About Spam Posts: Moderator strikes back

Kambiz · Posted: 17/09/06 13:58 Post subject:

User activation can be done by Administrator, but it's easier for me to remove junk accounts later.

phpBB has no usefull options for filtering spams and spammers. Of course, some new interesting phpBB MODs are under development.

Do not spend time to see profile of the new users. I do it regularly.

Johnny_Bit · Administrator Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Posts: 397

spammer#6:
IP: 81.222.178.17 //ripe says: ip-noc@cwn.ru to send abuse, some russian network
name: BunnyTu2006
Date of post: 19/09/06 02:27 GMT

Where do idiots come from?

Kambiz · Posted: 19/09/06 09:41 Post subject:

Johnny_Bit · Administrator Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Posts: 397

spammer#6:
IP: 213.42.2.11 //ripe says: abuse@emirates.net.ae to send abuse, Emirates Internet
name: Janny2006
Date of post: 15/10/06 20:49 GMT

A girl who actually wants tyo enlarge her breasts.. how rare...

Johnny_Bit · Administrator Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Posts: 397

spammer#8:
IP: 203.144.144.164 //ripe says: nuthin'
name: phentramadol
Date of post: 27/10/06 14:07 GMT

Where do idiots come from?

Johnny_Bit · Administrator Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Posts: 397

spammer#9:
IP: 217.20.215.114 //ripe says: http://ripe.net/whois?form_type=simple&full_query_string=&searchtext=217.20.215.114&do_search=Search
Russian net... we should really do something with that
name: MartinM
Date of post: 27/10/06 20:21 GMT

Johnny_Bit · Administrator Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Posts: 397

Hellow! A word from your friendly mod & sub-admin here. A brand new word censors gone nutty, so probably you'll see some users describling themselves as dumb spammers, so don't despair as it's what they are... In extreme cases you can all come up with new ways of saying bad things.

kokkoras · Posted: 08/11/06 17:27 Post subject:

spammer#10
IP: 84.204.30.234
name: Alco873
text points to http://kors4all.com/nude_beach_photos.html

So, now what? I think there should be a button in the user's page with a button that will enable the moderator to delete the account.

Johnny_Bit · Administrator Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Posts: 397

Nope, the real fun is admins'. but hey, isn't deleting spam fun?

And other thing: links cannot be censored for now, we can use word censor only for message text. But still pisses of spammers Wink

Oh, and you need to post also date of message, it helps with reporting spammers to their ISPs. Also one great address for any moderator dealing with spam: http://ripe.net/whois use it, embrace it. Whenever it's available report spammer to isps' abuse mail. remember, it works (at least here)

kokkoras · Posted: 08/11/06 23:24 Post subject:

I can't quite follow how you inform ISP about the spammer. It's easy to delete a spam in this forum but the other workaround you mentioned sounds time costly. I can hardly find time to sleep these days... Crying or Very sad

edit: ok, I got what you meant. what do you exactly report to the abuse mail?

Johnny_Bit · Administrator Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Posts: 397

kokkoras · Posted: 09/11/06 20:31 Post subject:

Man, it takes at least 10 mins to do that. And the result is questionable because:
1. they usually spam once, then leave (I guess "they" are bots)
2. their ISP doesn't give a s.... about them (in some countries).

I can delete the spam post. Just give me a button to delete their acount with a single click or automaticaly create the report you mentioned (apart from the who_is data).

Johnny_Bit · Administrator Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Posts: 397

kokkoras · Posted: 12/11/06 01:21 Post subject:

spammers

http://forum.delphiarea.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=899
http://forum.delphiarea.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=900
http://forum.delphiarea.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=901

Johnny_Bit · Administrator Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Posts: 397