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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
PostPosted: Fri Nov 15, 2019 2:44 pm 
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Good news. Hopefully that will hit the spam on the head without being too onerous on the moderators.


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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
PostPosted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 2:12 pm 
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I'm puzzled as to how spam is still getting through now that new posters are pre-moderated. Have they somehow found a way to bypass the restriction? (No details of how they are doing it, pleas.)


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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
PostPosted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 5:53 pm 
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iansjack wrote:
I'm puzzled as to how spam is still getting through now that new posters are pre-moderated. Have they somehow found a way to bypass the restriction? (No details of how they are doing it, pleas.)

They're using older accounts that bypass the moderation queue.

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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
PostPosted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 12:44 am 
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Is it possible to add all accounts with a zero post count to those that are pre-moderated? If not, I guess they'll soon run out of such accounts.


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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
PostPosted: Mon Jan 06, 2020 4:40 pm 
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Just to alert the mods and chase, it seems a number of spam threads have started appearing again.


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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:48 pm 
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Hey guys

I would like to start using the forum and also understand the necessary conditions regards new users.
By writing this post I'm still waiting to get my first post approved, I registered the 30. of June.

Is there a fix amount of days to wait or should one just wait until a moderator (some day) approves the post?

I cannot recall to see any more information then I would get notices when something happens with the post.
What I'm trying to address here, is that it is many days to wait to people with interest without knowing what to expect.
Maybe procedure or information could be improved.

Cheers :)


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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 11:57 am 
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A moderator with the "approve post" permission has to manually approve the post.

(You may have guessed already that I currently do not have that permission.)


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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 1:27 pm 
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I did expect it to manually, but I did also guess that any moderator could do it, hehe.

A related question,
So my original first post is not approved yet, if it still exist. Is it true that a user cannot see ones own "pending-posts"? I guess this is more a phpBB question.
And is it still open for approval, or is it only the latest post for a new user which "exists", so I just have to write it again?


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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2020 12:36 pm 
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Rhodez wrote:
I did expect it to manually, but I did also guess that any moderator could do it, hehe.

A related question,
So my original first post is not approved yet, if it still exist. Is it true that a user cannot see ones own "pending-posts"? I guess this is more a phpBB question.
And is it still open for approval, or is it only the latest post for a new user which "exists", so I just have to write it again?

I don't know this forum's details. But generally speaking you shouldn't post it again before you got a message from an admin.


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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2020 4:53 pm 
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Rhodez wrote:
I did expect it to manually, but I did also guess that any moderator could do it, hehe.

A related question,
So my original first post is not approved yet, if it still exist. Is it true that a user cannot see ones own "pending-posts"? I guess this is more a phpBB question.
And is it still open for approval, or is it only the latest post for a new user which "exists", so I just have to write it again?

Until at least one is approved, all posts you make will go through the moderation queue, and each post that ends up there needs to be separately approved.

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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 5:42 am 
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Looks like the spam really started heating up yesterday. A spammer responded to a thread from 2002 #-o . Plus, there are so many new accounts created. How come the spam accounts aren't deleted?

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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 5:50 am 
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nexos wrote:
Looks like the spam really started heating up yesterday. A spammer responded to a thread from 2002 #-o . Plus, there are so many new accounts created. How come the spam accounts aren't deleted?

All new accounts must have a post accepted by the moderation queue before they can post without going through it, and we ban anything that post spam or suspicious content in the moderation queue. If you believe there is a problematic account or post, please be sure to report it. We can not delete accounts, but we do make efforts to ban any lingering spambots from before the moderation queue was enabled.

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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 6:11 am 
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Ok have you noticed that bot called Majestic-12 that comes online? Is that the spambot? Also, aren't these spam accounts taking up a lot of space on Chase's server?

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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
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Majestic-12 is a web crawler. There is no such user by that name. The “bots” you see listed in the online members list are all web crawlers detected by their user agents and not actual members.

As for banned accounts from spambots, they take up a negligible amount of space and we remove their posts. We can’t do anything more than that.

I can not find the post you were referring to previously.

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 Post subject: Re: Suggestion on the recent spam issue
PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 10:32 am 
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@klange, why are there so many spam threads? How come they haven't been deleted?

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