You know what I mean spammers!!!!!! xD
m3tal u bought warm smd led for car in DX? If yes ty for the photos xD
today I ate maccheroni and salsiccia I'm going to buy a pizza cya
lovely spam xD
Yes, I know :bigsmile:
Yes, I did, you're welcome.
Another spambot/spammer is attacking BLF. They can be pretty annoying. So that people later will know what I am talking about, this post is all over our forum at the time of this writing:
EDIT: I just broke all of the links. Every part in bold was a link to their website.
Looks more like a manual cut'n'paste attack to me? I could write a better spambot than THAT.
I think you're right. And now it looks like they quit. They spammed 18 threads with a total of 23 posts over a 14 minute period.
I don't know how to distinguish the spam? anybody can tell me.
How about banning chenee ?
Cheneeee joined yesterday and had 57 posts already. He's trying to sell Coach bags in a budget flashlight forum. What is he thinking?
i guess he`s thinking he can sell us some of his coach bags... ;)
wiseguy lol!
Is this how CPF began the journey to the darkside? Idiots spamming and CPF trying to come up with ways to stop it. I hope we are able to kill the spam without losing the community feeling we have here.
Hmm. Next step would be to create a technical solution to prevent spam from being accepted.
For instance, generate a hash of each message over some minimum length (so :P messages don't trigger). Then just keep these hash signatures in memory for a few hours (to keep the collision checking quick) and dump any new messages that collide.
You could defeat this by changing a single letter of the comment, yes, but it would defeat pure cut/paste attacks.
Ughhhh, Cheneee is gone now with all of his bags. Sorry for the inconvenience!
I'm glad you finally "bagged" him lol
What is a coach bag anyway?
Good idea! There are implementations of algorithms that are designed to find near-matches (such as simhash and probably lots more, considering that there's a lot of interest in academia). Simhash, in particular, is actually pretty fast, relatively speaking of course.
Also, while we're talking site issues, I thought I'd bring up this thread. NeoGeo discovered that a blf.cc.cz link in an old post of mine now points to a domain squatter site. NoScript and a custom filter list actually blocked the redirection attempt in FF but when I opened the site in IE (in a separate sandbox), it redirected to a spam site. I suspect this affects all old links that point to blf.cc.cz (ie. the old site). Is there any way to re-write old links in the database so that they point to the new site? Getting the old subdomain back would obviously be easier, but I suspect the spammers won't be too happy to give it up and cc.cz is notorious for ignoring abuse cases.
It's a device that guarantees sex for a husband.
Am I the only one who finds this extremely funny? Location HK, number of posts 2 and asking about spam. Has there ever been a legitimate poster from KN or anywhere in China who mentioned apam or any website in their first couple of posts? 
So we have a spammer asking about spam The usual disclaimers apply of course…if I’m wrong I apologize! It’s funny nevertheless!
He/she/it is not trying to sell anything here. This kind of spam is about getting better search result rankings. Google used to rank results for a given search term by the number of external pages containing that term and linking to the site. I don't know if this is still the way Google works, but the spammer is clearly trying to manipulate search engines. It's not important if he pisses of the users and gets banned, as long as there is a chance of Google's crawler stopping by before his posts get deleted.