Has anyone seen the spam on the General Education board? Pages and pages.

[Alessandra]

I reported one, but would be up all night if I tried to report all of spam posts.

 

I hope it can be fixed before it gets worse.

[Tanaqui]

Golly, no! I have no idea what on earth you're talking about! My GE board has some ham, and some bacon, and a bit of tofurkey for some reason, but certainly no :spam:!

[abba12]

100 at last count, they're still actively being posted

[idnib]

I reported 3 posts just to make whoever comes early in the morning aware. Hopefully their admin tools allow them to delete everything easily.

[abba12]

Yeah, no need to report, a report doesn't need to be made in order for the admin to take action

 

180 and counting :D apparently I'm bored

[abba12]

Oh, they're in introductions and test posting too, with about another 40 

 

 

[Aiden]

This spam has been showing up on the Sonlight forums, too, ever since they went free. It was pages and pages at first, and then nothing for a few days, and then pages again. They finally stopped accepting new registrations during non-business hours, presumably in an attempt to catch and ban these spammers early.

 

I wish they hadn't found the WTM boards. Hopefully the moderators will be able to block them and prevent the spammers from re-registering.

[Lang Syne Boardie]

You don't have to make a post saying you reported, when you do report. That's just to let other boardies know that it's been reported so they don't have to do it, too, giving the mods more pms to read. No need to bump the thread.

[Robin M]

Ah, just came online and reported three. The mods will have fun in the morning.

[HiddenJewel]

I'm getting a threat detected warning when I am reading this thread. Wonder if they imbedded something in the spam posts.

[abba12]

Approx 320 across 3 boards so far. I'm impressed. Also, mods need better anti-spamware, seriously. 

[Kiara.I]

What I want to know is...does spamming WORK?

Do they get business, or views, or whatever it is they want?

 

That level of spam just produces irritation in me, I don't go click on it to see what it is--especially, in this case, since I can't read the writing!

 

So...why do spammers spam?  Especially in a language that does not match that of the rest of a board?   :confused1:

[The Princess and the Jedi]

What I want to know is...does spamming WORK?

Do they get business, or views, or whatever it is they want?

 

That level of spam just produces irritation in me, I don't go click on it to see what it is--especially, in this case, since I can't read the writing!

 

So...why do spammers spam?  Especially in a language that does not match that of the rest of a board?   :confused1:

Seriously, Sleepless in CA wants to chat, but 6 pages of spam is too much to sludge through.

 

There's got to be a way to limit this.

 

I have an answer to a post, but I can't find it!!! :cursing:

[lailasmum]

It's more like an attack to make the boards unusable than the normal spam.

[Susan Wise Bauer]

We actually do have really good anti-spam software, but there's not much we can do to block real people who sit up all night somewhere in Kazakhstan and post over and over again. Don't ask me why they do it. I can't imagine that anyone ever clicks.

 

If you report one post by a spammer, we can ban and block the spammer, which removes all of their posts at the same time. Don't report every post. Only thing more depressing than seeing 180 spam posts first thing in the morning is seeing 180 individual posts reported. :0

 

SWB 

[abba12]

Only thing more depressing than seeing 180 spam posts first thing in the morning is seeing 180 individual posts reported. :0

 

That mental image made me giggle, thank you :P

[Amira]

Honestly, there are some parts of Kazakhstan where there really isn't anything more exciting to do.

[Junie]

We actually do have really good anti-spam software, but there's not much we can do to block real people who sit up all night somewhere in Kazakhstan and post over and over again. Don't ask me why they do it. I can't imagine that anyone ever clicks.

 

If you report one post by a spammer, we can ban and block the spammer, which removes all of their posts at the same time. Don't report every post. Only thing more depressing than seeing 180 spam posts first thing in the morning is seeing 180 individual posts reported. :0

 

SWB 

 

When I read the bolded section, I immediately heard (in my head) dd5's little voice yelling, "I do!"  

 

At dinner recently, I was trying to move uneaten food from one child's plate to another.  (One didn't like it; the other was still hungry.)  Dd9 (grumpily) said, "I don't eat food off of other people's plates."  And without missing a beat, dd5 cheerfully responded, "I do!"   :laugh:

 

FTR, dd9 has reason to be cautious.  One of my dc once tried to give away chicken nuggets that she had licked.   :ack2:

[trulycrabby]

Kazakhstan + drunk = 180 spam posts

[BigMamaBird]

I've been noticing a bunch of junk posts on the Well Trained Mind Facebook page too.  Someone on there is very excited about their Ray Ban sunglasses this morning.   :glare:

[happypamama]

I've been noticing a bunch of junk posts on the Well Trained Mind Facebook page too. Someone on there is very excited about their Ray Ban sunglasses this morning. :glare:

RayBan sunglasses beat the other spam posts from last night by about a billion.

[idnib]

Someone on there is very excited about their Ray Ban sunglasses this morning.   :glare:

 

Maybe their future's so bright they gotta...never mind.

[Scarlett]

Does this board have the requirement to be approved before posting?  SWB, if not, would that help?  

 

I am a moderator on another board and we routinely reject spammers who try to register.

[swimmermom3]

I could be wrong, but I'm thinking there's no need to report all of these, or at least not more than one. There's no way the moderators are going to miss them, kwim? I can't fathom what the spammers hope to gain from these posts.

 

A while back, I was getting a notice from Malwarebytes that there was a problem when I opened up TWTM page. Ds did some weird voodoo and came up with a Chinese guy with something like 1400 websites. Ds said  "Oh a spammer and it's all about the hits!"

 

Does that make any sense?

 

This guy seems to love TWTM. :tongue_smilie:

 

[kiwik]

Some boards audit the first few posts. But I am not sure if that stops posting 50 at once and getting the 48 through without the first two being approved. There does seem to be minimal spam on those boards though so maybe all posts are held until the first two are checked.

 

It can surely only be for the fun of it though as the NZ gifted forum had heaps of postings advertising fake passports and licences which seemed unlikely to be required by anyone there.

[JulieA97]

I am on another board and we run every registration IP address through stopforumspam.com. If there are reports of spam activity with that IP address we ban them and don't let them on at all. Maybe they just haven't found us yet but we haven't had an issue like that with spam. Would something like that be a possibilty?

[luuknam]

Honestly, there are some parts of Kazakhstan where there really isn't anything more exciting to do.

 

But in order to spam they need to have internet access, yes? And if you have the internet, there are more exciting things than to spam, right?

[Ellie]

I reported one, but would be up all night if I tried to report all of spam posts.

 

I hope it can be fixed before it gets worse.

 

When you report spam posted by one person, all of that person's spam posts are removed, so you don't have to report each and every one.

 

What I don't understand is why there are so many views on those messages. Can y'all not *tell* that they are spam?? and doesn't everyone know that if you report spam, you're supposed to reply with "reported" so we know that it's been reported???

[73349]

When you report spam posted by one person, all of that person's spam posts are removed, so you don't have to report each and every one.

 

What I don't understand is why there are so many views on those messages. Can y'all not *tell* that they are spam?? and doesn't everyone know that if you report spam, you're supposed to reply with "reported" so we know that it's been reported???

 

A spammer could be viewing his own post over again to make it look like other people are interested in hopes of getting more clicks.

[El...]

I agree that spammers may be checking their own posts.  Also, perhaps on some computers, hive members don't have the "preview" funtion and have to actually click stuff to see what it is. 

 

What a weird, weird world.

[El...]

I agree that spammers may be checking their own posts.  Also, perhaps on some computers, hive members don't have the "preview" funtion and have to actually click stuff to see what it is. 

 

What a weird, weird world.

[Alessandra]

When you report spam posted by one person, all of that person's spam posts are removed, so you don't have to report each and every one.

 

What I don't understand is why there are so many views on those messages. Can y'all not *tell* that they are spam?? and doesn't everyone know that if you report spam, you're supposed to reply with "reported" so we know that it's been reported???

Actually, I thought the reported might pop up automatically.

 

Just call me a forum klutz.

[kiwik]

You can't really tell on a mobile phone unless it has an obvious title or name.