Spam

[Hop_Scotch 1,634]

There has been an increase in spam lately particularly responding to posts. Is it possible to limit the number of posts a new member posts in their first 24 hours particularly when those posts are in a language other than English or if it can be detected that the posts are exactly the same or nearly the same please?

It is about 6.45pm now in Australia and a spammer/spam bot has just posted 29 posts (or more if they are still going).

[JordanKylie 83]

Holy crap that was so much spam. They gotta do something about that! That was miserable to sift through. Yikes.

[Alex Brecher 10,515]

We do have a system in place to block them. I’m going to try to fine tune it. Thanks for reporting.

[New&Improved 1,780]

Yes there was someone posting in Russian

[mattk53 124]

2 hours ago, New&Improved said:

Yes there was someone posting in Russian

Yeah I got those too.

[Hop_Scotch 1,634]

On 7/29/2020 at 9:55 PM, Alex Brecher said:

We do have a system in place to block them. I’m going to try to fine tune it. Thanks for reporting.

After this evening's spam attack I am prompted to ask, I don't suppose you want a spam moderator? I am happy to volunteer particularly to cover Australian evening and weekend times when those in the USA are likely to be asleep. I do this for MFP where a post must be reported as spam five times (so therefore needs five members to report) before it is removed, however, if I report a post for spam the post is automatically removed for moderation.

[Alex Brecher 10,515]

On 8/5/2020 at 5:05 AM, Hop_Scotch said:

After this evening's spam attack I am prompted to ask, I don't suppose you want a spam moderator? I am happy to volunteer particularly to cover Australian evening and weekend times when those in the USA are likely to be asleep. I do this for MFP where a post must be reported as spam five times (so therefore needs five members to report) before it is removed, however, if I report a post for spam the post is automatically removed for moderation.

That would be super helpful, thank you! I sent you a PM.