Success means... spam!

[Restitutor]

Hi Everyone,

As I'm sure you've noticed, we've been hit with a litany of spam bots over the last 12-ish hours. This is obviously super annoying, and I've been working on the backend to enhance the spam prevention. It seemed to work for about 4 or 5 hours last night so I went to bed, then woke up to more. I've added further enhancements since waking up, but we may be in a little bit of a wack-a-mole as I continue testing things out. Fortunately I'm awake again, so will catch things and clean it up quickly as needed. 

I apologize profusely for this annoyance; I suppose it means our site is now doing well enough that we're popping up in the spammer rosters. So, yay success! Lol 🙂 😅

-Res

[CPK]

We greatly appreciate your efforts in this @Restitutor and as annoying as the bots are to us, I am sure they are even more so to the one having to deal with them. Thank you for continuing to provide a wonderful discussion platform! 👍

[ambr0zie]

Thumbs up for the quick action.

I was wondering, wouldn't it be a good idea to allow registration only after answering some questions/solving a captcha?

Not sure if this is feasible.

[Limes]

Really appreciate your efforts @Restitutor! 

It's not all that annoying. I'm pleased I learned the names of loads of airlines. I feel like I have grown intellectually.  😁

[Prieure de Sion]

In such cases - I'm sorry - my violent fantasies run away with me. I think, if I were a hacker, I would hack into the computer of these idiots, press a button and their computer would start smoking and break...

[ambr0zie]

[Severus Alexander]

Thanks, @Restitutor! Not all fruits of success are sweet, I guess!

One thing I noticed: when I put a spammer on “ignore,” while I couldn’t see their comments, I could still see their topics in the main list. Maybe there’s a setting to change this? Then we could just “ignore” them while we’re waiting for you to tidy up.

Might also be a good idea to have a couple subordinate admins with the power to shut down spammers.

[ambr0zie]

A couple of moderators would be a good idea, @Restitutor (nope, I do not nominate myself)

[Al Kowsky]

6 hours ago, Restitutor said:

Hi Everyone,

As I'm sure you've noticed, we've been hit with a litany of spam bots over the last 12-ish hours. This is obviously super annoying, and I've been working on the backend to enhance the spam prevention. It seemed to work for about 4 or 5 hours last night so I went to bed, then woke up to more. I've added further enhancements since waking up, but we may be in a little bit of a wack-a-mole as I continue testing things out. Fortunately I'm awake again, so will catch things and clean it up quickly as needed. 

I apologize profusely for this annoyance; I suppose it means our site is now doing well enough that we're popping up in the spammer rosters. So, yay success! Lol 🙂 😅

-Res

Thanks for sweeping out the trash ☺️!

[ValiantKnight]

I hear there’s a certain other coin forum that is in need of airline information 😈

[Qcumbor]

3 hours ago, ValiantKnight said:

I hear there’s a certain other coin forum that is in need of airline information 😈

Oh, that's naughty !

😀 Q

[Restitutor]

18 hours ago, ValiantKnight said:

I hear there’s a certain other coin forum that is in need of airline information 😈

Lol. I wouldn’t wish this headache on my worst enemy! Fortunately I think The Great Spammer War is over… 

🤣

[Restitutor]

20 hours ago, Severus Alexander said:

Thanks, @Restitutor! Not all fruits of success are sweet, I guess!

One thing I noticed: when I put a spammer on “ignore,” while I couldn’t see their comments, I could still see their topics in the main list. Maybe there’s a setting to change this? Then we could just “ignore” them while we’re waiting for you to tidy up.

Might also be a good idea to have a couple subordinate admins with the power to shut down spammers.

Thanks for the heads up Sev! I’ll look into this. 

[AETHER]

I bought airline tickets as they suggested, was I mislead?