Spam postings

[Nca78]

A bunch of new spam accounts registered and are enjoying what seems to be a weekend away for the moderatos/admins team :)

@Add-Kbb
@王彬
@erwgergsdfcsdf2
@laifeijiu
@kiofnhdfe

[zboblamont]

@Nca78 Ok, only saw the suspiciously high number of postings this morning, and looked at that one user... Bizarre, what do the originators get out of this besides being an irritation...
Some cleaning out to be done by the mods, perhaps time to look at Captcha or similar for new accounts....

[Yveaux]

@Nca78 said in Spam postings:

a weekend away for the moderatos/admins team

Not a whole weekend, just a night :grimacing:
We're working on it

[Nca78]

@Yveaux said in Spam postings:

Not a whole weekend, just a night :grimacing:

Ah those lazy MySensors admins resting a full night instead of tracking the chinese spammers :D

[hek]

Good morning. Accounts deleted.

[Nca78]

So, we're back at it again :(
If necessary I volunteer to be moderator and do some weekend morning cleanup at Vietnamese time which is relatively close to invasion time of those chinese spamming robots...

[zboblamont]

@Nca78 Read your notification before opening on the laptop, 3 real posts out of 99+...
If the problem lies in creation of new accounts, can a secondary intercept not be introduced to validate which a robot cannot circumvent?

[mfalkvidd]

The account are being created by real people, so any captcha-type countermeasurement will unfortunately fail.

Why do we know this? The people behind the accounts get very angry and send us (admins) messages through different channels.

@Nca78 thanks for your offer. Having a human covering another time zone could be very useful. I'll check with the team and get back to you.

[zboblamont]

@mfalkvidd Wow, thanks for that explanation, all quite bizarre then, presumably disruption is their motivation...
Ok on the messages, presumably not wishing Merry Christmas....
What a mad world...

[hek]

Yes, pretty annoying people. I doubt they will sell more of whatever they're selling.

[Nca78]

@hek said in Spam postings:

Yes, pretty annoying people. I doubt they will sell more of whatever they're selling.

Maybe they're just looking for top position in searches when Chinese people look for specific things on saturday/sunday morning, they probably just need to be here a few hours to appear in search engines.

[hek]

I don't know about chineese search engines. But all external links is no-follow. So they shouldn't give them any better ranking.

[mfalkvidd]

There are no links in the posts. They sell forged university diplomas through WeChat. So all they need is for people to read the WeChat number. Nofollow doesn't matter.

[dbemowsk]

In the time that I have been a part of the community, this is the worst I have seen this. Special thanks to the moderators for fixing this.

[zboblamont]

@dbemowsk Absolutely...

[mfalkvidd]

@dbemowsk that's because we've been better at keeping them at bay. I think I've seen over thousand spam posts.

[zboblamont]

@mfalkvidd Perhaps concrete ankle bracelets would be better at keeping them at bay, or under it....

[hek]

Looks like we finally have the tools to keep spam out of the forum after upgrade.

This means a little more wait time for new users to get their posts accepted. But I think it's worth it to keep the evil spammers out.