We got a lot of spam here

[Wookiee]

@pwallie technically I should give you a warning for posting so much "Spam" but it is only so much chopped pork.

[Alan Tubbs]

I get spam thru Microsoft, in apple, from email.  Every once in a while I get some from Bandlab, I suppose.  Delete and report is your friend, until you realize they just add new spam for the deleted ones.

 

[Bill Phillips]

On 11/30/2024 at 12:40 PM, 57Gregy said:

You have to be here late night/early morning when the spammers strike.
They're usually nuked quickly once reported.

Thanks @57Gregy. That explains why I'd never noticed them. The whole fracas is much ado about nothing.

Also, looks like @Wookee et al do as well as can be expected in  responding to, tagging and removing spam.

[57Gregy]

On 11/30/2024 at 2:12 PM, pwallie said:

So is anything happening to stop the spam?

@Wookiee

Do you know?

They're in the process of signing with Tom Cruise and the Precrime Bureau to nuke the spammers when they first think of spamming the forum.

[AndyB01]

The level of spam on this forum is not especially significant, the filters and mods do a pretty good job. It takes me a few seconds to report a spam post - which I typically do a couple of times a month, at most.

There's always a trade off between the effort and cost required to make a site 'spam-proof' (assuming that's even possible) and a level of spam that is considered tolerable..

As @Wookiee observed - the mods do have a life outside of this forum and don't spend all their spare time on here hunting out rogue posts. We can all help by reporting swiftly when we see any - as has already been pointed out.

Andy

[Wookiee]

51 minutes ago, 57Gregy said:

They're in the process of signing with Tom Cruise and the Precrime Bureau to nuke the spammers when they first think of spamming the forum.

Unfortunately the UN said nuking spammers was technically a violation of their free speech  😎

[Amberwolf]

just some perspective for the average forum member to think about:

 

i've got a few years  of experience with spam control over on the endless sphere ebike forum, and i can say that it is a highly manual operation that depends on forum members reporting it when they see it, and many hours per week of manual sifting thru the recently registered members list to check them against each other, prior spammers, spam control sites like stopforumspam, etc, and basically just having a "feel" for who is a real person and who is just signing up to spam so you can ban them before they drop their load on your forum.

 

that is a lot more work than most people ahve time for, especially since virtually no moderator or admin of a forum gets paid in any way for their time, and virtually none are so dedicated to a forum as to spend a significant percentage of every day doing that work  (i was one of those until earlier this year, but just couldn't continue doing that and the other things i have to do). 

 

automatic spam control has severe limitations--if you set it up for strictness, it's going to nuke real people and real content.  you never want that to happen; it's better to let spam thru than to ever cause problems for real users.

 

over at es we have worked on various spam control and management and prevention tools and methods over the years, but there's no good automation that is going to get all the spammers without getting real users too. 😞 

 

 

so....anyone that sees spam should report it so it can be removed, and that's about all you can really do.   if the forum software is advanced enough to autohide it when reported enough, that's great; most places dont have that, so that makes this place easier to keep clean than most.