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Scott
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 Topic: The Great Spam Cleanup Posted: 06 Sept 2013 at 2:26pm |
We are now in day 2 of the great spam cleanup. I've been focusing mostly on the Caribbean Room so far, and banning users.
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Scott
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 Posted: 06 Sept 2013 at 4:14pm |
Okay, I made a huge dent in the spam in the Caribbean Room. The latest real topics are now on the top of the list. More cleaning to do, but at least the spam is not at the top of the list anymore.
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Scott
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 Posted: 06 Sept 2013 at 11:19pm |
Okay, got the first page of the Caribbean Room cleaned up. Now heading to the Pirate Room.
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Scott
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 Posted: 07 Sept 2013 at 2:44am |
Now I made a huge dent in the Pirate Room. The top 2/3 of the first page are now real posts. It's almost 3 in the morning, so I probably should get some sleep.
I'll attack more this weekend. Night.
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Scott
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 Posted: 07 Sept 2013 at 12:45pm |
I think I got all of the spam on the first page of The Pirate Room now. And deleted some new spam and banned the users who posted it. Moving on to the next forum.
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Scott
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 Posted: 07 Sept 2013 at 8:34pm |
I made a dent in the Caribbean Recipes forum area, but there is still a lot to delete. We are going to be upgrading to a new version of the forums, and that has much much much better spam fighting tools, both for removing spam that already is on the forums, and preventing spam in the first place. Upgrading the forums is a major process, so I am going to have to schedule time for that, and it will result in some downtime for the site.
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Rogerka
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 Posted: 08 Sept 2013 at 4:00pm |
good job, Scottie
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Peace out
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Scott
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 Posted: 08 Sept 2013 at 4:22pm |
Thanks! So much more to go though. But we will get this cleaned up.
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Scott
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 Posted: 09 Sept 2013 at 3:10pm |
Just spent the last hour or so cleaning up new spam just from today. All from China IPs. Not sure if they have a Chinese botnet going, or if they are posting directly from China, but every single IP is from China.
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Scott
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 Posted: 10 Sept 2013 at 11:00am |
Spammers decided to hit us with a ton of spam overnight. So I spent the last hour or so cleaning up again. I wonder if they are trying to discourage me.
I turned on topic moderation for new users and certain forums to discourage them from creating new accounts and posting. Their posts simply won't show up to the public, because a moderator has to approve it first.
Hopefully that should help. New controls are coming that would help even more.
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