Spam threads

Foxy

Sorry about the current volume of spam threads, they are being nuked as they are reported and we are banning the affected IP ranges too, keep hitting dat report flag.

/peace

Kouji_San

scifiwriterguy

Kouji_San wrote: »

The Rifftrax joke on the kid saying "I'm doing my part!":

"Good one, General!"

Whole theater cracked up on that one.

EnglishInfidel

scifiwriterguy wrote: »

Rifftrax

+1.

Kouji_San

Rico

Polo?

scifiwriterguy

Saw the Starship Troopers RifftraxLIVE event on its first outing...which ended up being seriously awkward. Especially since one of their jokes was about Jake Busey as Ace.

Mike: Nice smile...
Kevin: ...for a Clydesdale.

And who do I end up running into and talking with the very next morning? Damn but that was a little weird.

EnglishInfidel

Kind of envious in a really geeky way.

NerdyEric

They are being nuked

Amazing admin

Jamezorg

We will fight back.

DarthOmnis

Dang, I hop on real quick and next thing I know *poof* 30 + posts about some s**t.

Casual_Player

@Foxy The spam filter blocked me because I was reporting too fast...

Casual_Player

"The Subnautica Forums Spam Wars of April/2017"

phantomfinch

Never forget

0x6A7232

If you guys have really serious problems, I know HLP had an issue a while back and had to implement some clever anti-spam auto-filters. In case you could use some help, let me know and I'll ask exactly what they implemented etc. (Although, they're on SMF, not Vanilla, so maybe it wouldn't help anyways.)

Kouji_San

I don't quite understand these spambots... I mean... Traditional Chinese on an English speaking forum which has nothing to do with what ever they're trying to sell...

What, is it just "internet presence", surely the way they're doing it is counterproductive in any case...

Skope

Am I the only one who hasn't seen any of these spambot threads?

I see threads like this and I wonder, "What the freak is going on?!"

Maybe I just have bad timing.

DaveyNY

Skope wrote: »

Am I the only one who hasn't seen any of these spambot threads?

I see threads like this and I wonder, "What the freak is going on?!"

Maybe I just have bad timing.

Same here...

I'm like...,

Enderguy059

Kouji_San

Skope wrote: »

Am I the only one who hasn't seen any of these spambot threads?

I see threads like this and I wonder, "What the freak is going on?!"

Maybe I just have bad timing.

https://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussions

This lists all latest threads and posts, spambots dominate that list right now

nesrak1

Block posts that contain anything with University or College

xd

garath

Skope wrote: »

Am I the only one who hasn't seen any of these spambot threads?

I see threads like this and I wonder, "What the freak is going on?!"

Maybe I just have bad timing.

Slacker.

You only see them if you are browsing the forums 24 hours a day--like me.

Slacker.

nesrak1 wrote: »

Block posts that contain anything with University or College

xd

LOL.

mikeloeven

I wonder if the OP realizes that banning IP ranges really does nothing but cause problems down the line when black listed IP's are recycled into the address pool. No spammer would use a static IP

Kyman201

I saw a veritable flood of them last night, but it was like 2-3 AM, PST.

DarthOmnis

They're baaack....

DaveyNY

Welp, now I'm seeing them also.

DarthOmnis

DaveyNY wrote: »

Welp, now I'm seeing them also.

Would be nice to have some sort of ignore feature for each individual user. The moment I start seeing that stuff *poof* never see it again.

Skope

Yeah, I finally saw some too.

It's amazing what you can do when you actually try.

Sennera

Why are we getting Japanese spam advertising fake Canadian diplomas anyway?

DarthOmnis

Sennera wrote: »

Why are we getting Japanese spam advertising fake Canadian diplomas anyway?

*Volume Warning*

Skope

Sennera wrote: »

Why are we getting Japanese spam advertising fake Canadian diplomas anyway?

It's just the bots being bots.

It's best to just ignore it.

DaveyNY

Sennera wrote: »

Why are we getting Japanese spam advertising fake Canadian diplomas anyway?

It's probably something someone cooked up to get around the Trump Era Foreign Invaders Policy...

Shoot first, unless they are Canadian..... then ignore the problem completely.