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GeneralReports of spam attack

23rd May 2018 09:30 UTCErik Vercammen Expert

Yesterday, Mindat suffered from a spam attack. What is the best way to help the administrators in such case: report every single spam message, or just give a more general warning?

23rd May 2018 14:19 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager

Most of the time one or more managers is working to delete the spammer and messages within 15 minutes of the postings. If something persists for more than a few hours, I would report it in the Errors and Mistakes forum.

12th Jul 2018 09:27 UTCDale Foster Manager

Well at 9.25 am today 9 1/2 pages of spam crap!

12th Jul 2018 09:56 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager

Actually there were 700+ spam messages

12th Jul 2018 11:04 UTCKevin Hean

Would it not be possible to limit the number of posts within a certain time limit.

For example. No more than 5 posts per hour..

12th Jul 2018 12:37 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager

Only problem was that there were about 20 new spammer accounts set up.

12th Jul 2018 12:58 UTCWayne Corwin

maybe block all the wierd symbols postings?

and what the heck are all those wierd symbols ?

12th Jul 2018 13:01 UTCKevin Hean

One wonders what type of mind gets pleasure out of doing that

12th Jul 2018 13:12 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager

It appears to be a simplified East Asian character set.

"One wonders what type of mind gets pleasure out of doing that" Its all done for money.

12th Jul 2018 16:35 UTCChristian Auer 🌟 Expert

My auto translater told me it is korean.

12th Jul 2018 18:31 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

Unfortunately the system we use for the message board is old, not very good and not really properly supported any more. We would love to replace it with a modern system that is better supported but that will take a long time.

Until then we will have to try our best to reduce the likelihood of spammers abusing the system by making registration harder and Requiring email validation before activating the account

14th Jul 2018 09:36 UTCAlysson Rowan Expert

Frankly, Jolyon - whatever it takes.

Thanks to the admins for cleaning up the mess.