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The one called "shescrazy8" replied to a thread in Introductions by mashing the keyboard. The post said "Asfagadzsgbag". The timestamp on its spam post is two minutes after that post. That doesn't look like a bot to me.
Looks like I found a common denominator: all the spammers use Windows 10. No, I'm not joking.
Also, Korean text seems to be pretty common. Maybe setting a filter for that would help. Usernames also sometimes follow a "666" theme. delelonagatha999, Victorprincess66@mail.co...
Last edited by Ihatewindows522; 01-21-2016 at 09:20 AM.
One thing I might suggest for the future is using something like Google Translate's API (or an equivalent, since I know there are users here who won't want all their posts being sent to Google) and sending all posts that get detected as being in a language other than English into a moderation queue.
EDIT: I just saw a spam account whose post count (under its username) reads 183. :/
Usually in the past on other forums a controller will post a garbage post or reply to test for a post-flood safety check, and the tune their bots accordingly.
Just do what you can Tobi. Until the offending posts can be moved out, only Sticky topics are going to be more easily accessed.
there is a 'bam' 'war' theme to a lot of the thread titles
there is a 'saga798' theme to a lot of the thread titles
there is a 'UDAISO 03 . CoM' theme to a few of the thread titles
some of the usernames seem to have created ~30 new threads in their first few hours of posting; is there a way of limiting that, at least until they have posted one or two 'worthwhile' posts?
Tobi, I want to thank you for what you have being doing and to express my sympathy for your current plight (and the last thing that I want to do is to distract you from this task, so maybe I owe you an apology for even posting this). I do wonder what the actor(s) behind this kind of attack get from this? It must take them some time and effort to prepare this attack, mustn't it?
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