts that he had already made. So notice that he stopped posting 12 minutes after starting, in which time he managed to make 11 posts, and his last post and his time of banning are only one minute apart, which suggests that he would have kept on posting if it weren't for the ban. I'm pretty happy with the results, especially considering that this occurred during one of the lower traffic times at BLF. What do you think?

Way to go everybody!

Sonofspectrum · March 8, 2012, 9:09pm

Thank you

T.H.Cone · March 9, 2012, 12:04am

What those other folks said, then + 1!

Aleister · March 9, 2012, 12:32am

Thank you mr Admin!

flashination · March 9, 2012, 1:01am

OK, no where I'm I going to get the latest info on the fine line of Genuine Authentic replica knock-off Gucci products?

I'm also going to really miss all the mention of "Paisley ".

jb1 · March 9, 2012, 2:48am

SB, thanks again for all of your efforts and making this such an excellent forum! BLF rocks.

Foy · March 9, 2012, 3:59am

Awesome!

happyFoy

sb56637 · March 9, 2012, 4:09am

Many thanks to everybody for their kind words! It's a pleasure to be here with you guys.

MRsDNF · March 9, 2012, 4:22am

Good stuff sb56637. At times you probably have a pretty thankless job. Your welcome to go back to your travelling now. Its also a pleasure to have you as our admin. Cheers. 1 hour to go and its a long weekend here in Vic Aus. Yippee.

jacktheclipper · March 9, 2012, 4:46am

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benjamin_ng · March 9, 2012, 5:36am

This is great. Thanks for the hard work.

Foy · March 9, 2012, 8:09am

Jack, I have a feeling those will see use from time to time.

Foy

Vectrex · March 9, 2012, 9:21am

Does that gravedigger function really work ? I mean the re-burying of spammed threads. For example this thread has a post from 02/05/2012 at the end. Therefore it shouldn't be on starting page 2 between posts from 03/09/201.

raccoon · March 9, 2012, 9:24am

Most of the time it works... but as you have pointed out the system isn't perfect. I think it would be okay to bump any of the threads that got buried.

Vectrex · March 9, 2012, 9:33am

If there is a general glitch, the starting pages can easily become useless... even with that spam protection in place. It would be interesting to know under which circumstances it works and under which it doesn't.