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forum spam problem

rubberduck
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 04:33
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at the moment there seems to be a huge amount of spam in this forum,

isn't there a way to solve this problem,

maybe filtering common used words like "dollars", "bills" or "sale" is a way to reduce the amount of spam.

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bart
joined 13 years 10 months ago
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 04:54
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The offending account has been deleted.

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rubberduck
joined 11 years 6 months ago
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 00:37
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again, this time 25 topics from one spammer.

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Chris_M_The_Gam...
joined 11 years 9 months ago
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 01:10
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I agree, I reported the korean model spammer shortly after he posted, but there should be a basic filter, not that I would know how to make one for the forum system the site is using.

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bart
joined 13 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 04:25
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So, a couple of things, just so people know what's going on:

  • I have a number of spam countermeasures already in place.  If it weren't for those, the spam would be literally constant.  There would be significantly more spam posts than legitimate ones.
  • We had a spam filter, but it had too many false positives and drove people crazy.  The occasional mass post while the mods are asleep (literally, in this case) is honestly preferable.
  • I can't just filter based on whether someone is posting links, because most of the time people who are posting links are perfectly legitimate.
  • I have a keyword filter in place, but in cases where someone is posting in Korean, I don't know the language and I'm not sure what would be a good keyword to filter on.  It's too late now because I already deleted the posts, but maybe next time I'll ask if there are any Korean speakers who can identify a good keyword to filter on so as to block those particular posts without blocking legitimate posters.

I think the best thing to do will be to limit accounts that are less than a day old to, say, two or three posts an hour, although even that is a pretty major annoyance for legitimate users.

Regular users can help with this.  If enough people flag a post as spam in a certain amount of time, the post will be unpublished automatically.  I don't want to be too specific about how this works, because I don't trolls gaming the system, but definitely flag spam when you see it.

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Chris_M_The_Gam...
joined 11 years 9 months ago
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 15:43
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Yes, sorry, we dont think its too big of a problem but I do think it should be limited to about two forums an hour maximum. That would probably be a good account measure to accounts. I think an account should only have to be a day or even just a few hours old, a lot of new people like to ask questions or post appreciations. 

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Jerom
joined 12 years 3 months ago
Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 09:15
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Lot of spam posts here :

http://opengameart.org/comment/46900#comment-46900

 

I have flagged them since weeks but they aren't deleted..... :C

Current projects = DETHLANDS (4-bit Metal-platformer) + LOKI'S BREED (shmup)

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Redshrike
joined 15 years 9 months ago
Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 11:03
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I don't know if reports reach anywhere I can see.  But I deleted them now.

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mold
joined 11 years 3 months ago
Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 12:06
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How do we report messed up submissions?

 

http://opengameart.org/content/only-hero-0

http://opengameart.org/content/only-hero

preview is file and file is preview

 

http://opengameart.org/content/eternal-daughter-original-soundtrack

license is CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0

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Jerom
joined 12 years 3 months ago
Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 17:35
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thank you!

Current projects = DETHLANDS (4-bit Metal-platformer) + LOKI'S BREED (shmup)

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