DO NOT BUMP SPAM

[p1ngpong]

As many regular visitors of the site know we are forever waging a war against spam bots here. We are generally quick to exterminate them and their threads thanks to quick reporting by our members and vigilance by the moderating team and I would like to thank everyone who takes the time to bring spambots to our attention.

However tonight something happened that genuinely made me both angry and disappointed at the same time and also made me question the common sense of some of our most prolific and well known members.

A porn spambot made a thread on the forum with graphic images and links in its opening post. People proceeded to post in this thread not once or twice, but nine times.

So this thread was bumped to the top of the latest discussion tab and given more views nine times with idiotic posts ranging from the usual "reported" to people just thinking they are funny.

Let me make it clear:

DO NOT BUMP OBVIOUS SPAM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS PORNOGRAPHIC!

Just report it!

Thanks.

I am going to take a few hours out to calm down before I take any action if any on the people who bumped that last thread, my immediate reaction being to suspend you all for your stupidity.

 

[p1ngpong]

Catching spambots during registration is preventative, but isn't always robust and there's only so much staff can do at one time - So it might be worth looking at alternate reactive measures. Why not implement vote-based thread locking/hiding?

After a report threshold is met, if nobody has been able to manually action, a thread is locked (preventing bumping/potentially this could instead be changing the visibility of the thread?). When manually reviewed, the thread is exempted from further automatic actions.

XF API iirc supports this, and I'd wager an extension already exists along these lines.

Also, I have found that on a DNSBL perspective, the combination of Spamhaus XBL and DroneBL are significantly better at catching bots with a lower false positive rate than StopForumSpam.
Spamhaus Zen is even better, but is rife with false positives.

The issue isn't pressing enough to implement such a system. We have the odd spambot here and there posting gibberish but they are dealt with reasonably quickly, if they exist for a few minutes before a mod notices them it doesn't really put the site in jeopardy. If we did have such a system then it would only work if nobody outside the staff knew about its existence because if it was abused it could be more damaging than the problem it was originally implemented to solve.

 

[Seriel]

@KunoichiZ @jerzmob @dpad_5678 @Iamapirate @DKB

Read the first post kthxbai

 

[dpad_5678]

@KunoichiZ @jerzmob @dpad_5678 @Iamapirate @DKB

I was forgetting about that. I was chatting in an EoF thread for so long I forgot. Chill.

 

[Iamapirate]

You're not a moderator mother yaar.

 

[Seriel]

I was forgetting about that. I was chatting in an EoF thread for so long I forgot. Chill.

Well than in that case it's just a friendly reminder.

You're not a moderator mother yaar.

I'm not a moderator no, but I fail to see how that's relevant here.

 

[Iamapirate]

Nobody likes a mini-mod. :CC

 

[Seriel]

Nobody likes a mini-mod. :CC

There's a fine line between mini-modding and giving people a friendly reminder of the rules.

 

[GalladeGuy]

KillerKeeeeemstar or whatever his name is is posting links to meatspin. Don't click on his posts if he hasn't been deleted yet.

 

[Deleted User]

Very angry at the people bumping the "Install Freeshop on 11.2" thread.

 

[gnmmarechal]

Very angry at the people bumping the "Install Freeshop on 11.2" thread.

OMG HOW I GET FREE GAMZ ON THE 3DS I CAN PROGRAM BATCH FILES TO VERY HAXZ I HAZ 11.2 BECAUZ STABILITY AND GUD /s

 

[Deleted User]

OMG HOW I GET FREE GAMZ ON THE 3DS I CAN PROGRAM BATCH FILES TO VERY HAXZ I HAZ 11.2 BECAUZ STABILITY AND GUD /s

That's not even what the thread was.

 

[xtheman]

OMG HOW I GET FREE GAMZ ON THE 3DS I CAN PROGRAM BATCH FILES TO VERY HAXZ I HAZ 11.2 BECAUZ STABILITY AND GUD /s

The thread had gore and hentai. Not that kind of spam

 

[gnmmarechal]

The thread had gore and hentai. Not that kind of spam

wut u talking about O.o now I'm curious

 

[Deleted User]

wut u talking about O.o now I'm curious

It was a picture of some guy with his brains spilling all over the ground, it was posted here last year around this time too.

 

[MTSoph14]

wut u talking about O.o now I'm curious

OP there posted gore

 

[Tenshi_Okami]

wut u talking about O.o now I'm curious

Its on the tutorial part of the front page of GBAtemp, its named "Install Freeshop on 11.2"

 

[gnmmarechal]

It was a picture of some guy with his brains spilling all over the ground, it was posted here last year around this time too.

O.o that's... disturbing.

 

[Deleted User]

Someone bumped it again.

 

[xtheman]

wut u talking about O.o now I'm curious

Freeshop on 11.2 3ds tutorials. view at your own risk

 

[Blue]

And he is using VPN and proxies. With access to the shoutbox with an alt account.