Reporting spam

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 8:21 pm

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They're still coming!

bubukan
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19418

Lots of dodgy profiles via google and a fair few hits on SFS.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 8:54 pm

I’m not going to respond to subjective and policy aspects of this post just yet, but I want to clarify some technical points.

Smivs wrote:
The situation began with Ahruman accidently giving moderator access to all the Spam Assassins when he intended to give this power only to the Master Assassins.
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During the few hours I had moderator access, I detected two spammers who were attempting to post spam on the forum. One was extolling the virtues of a brand of headphones and the other was 'selling' Louis Vuitton handbags. I could have deleted both of these but chose not to act until the situation regarding our access was clarified.

For the record, the only permission involved was “Can approve posts”. Assuming the permissions are correctly labelled, Master Assassins can’t delete individual posts, and that should apply to the moderation queue too (even if the UI gives the impression that you could).

Smivs wrote:
The second post had several links within it to the spammer's website. This kind of spam is insidious. The way it works is that the search engines (Google etc) have 'spiders' which crawl the web looking for links. In simple terms the more links to a site that these spiders find, the higher that site goes up the search results. So if one of these spammy posts is sitting on the BB server waiting for approval when the spider visits, those links will be noted and the spammer's website will marginally improve its ranking on the search engine.

Posts in the queue are invisible to non-moderators, including bots. Links in queued posts won’t be indexed. (Links in profiles will, though; unfortunately, there’s no permission bit to stop new users from adding profile links. A while ago, I removed the ability for new users to modify their signatures, which are also visible in the profile and can be used for additional indexed links.)

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:15 pm

Thanks for the clarification. The second point is particularly reassuring - that is certainly something I was un-aware of.
As for policy, it's not really my job to debate such issues, although I'm happy to do so. But I will certainly chip in if I think I have something useful to contribute.

Gimi · Post by **Gimi** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 6:37 am

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Overnight culprits.

Sveta_Moky
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... le&u=19428
Profile in Cyrillic, 2 min logged on, unrelated ICQ profile.
Pretty sure this one can go.

runsofterik
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... le&u=19434
Link pimp. Kill.

SFS is down by the way.
Alternatives I have are:
BotScout
Spam-IP
FSPamlist

Gimi · Post by **Gimi** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 7:45 am

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fycysibs
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19438
Link pimp. Kill.

Edit: The big D got it while it was online.

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 8:33 am

<Smivs gets up late>
I'll have to have an egg...there's no spam left for breakfast!

Gimi · Post by **Gimi** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:30 am

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Mitch64
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... le&u=19440
Link pimp.

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:25 pm

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Mmm, spam for tea today

lenseinks
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19447

Link-pimp

Website · Post by **Cody** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:35 pm

Alas... lenseinks has been diced, battered, and deep-fried!

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 6:05 pm

I was quite glad he turned up when he did...I missed breakfast earlier as Gimi ate it all

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:34 am

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Four 'new members' overnight. Two obvious link-pimps

deskappsadmin
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19470

Quedplete
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19471

One is almost certainly OK, the other almost certainly isn't, but shows as clean as far as I can tell so I won't name them here just in case. The username starts with 'A' and encrypts as 'ngebybggr' using rot13. Profile is here

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 5:23 pm

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Nevyxabecebaf (rot13 to protect the innocent)
Profile

I can find no incriminating evidence whatsoever, but my bumps are tingling anyway.

Gimi · Post by **Gimi** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:26 am

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Briderhit
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19497
Link pimp.

rahaglpuvgr (ROT 13)
Profile
No hits on SFS or on google but:
Unpronounceable user name.
Online for a total of 4 minutes.
Suspicious, please check.

viersdiokbisk
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19500
Link pimp

HypejeotteHed
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19501
Another link pimp.

barkrapbc (ROT 13)
Profile
No hits on SFS or on google but:
Unpronounceable user name.
Online for a total of 5 minutes.
Suspicious, please check.

Gimi · Post by **Gimi** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:27 am

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Starkessn
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... le&u=19503
Another link pimp came inn while I was tagging the over night newcomers.

Gimi · Post by **Gimi** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 5:32 am

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Over night offenders.

Loyamyabale
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... le&u=19529
Link pimp due for removal.

taibliobbic
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... le&u=19530
Another link pimp.

zdjkdasjkz
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... le&u=19531
And yet another link pimp.

Cuclimikild
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... le&u=19532
And guess what, there is one more.

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