May 18, 2018 at 6:02 am
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Jeff Moden - Thursday, May 17, 2018 9:43 PMGood lord! Have you seen the spam tonight? It has affected all of the top 5 or 6 forums on this site and there's 40 to 50 on each forum. It's just crazy.
I've found that if you report 3 of their posts they all (magically) disappear; guessing that there's some logic where users with high rep can force an anti-spam rule. There's was loads the other day, think I reported a user 9 times or something silly, as soon as one batch was gone, they started up again.
Got to agree, I do think that newly registered users might need to have slightly lower permissions; it's so frustrating to see an entire page of utter crap.
Thom~
Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk
May 18, 2018 at 7:46 am
ThomasRushton - Friday, May 18, 2018 5:56 AMPhil Parkin - Friday, May 18, 2018 5:24 AMStill getting notifications ...The most recent notification I had was from about an hour ago (at 11:52am BST)
I've not killed any fresh accounts since I posted above. I guess the mail system is struggling to keep up. Or someone else is also playing whack-a-spammer
I think you are right about the mail system playing catch-up. I'm still getting notifications, but I can see that the associated posts have been torched.
If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.
May 18, 2018 at 10:39 am
Deleted more than 1000 spam mails and it keeps coming :crazy:
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May 18, 2018 at 12:02 pm
Eirikur Eiriksson - Friday, May 18, 2018 10:39 AMDeleted more than 1000 spam mails and it keeps coming :crazy:
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Me too.
If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.
May 18, 2018 at 9:04 pm
Abandon yea of all hope. The SPAM is back again.
C'mon, Redgate. Time to get your junk straightened out. If you can't even control a forum, do you think new customers will trust you with their data? Think about it.
--Jeff Moden
May 19, 2018 at 1:05 am
Jeff Moden - Friday, May 18, 2018 9:04 PMAbandon yea of all hope. The SPAM is back again.C'mon, Redgate. Time to get your junk straightened out. If you can't even control a forum, do you think new customers will trust you with their data? Think about it.
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May 19, 2018 at 1:32 am
4776 spam notifications and counting :angry:
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Unsubscribed from all forums until this mess is resolved.
May 20, 2018 at 7:08 pm
Looks like another bad spam night now. User mfgdhtvghbt posting hordes of long messages in (I think) Chinese.
Tom
May 21, 2018 at 2:42 am
TomThomson - Sunday, May 20, 2018 7:08 PMLooks like another bad spam night now. User mfgdhtvghbt posting hordes of long messages in (I think) Chinese.
Just had another influx...
Can we not filter against these? Surely there's something that can be patternmatched...
Thomas Rushton
blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com
May 21, 2018 at 5:36 am
Reading the comments about the spam storm I'm almost afraid to go hit my usual "newest posts" button...
May 21, 2018 at 5:39 am
jasona.work - Monday, May 21, 2018 5:36 AMReading the comments about the spam storm I'm almost afraid to go hit my usual "newest posts" button...
Heh. It was OK the last time I checked, but if you find anything, let someone know...
Thomas Rushton
blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com
May 21, 2018 at 5:56 am
I whacked 4 spam generating users last night... right after I saw Tom's email.
Still, this junk should never be making it to the forums. There should be some form of "Captcha" in the process of becoming a new SSC member and I don't mind something like that for everyday posts.
--Jeff Moden
May 21, 2018 at 6:22 am
Jeff Moden - Monday, May 21, 2018 5:56 AMI whacked 4 spam generating users last night... right after I saw Tom's email.Still, this junk should never be making it to the forums. There should be some form of "Captcha" in the process of becoming a new SSC member and I don't mind something like that for everyday posts.
Perhaps users with <5 posts need a captcha ....
May 21, 2018 at 6:32 am
DesNorton - Monday, May 21, 2018 6:22 AMJeff Moden - Monday, May 21, 2018 5:56 AMI whacked 4 spam generating users last night... right after I saw Tom's email.Still, this junk should never be making it to the forums. There should be some form of "Captcha" in the process of becoming a new SSC member and I don't mind something like that for everyday posts.
Perhaps users with <5 posts need a captcha ....
Another idea would be to add a time constraint: users who have been members for < 1 month, perhaps.
If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.
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