Attention mods: there are some spammers among us

[Keith A]

Originally Posted by AngryScientist

thanks, another perma-ban.

keith is in the process of removing the privilege to edit posts for new members until they achieve some post count, which should close this new spammer loophole. what a pita.

I have turned off the ability for new users to edit their posts. They have to hit the 30/30 mark before their account is upgraded. However, this won't stop them from joining and making random posts to old threads. Because of the way they are operating, they aren't being flagged as forum spammers and so they can get away with creating accounts on many forums. So the tools I use won't catch them at registration time...and they know this.

[fiamme red]

Here's another spammer, enerlin: https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...47#post2885147. This time the spam link is in the original post.

[jkbrwn]

Originally Posted by Keith A

I have turned off the ability for new users to edit their posts. They have to hit the 30/30 mark before their account is upgraded. However, this won't stop them from joining and making random posts to old threads. Because of the way they are operating, they aren't being flagged as forum spammers and so they can get away with creating accounts on many forums. So the tools I use won't catch them at registration time...and they know this.

Still, makes it a lot more work for them. Nice work.

[Keith A]

Originally Posted by fiamme red

Here's another spammer, enerlin: https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...47#post2885147. This time the spam link is in the original post.

Thanks for the report...he's gone now.

[setherino]

but, I really needed new poker chips. Also, I'm tired of US Casinos. I think a Malaysian Casino is probably what I want.... if I only had a line on one...

[fiamme red]

Another spammer, N_Bates: https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...59#post2889859.

[AngryScientist]

thanks. banned.

[sokyroadie]

Possibly another one, but older join date, bumped 14+ older threads in the custom bike section -"anyopenpcbikes"

[Bruce K]

Thanks, we’re watching him.

More likely they have something they want to sell after all this time...

BK

[rain dogs]

Beware of user laager - 5 posts (join date 03-15-2013?)

He DM'd me about an item I actually had forgotten I posted here for sale like 7 years ago (which I still happen to have). I told him that since then I have since moved to Spain and that with him only having 5 posts and I cannot see any history/feedback from him the transaction may be more complicated than he would want....I would need to make sure everything was insured and payments with buyer/seller protection (or post to eBay) etc. In terms of being extra cautious with low-post count users I asked he "forgive and understand my position if you feel badly about it."

AND... the insults started flying! Including a "I'll get one from someone how knows how to sell" and a "Piss off" and a block.

so take that for what you will. Just sharing the recent experience.

[gasman]

Thanks for the info.He’ll be banned.

[fiamme red]

AirForce appears to be another spammer. If new users can still edit their posts, I expect that AirForce will insert spam links in these posts in a few days.

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...72#post2898072

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...06#post2897706

[fiamme red]

Originally Posted by fiamme red

AirForce appears to be another spammer. If new users can still edit their posts, I expect that AirForce will insert spam links in these posts in a few days.

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...72#post2898072

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...06#post2897706

There's now a spam link in this post: https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...72#post2898072.

[AngryScientist]

thanks.

this is getting annoying.

[toby]

Originally Posted by AngryScientist

thanks.

this is getting annoying.

I think the ideal would be a system of creating (silent) alerts for mods when someone does something like the following:

modify two or more posts more than a week old within a single day

It's unlikely someone would do that normally; I can't figure out why at all, but maybe. In any case, there would be very few false positives, and by making it silent (rather than a published restriction) the spammers would have a much harder time learning how to work around it.

Of course that's harder to program, but if possible it would be good for this.