Some may have noticed that there has been a bit of spam issue on this forum lately. Spammers are now registering accounts to post one or two messages with links to their sites. I'm deleting about 5 of these accounts per day. Essentially they are not really trying to drive traffic to their site directly, but get their links to be visible on a highly ranked site (ie. this one) so that Google gives them a better listing. Paradoxically this does the spammers no good here because I have set this forum as "no follow" in Google so it does not spider external links here and completely ignores them!
There are various solutions to this but honestly I don't see it as a big problem yet so I'll just go on deleting the one or two posts daily and clear the spammer accounts. If it begins to be a problem, then I'll just set new members to approval mode so that I must flip a switch before they can post.
It goes without saying, but PLEASE do NOT READ any spam posts and DO NOT click on any links. They track clicks to their links so if they find people from this forum are visiting their site they will POST MORE SPAM.
quote:It goes without saying, but PLEASE do NOT READ any spam posts and DO NOT click on any links.
Sure thing.
I'm sure you've got a creative mind and probbably have already figured this out.
Introduce a kind of AI the reads the posts and locates characteristics of spam posts and notifies you so that it's alot easier to delete the spam. I can only see this website get more popular, and more spam comming in. Since you've got a beast of a server now, why not introduce a script that will make your life a bit easier.
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
Actually I think I have a solution for the spam that's going to prevent these spambots from registering. I've already set it up on a test forum (on the new server) and it works well. So when I switch servers it will become active.
About The Spam
Posted - Dec 03 2006 : 10:56:23 AM
