Three days now, the same spammer with his hundred lines of links. It would seem there should be a way to script a warning about his posts so he could be found and blocked sooner.
tvrgeek
Spammer is on full attack
That's life with this platform. All you have to do is flag it, Cricket gets them down fairly quickly.
I only read 387 of them… and they were all the same. Poor bugger must have had a sticky key on his/her keyboard.
And bring looneys like me on board.
I was making a suggestion that this has a very definitive pattern and it could possibly be identified earlier.
Yes, I flag them as I find them. Not a complaint, a suggestion.
Yes, I flag them as I find them. Not a complaint, a suggestion.
Today every LJ's email notice was from the spammer and one thread got hit twice.
You know whats funny? If they only posted the links once I'd be more inclined to click!
Moron bots.
You know whats funny? If they only posted the links once I'd be more inclined to click!
Moron bots.
A digital kick in their teeth so to speak.
Theres the programmatic solution!
If too many users, say ten, block a user in too short of a time, say an hour, then the user account is locked until admin alert &review. Voila, c'est solve!
If too many users, say ten, block a user in too short of a time, say an hour, then the user account is locked until admin alert &review. Voila, c'est solve!
The SPAM issue has been a perennial problem on LJ for far too many years. There's really only two explanations for this:
1) The corporate suits don't care enough about the problem to commit sufficient resources to end it, i.e., the inconvenience and frustration to LJ members hasn't been enough to hurt their bottom line, so they don't give a rat's patootie.
2) The person in charge of preventing this crap in the first place isn't capable of doing so, or isn't given the tools to do so (see #1).
I'm active on quite a few other forums, and the level of SPAM on those forums is minuscule by comparison-nonexistent in some cases. As long as LJ members find this sort of whac-a-mole SPAM acceptable, it will never end.
1) The corporate suits don't care enough about the problem to commit sufficient resources to end it, i.e., the inconvenience and frustration to LJ members hasn't been enough to hurt their bottom line, so they don't give a rat's patootie.
2) The person in charge of preventing this crap in the first place isn't capable of doing so, or isn't given the tools to do so (see #1).
I'm active on quite a few other forums, and the level of SPAM on those forums is minuscule by comparison-nonexistent in some cases. As long as LJ members find this sort of whac-a-mole SPAM acceptable, it will never end.
I ate it for years and no ill effects just look at me as an example.
I am betting its still in the 10 man and CRPs today!
BTW stand by for a verbal kick in the @ss from cricket for starting a rubbish post and attracting weirdos.
I am betting its still in the 10 man and CRPs today!
BTW stand by for a verbal kick in the @ss from cricket for starting a rubbish post and attracting weirdos.
Goodonya Foggy... my stash of spam,
was NOT accumulated from unsolicited email.
Attachments
Mm2, the problem is apathy... knew I had to get dragged into my phobia!
If enough people corrected/enlightened sideways posters we'd see the end of sideways pictures… Unfortunately, too many people are apathetic and persevere, letting their brains pour out of either their right or left ear.
If have never read the history of spam it's very interesting. At times, it was an important food source. Here's a short version.
https://www.eater.com/2014/7/9/6191681/a-brief-history-of-spam-an-american-meat-icon
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