Reporting spam

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:44 am

ramon wrote:
https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php? ... ile&u=1266

Rxke wrote:
and another one, dum dum dum... https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php? ... ile&u=1266

Er, what? This is someone with no advertising in his profile, who hasn’t posted anything. What exactly differentiates this from someone who hasn’t got around to saying anything or customising their profile yet? Be reasonable, people. The existance of board members who haven’t contributed anything is not going to bring the place down in flames.

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:04 am

I delete their spam-message, and then report them, so it looks like they have not posted yet...

I mean: when I find spam, I look up the profile, copy it to the buffer, then delete the spam and then paste their profile here for reporting. So if you later look up the profile it says zero messages.

that's just because I don't think keeping spam-post around for double checking makes much sense, spam is spam, it's simple and annoying, so just delete it ASAP when you find it.

I don't put up people that did not spam, honestly, I'm not that crazy. (Though I'm a little bit crazy, heh)

ramon · Post by **ramon** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:23 am

or did you think it was some sort of conspiracy that 2 people reported it!

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:12 pm

Oh. Right. Fair enough.

LittleBear · Post by **LittleBear** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:06 am

JonkaterUS

Britnude! (bit of a giveaway)!

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:35 am

LittleBear wrote:
JonkaterUS

Britnude! (bit of a giveaway)!

a.k.a.

https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php? ... ile&u=1282

and https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php? ... ile&u=1283

Note to Ahruman: They posted spam so I deleted it, but they're really spamming

Dr. Nil · Post by **Dr. Nil** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:44 pm

https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=1261

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:46 pm

https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=26457#26457

killitkillitkillitkillit

Captain Hesperus
"The rewards of tolerance and mercy are betrayal and death."

HueijRevisited · Post by **HueijRevisited** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:12 pm

Could it be...?

https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=1285

Edit: to keep the list neat and tidy, can anyone delete this one:

https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... file&u=808 ?

That was my first try to register but I never got a confirmation e-mail, so after three weeks I registered again with my current handle. Thanks.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:50 am

HueijRevisited wrote:
Edit: to keep the list neat and tidy, can anyone delete this one:

https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... file&u=808 ?

That was my first try to register but I never got a confirmation e-mail, so after three weeks I registered again with my current handle. Thanks.

Done. I’m not sure whether “normal” users can change their handles; if not, I can do it for you if you like.

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:56 am

Ahruman wrote:
I’m not sure whether “normal” users can change their handles.

I don't think "normal" applies to any Ooliteer

AndySlater · Post by **AndySlater** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:51 pm

Ahruman wrote:
I’m not sure whether “normal” users can change their handles; if not, I can do it for you if you like.

There's a setting in the phpBB admin screens
General Admin / Configuration / User and Forum Basic Settings
"Allow Username changes" can be set on or off for the board.

Personally I'm inclined to leave it switched off as I don't see any good reason to allow members to do that. A member who really, really needs it for some reason can ask the Administrator.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:12 pm

AndySlater wrote:
Personally I'm inclined to leave it switched off as I don't see any good reason to allow members to do that. A member who really, really needs it for some reason can ask the Administrator.

Well, quite. I didn’t expect Giles to have turned such a silly setting on (but I didn’t know where to look), and this guy has a reasonable potential reason. :-)

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:25 pm

https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php? ... ile&u=1288

uses hidden spammessages (I mean you can't see the spam, but it's there with hidden code, so spiders crawl it etc...

AndySlater · Post by **AndySlater** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:40 pm

Ahruman wrote:
Well, quite. I didn’t expect Giles to have turned such a silly setting on (but I didn’t know where to look), and this guy has a reasonable potential reason.

Feel free to ask me if you want to know something about phpBB.