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Spam attack!

AgentZero

AgentZero

Through that door, is a seperate reality.
So I have noticed there are a lot of spammers on here past couple days, any idea how long this will be going on?
 
It isn't as easy as IP Banning the spammers. They're bots, they change proxies every second. They create new accounts as fast as you can ban them. It's probably unstoppable for now. The only possible solution would be disallowing all bots, which would therefore decrease site traffic and pretty much collapse everything. We just have to deal with it for a while.
 
No one knows for how long it will be going on. It came like a flash flood and it will hopefully not last long.

I want to thank everyone for ignoring the spam threads, that makes it easier for the staff to deal with it. As LFF explained earlier, it is more work for us to deal with reports because each report is a process that takes a few steps. And it only takes us two clicks to ban a spammer and erase all his user tracks here once we are inside the thread.

But if you see spam that we have missed and is left behind after we have cleaned up - probably in one of the less busy forums - then by all means please report it. (And always report spam on profile pages or PM spam.)

Everyone in the staff team works hard to keep the place clean and I thank you for being patient. I alone have disabled around 300 spam accounts over the last two days and I have spent nearly all my time on it. The single worst spambot I detected, have created 25 accounts here so far and it keeps coming back. And I keep banning it, usually before it spams. (I'm waiting for Steve to ban its IP, but I know Steve is working as hard as he can, all the sites in the network is having the same problem.) The most labor-intensive work is to identify spam accounts before they spam - we have to be sure it's not a false positive so it takes some work. But I have no life so...

Reminder: Never click links in spam.
 
Romero said:
No one knows for how long it will be going on. It came like a flash flood and it will hopefully not last long.

I want to thank everyone for ignoring the spam threads, that makes it easier for the staff to deal with it. As LFF explained earlier, it is more work for us to deal with reports because each report is a process that takes a few steps. And it only takes us two clicks to ban a spammer and erase all his user tracks here once we are inside the thread.

But if you see spam that we have missed and is left behind after we have cleaned up - probably in one of the less busy forums - then by all means please report it. (And always report spam on profile pages or PM spam.)

Everyone in the staff team works hard to keep the place clean and I thank you for being patient. I alone have disabled around 300 spam accounts over the last two days and I have spent nearly all my time on it. The single worst spambot I detected, have created 25 accounts here so far and it keeps coming back. And I keep banning it, usually before it spams. (I'm waiting for Steve to ban its IP, but I know Steve is working as hard as he can, all the sites in the network is having the same problem.) The most labor-intensive work is to identify spam accounts before they spam - we have to be sure it's not a false positive so it takes some work. But I have no life so...

Reminder: Never click links in spam.
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All right cool... I thought Meg was bad:D
 
Steve's been doing what he can but like others have said, it's a bit of an onslaught and we may just have to ride it out for a bit.

Baby's been pretty sick today so we're not about too much right now - however, we have two excellent moderators who you may have met and they are doing a fabulous job keeping everything in check, so thank you to you both.
 
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