You Know What I Really Dislike!!!!

Discussion in 'Admin Talk Support & Feedback' started by rosebud, Jun 21, 2006.

  1. rosebud

    rosebud Regular Member

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    Why is it when people register to a site that is as friendly as this one, why do they insist on spamming. Don't they realized that their posted will be locked up?

    Isn't there anyway that you can take these spamming threads and put them like in a bone yard for you moderators only to see? I think it is just a waste of space and there posts should be thrown away.
     
  2. Diesel

    Diesel Regular Member

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    It's the same reason that spammers send email to everyone.

    It costs them nothing to do, and if only one person out of a million follows their links, it makes them money. For a forum, the only real way to avoid this is to come up with registration processes that would make it a particularly painful process for legitimate users to go through, which would chase away a lot of people from registering.

    The good news is that, most times, we're able to catch the spam messages before most people notice. Usually, we just ban the accounts, but in problematic cases like this most recent batch, we have to resort to banning IP addresses. Sometimes it's a single address, sometimes it's an entire range of IPs. In most cases, a person doesn't have the option of getting a different IP range from their ISP, so it puts them into a position where they either give up on trying to continue to spam us, or they have to go and get a different ISP.

    For 99.9% of the spammers out there, once it starts to becoming inconvenient or time-consuming for them, they'll stop because it's counter-productive, and no longer "free".

    Realize that these people *never* have the intention of doing anything but spamming the site. This case saw no less than 15 accounts involved, all likely the same 1-3 people.

    As far as the bone yard idea, we do a periodic cleanup of locked threads. It'll be cleared up in time, but it'll gradually drift out of sight anyway, since there's no activity on the thread.

    PS - This is really better suited to Soup Station, since it deals with site issues... moving there.
     
  3. shadows

    shadows Regular Member

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    People can be so disrespectful and... well, dumb. Rather than knowing their spam is going to be closed and cleared up, they hold onto the chance that people might actually follow their pointless links or whatever it is they're posting.
     
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