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Spammers Attacking Blog entries (again) ...

MacTuxLinMacTuxLin Posts: 821
edited 2013-03-19 02:09 in General Discussion
Hi Moderators,

Just a heads up, saw another long list of spams in blog entries ....

Comments

  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2013-03-16 07:06
    This seems to come in waves ... a few days of 15 or so spam posts by some kind of spambot, then it tapers off. Unfortunately, it's much more work to clean up the blog than in the forums ... several separate steps. In the forums, once you delete one posting by a spammer, you get the option for the forum software to delete all other forum entries by the same spammer. Not so in the blogs.
  • MacTuxLinMacTuxLin Posts: 821
    edited 2013-03-16 07:56
    Sigh...these spammers are just wasting our VIPs precious time!
  • davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
    edited 2013-03-16 10:19
    Mac (and anyone else finding spam), Thanks for the heads up.

    The best approach is to report the offending entry as doing so basically raises a flag that the moderators see. From that point, we can speedily take care of the issue.

    There are around 5 (I think) active moderators spread out amongst the USA time zones. But there are many more "user eyes" that can notice a spam before we can.

    Thanks for remaining watchful!
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2013-03-16 13:11
    Mike Green wrote: »
    This seems to come in waves ... a few days of 15 or so spam posts by some kind of spambot, then it tapers off. Unfortunately, it's much more work to clean up the blog than in the forums ... several separate steps. In the forums, once you delete one posting by a spammer, you get the option for the forum software to delete all other forum entries by the same spammer. Not so in the blogs.

    Time for updated or new blog software?
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2013-03-16 13:54
    Can they be located via IP address? If posted, maybe some nice person in the neighborhood would drop by and knee cap them? Figuratively speaking, of course.
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2013-03-17 12:28
    I use IPNetinfo http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ipnetinfo.html to check the subnet spam comes from, and well...

    Blocking some Swedish 'VPN' ranges (iPredator being the most well, known), some Russian/Ukrainian/Latvian and even a couple of US-based ranges cut down drastically on the spam arriving in my rather defunct forum.
  • MacTuxLinMacTuxLin Posts: 821
    edited 2013-03-18 06:25
    Sorry guys. Here they go again ....
  • davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
    edited 2013-03-18 08:42
    MacTuxLin wrote: »
    Sorry guys. Here they go again ....

    Thanks Mac.

    FYI - you can flag the moderators by using the "report" button at the bottom of an offending blog entry. This will automatically create a record that can be utilized during the deletion process.

    :thumb:
  • MacTuxLinMacTuxLin Posts: 821
    edited 2013-03-18 16:20
    davejames wrote: »
    Thanks Mac.

    FYI - you can flag the moderators by using the "report" button at the bottom of an offending blog entry. This will automatically create a record that can be utilized during the deletion process.

    :thumb:

    Oops, sorry Dave. Just saw a few of them & assumed more were to come. OK, I'll sure to do that the next round...

    Cheers
  • davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
    edited 2013-03-18 18:18
    MacTuxLin wrote: »
    Oops, sorry Dave. Just saw a few of them & assumed more were to come. OK, I'll sure to do that the next round...

    Cheers


    ...no problem. Thanks for keeping watch!

    :thumb:
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2013-03-18 19:33
    I don't do blogs, and I never look at anyone else's. The forum itself is entirely adequate for my needs. Drilling down to the core premises of this thread, are you sure blogging is even necessary? If no one started blogs, blog spam would be a non-issue. Just because the facility is there doesn't mean it has intrinsic value or that anyone must use it.

    -Phil
  • davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
    edited 2013-03-18 22:01
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    I don't do blogs, and I never look at anyone else's.

    -Phil

    Well, then I'd say you're missing some interesting information. :cool:

    Spam is spam to me no matter where it happens to land in the Forum, and it's destined to feel the crushing blow of my "m-stick"!
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2013-03-18 23:02
    I guess my point is that if the blog facility wasn't there to start with, all the good stuff extant in the blogs -- and I'm sure there's much of great value there; I just don't care to make an effort to read it -- would be available to read in the forum. Why have two separate venues for the same material? 'Especially when it's obviously causing managerial distress?

    -Phil
  • davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
    edited 2013-03-19 00:00
    ...point taken.

    Why two venues? Dunno.

    Tired - time for bed.

    Nighty-nite!
  • MacTuxLinMacTuxLin Posts: 821
    edited 2013-03-19 01:26
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    Why have two separate venues for the same material?
    -Phil

    OK, I'll make sure not to post the info in my blog in the forum :tongue:
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-03-19 02:09
    We have blogs?

    I guess that's another place where you can never find anything.
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