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Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:21 am
by BlueCrush
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:10 am
by tpollauf
You ain't a kidding
We never had this problem on the old forum platform. Hope it doesn't become a regular thing here.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:03 am
by BlueCrush
And the fun is continuing...
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:09 am
by beemerphile1
Don't ya wish you were a moderator some days. POOF! YOU'RE GONE!
Seems our moderator is at work earning a living or something.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:10 am
by A Psycho Martyr
dude, good lord!
I guess the spammers are gearing up for black friday, huh?
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:46 am
by BlueCrush
The even spammed this thread!!! HAHAHA!!!
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:06 pm
by thebarber
lol @ irony
*goes and buys a watch online*
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:26 pm
by millster
Due to the sheer number of spammers, it took me a while to get them rounded up but I have and have proceeded with cleaning up the threads they spammed. I'm going solo at the moment so it's taking a while but either I'll hopefully be joined with some help soon or I'll get through it eventually.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:29 pm
by SeattleJeremy
Maybe some more moderators are in order?
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:36 pm
by beemerphile1
millster wrote:...it's taking a while but either I'll hopefully be joined with some help soon or I'll get through it eventually.
Thank you for taking care of it.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:38 pm
by A Psycho Martyr
They froze new member registration over on MO.
I suppose that's one temporary way of handling it
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:45 pm
by millster
That would be my suggestion at this point. Either freeze it or moderate it. The only other fully effective option is moderating posts but I really don't want to go down that route.
Unfortunately, I can't implement either option so I'll see if I can get a hold of Mike over the weekend and get something worked out. Thankfully I needed the brain-break today but I also had work to be getting done.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:27 pm
by SeattleJeremy
Stuff is still coming.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:39 pm
by millster
Indeed it is and it will probably continue to. They're registering about as fast as I can remove them. I'll try to keep a close eye on things and make sure it doesn't get too bad.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 4:07 pm
by SeattleJeremy
Out of habit I've been making spam reports.
Does that help you on days like today? If not I can cut it out
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 4:25 pm
by millster
By all means please keep making the reports. It helped on a couple of posts today that might have been overlooked if not for the red highlighting the report tags them with. It also gives me a report I can look at to make sure I got everything removed that a member has noticed. It certainly doesn't make things harder or clutter anything up, if that's your concern.
Thanks for all your help today and thanks for your patience! I'll get a hold of Mike and see what we can do to get this resolved.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 5:15 pm
by SeattleJeremy
millster wrote:By all means please keep making the reports. It helped on a couple of posts today that might have been overlooked if not for the red highlighting the report tags them with. It also gives me a report I can look at to make sure I got everything removed that a member has noticed. It certainly doesn't make things harder or clutter anything up, if that's your concern.
Thanks for all your help today and thanks for your patience! I'll get a hold of Mike and see what we can do to get this resolved.
Yes, that was my concern. Thanks again for all your help!
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 5:36 pm
by millster
I bring good news! I was able to reach Mike very quickly by email and he made a change to the registration process which should at least slow our attackers down significantly.
So once again, a HUGE thank you to MKowdley, our ever-helpful admin for not only keeping this site running for so many years but also for saving us from the evil spam hoard!
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:00 pm
by Roxtar
A Psycho Martyr wrote:They froze new member registration over on MO.
I suppose that's one temporary way of handling it
I'm hoping to have registration turned back on soon. it would figure that this massive wave of spam would come along when I'm getting slammed with work at my full-time job, so i can't focus on writing a solution to the spam issue.
I've been manually approving all new members for the past 6+ months. When it's 20-30 per day, it's not a big deal... 200 is another matter unless I can automate it some.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:38 pm
by vibenvy
SeattleJeremy wrote:Maybe some more moderators are in order?
I agree.
I am more than willing to become a moderator as I typically check in here
at least once a day...
I just reported a spam post. It is re-assuring to hear that reporting does not cause any further workload or anything for the mods. I will definitely continue to keep an eye out and report anything suspicious I see.
Huge thanks to
millster,
mkowdley and the rest of the mods for continuing to do an awesome job for us
!
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:10 pm
by Salsa Guy
Yea MO has been hit hard I guess. It's been down the last 2 nights.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:36 pm
by KITT222
vibenvy wrote:SeattleJeremy wrote:Maybe some more moderators are in order?
I agree.
I am more than willing to become a moderator as I typically check in here
at least once a day...
I just reported a spam post. It is re-assuring to hear that reporting does not cause any further workload or anything for the mods. I will definitely continue to keep an eye out and report anything suspicious I see.
Huge thanks to
millister,
mkowdley and the rest of the mods for continuing to do an awesome job for us
!
I'll throw my hat into the ring as a potential moderator as well.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 4:10 am
by 808 Vibes
They're baaaaaaack....
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 5:15 am
by millster
808 Vibes wrote:They're baaaaaaack....
...but they didn't last long. Still just weeding out the last of the ones who registered on the 16th, thankfully. No new registrations except legit members.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:11 am
by star_deceiver
KITT222 wrote:vibenvy wrote:SeattleJeremy wrote:Maybe some more moderators are in order?
I agree.
I am more than willing to become a moderator as I typically check in here
at least once a day...
I just reported a spam post. It is re-assuring to hear that reporting does not cause any further workload or anything for the mods. I will definitely continue to keep an eye out and report anything suspicious I see.
Huge thanks to
millister,
mkowdley and the rest of the mods for continuing to do an awesome job for us
!
I'll throw my hat into the ring as a potential moderator as well.
Another volunteer here as well. I'm on here most everyday as well!
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 12:55 pm
by joatmon
I say keep the spammers coming. I'm saving up all the bounty I've collected from reporting spammers that I'll soon be able to retire and live off my vast wealth of genvibe dollars.
Edit - oh wait, just found the currency exchange calculator to convert genvibe dollars to US dollars. Nevermind, guess I'll be around for a while
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 7:34 pm
by SeattleJeremy
The gall.
They are currently spamming us with an ad saying we can spam other people. F-ing ridiculous.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 8:25 pm
by star_deceiver
Cleanup in aisle 4..... bring the big mop!
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:04 pm
by jake75
"The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!"
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 11:58 am
by NSimkins
I see millster removed most of them, I found one remaining post, looks OK now.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:47 pm
by ArcsVibe
Got rid of a few today. All under control
boss!
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 6:23 pm
by vibenvy
THEY'RE BAAAAAAAAAAAACK!
2 in Off Topic, 1 in Engine & Transmission and 1 in Tech Info & Do-It-Yourself Info
.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:35 pm
by ArcsVibe
Working on it
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:25 pm
by vibenvy
ArcsVibe wrote:Working on it
A huge thank you once again to you and all the other mods for cleaning up the spam and keeping GenVibe running smoothly for us all to enjoy
!
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:32 am
by vibenvy
Looks like
sells101 was busy early this morning
...
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:15 am
by ColonelPanic
vibenvy wrote:Looks like
sells101 was busy early this morning
...
I was busy this morning myself, reporting that crap...
Cleanup on aisle whatever..
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 3:19 pm
by vibenvy
ColonelPanic wrote:I was busy this morning myself, reporting that (removed)...
Cleanup on aisle whatever..
Thanks for reporting the posts CP! I always click on "Report This Post" just to make sure and I was happy to see that they had all been reported already. Keep up the good work mods and GenVibers
!
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 5:05 am
by Doug14
Spammers back again in "The Vibe Lounge".
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 5:18 am
by NSimkins
Doug14 wrote:Spammers back again in "The Vibe Lounge".
Looks like we're good to go, thanks for reporting.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 1:54 pm
by 808 Vibes
Yowza...they've been busy in the off topic section!
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:07 pm
by NSimkins
Thanks, they're gone, appreciate the reports!
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 8:48 pm
by 808 Vibes
Thanks for cleaning house!
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 1:22 am
by 808 Vibes
Off topi¢®©™ s€¢tioπ π€€ds a good sw€€¶iπg.
(Gotta £o√e smart¶hon€ symbo£s!)
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:48 am
by NSimkins
808 Vibes wrote:Off topi¢®©™ s€¢tioπ π€€ds a good sw€€¶iπg.
(Gotta £o√e smart¶hon€ symbo£s!)
Thanks
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:52 am
by 808 Vibes
Would adding a Captcha feature to the registration/post process eliminate the spam?
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:07 am
by NSimkins
808 Vibes wrote:Would adding a Captcha feature to the registration/post process eliminate the spam?
I just cleaned them up, I was out for a couple days, thanks for reporting.
I know there is a registration confirmation section (asks a question a human can only answer) but I think the problem is that the spam is coming from actual humans (!!), not spambots. I will look to see if there is a way to turn on Captcha... Thanks.
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 10:32 pm
by 808 Vibes
Maybe they're the same phonies that are on craigslost
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 6:38 pm
by ArcsVibe
Cleaned up a few more this evening! Thank you for (still) making this one of the best forums ever
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:22 pm
by 808 Vibes
We try. You know how territorial we are, especially us females LOL
Re: Spammers Gone Wild
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 12:04 am
by 808 Vibes
And apparently, I'm always on the same time as the foreign spammer scums.
