Holy Spammer attack Batman!

[Dodgeboard]

Seems like Xenforo could use some spammer tools themselves. In just a few minutes, there have been like ten spam threads started and no mods online to deal with them. Why doesn't this site incorporate one of the many spammer plugins that use the spam databases to keep spammers out?

 

[steven s]

Agree. It's relentless.
I had a few forums that regrettably haven't devoted much time to but ended up closing them due to the volume of spam registrations.

 

[Dodgeboard]

Hit "new threads" and half of them are spam. Yikes! This looks like a test forum that I left and forgot about for a year only to return and find the database over 100 MB full of spam.

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[high1976]

it's really a little too much these days...

 

[Dodgeboard]

To me, it just looks bad for Xenforo. Like selling a house infested with rats.

 

[steven s]

To me, it just looks bad for Xenforo. Like selling a house infested with rats.

Something bad? Nahhhhh.

 

[Dodgeboard]

Slavik just killed them rats. They'll be back. Someone needs to plug the holes.

 

[craigiri]

You'd think just a few of the common tools along with manual member activation would do the job........

 

[Brandon Sheley]

I've yet to check this site in the morning and NOT see spam.
I use to report them, but it's getting old so I just skip over it these days..

 

[Dodgeboard]

elder members should propose the idea of community voting on a few select / trustworthy "elders" with some "moderator abilities".. and perhaps a few from different time-zones as well. that way they could help the current staff team when normal staff aren't around here, like an extension arm to the team. not necessarily more moderators, just normal elder members with some capabilities.

I like the idea! Just rights to use the spam cleaner to soft delete, nothing else. Not moderators, but SpamCops.

 

[Floren]

To me, it just looks bad for Xenforo. Like selling a house infested with rats.

With the developers gone rogue, I doubt this will be fixed soon. Unfortunately.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Seems like Xenforo.com could use some spammer tools themselves.

We need to have some spam volunteers & community moderation.

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clicking the spam link would send the post into moderation.

xenforo.com/community/threads/community-moderation-report-a-post-as-spam-workflow.35720/

 

[Digital Doctor]

Case in Point.

 

[ManagerJosh]

Case in Point.


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When SFS is finally rolled out, we shall look back and laugh

 

[Digital Doctor]

until the next xrumer update.

 

[digitalpoint]

When SFS is finally rolled out, we shall look back and laugh

If only there was a way to force spammers to use the same username, email and IP address... then SFS would be really useful.

 

[steven s]

If only there was a way to force spammers to use the same username, email and IP address... then SFS would be really useful.

I don't know. SFS is working very well on my vB forums.

 

[digitalpoint]

I don't know. SFS is working very well on my vB forums.

I'm sure it works for some... blocking the lowbie spammers and all, but the big time spammers aren't using the same IPs, usernames or emails... so for those, it's rather pointless unfortunately.

 

[Bubka3]

I've had KeyCaptcha stop all of them. Has anybody tried it and gotten the same results?

 

[John]

Moderate new members and they'll get bored and move on to fresh meat.