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Re: Spam attack

Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 5:48 pm
by GalakStarscraper
Darkson wrote:
GalakStarscraper wrote:and it looks like it worked as no new spammers since I did it.
Not quite true - I've deleted 3 or 4 spammers.
But all the ones I've seen since I made the changes Darkson had a join date BEFORE I made the new questions wall. I've been checking that. I've had to delete a couple as well since I made the changes but they all had join dates before I made them.

Re: Spam attack

Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 5:52 pm
by Darkson
Last two I deleted (including the one with 38 posts) were all within an hour of signing up. :(

Re: Spam attack

Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 9:34 pm
by lunchmoney
Is it a huge PITA to have accounts admin auth'd? That way you can check and only auth an actual human (or transhuman if one chooses to self identify that way).

Re: Spam attack

Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 10:13 pm
by Steam Ball
I guess I know what you mean with new wall then. Visited register page and saw something I don't remember.

Re: Spam attack

Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 10:31 pm
by Darkson
lunchmoney wrote:Is it a huge PITA to have accounts admin auth'd? That way you can check and only auth an actual human (or transhuman if one chooses to self identify that way).
Depends - some days there are loads of sign-ups and to go through them one-by-one takes to long (not all spammers use obviously fake names).