Pantsing and Stripping Forums

Robert Brooks wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 12:12 am In the meantime, I found a simple way to hide the posts you don’t want to see, using the ‘foe’ list.
If you click on the spammer’s profile, you can ‘add foe’ and it hides everything they post. Just for you though.

See who thanked you, my foe list is massive, insert dirty joke here

My suggestions are

Signature ban until approved (set number off valid posts)

First 5 posts need to be approved (painful but got to be less work than deleting threads)

ISP log for the spammers (got to be possible)

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10. Restricting users to a small subset of the forum until they have X number of posts or Y number of days or something similar may help -- the bots will activate and spam those regions instead of the rest of the site.


I like this idea/suggestion, I can't believe that I didn't think to ...

Girlspns wrote: Sun Feb 16, 2025 3:45 pm Well, one of the new anti-spam countermeasures seems to be working, so at the very least the spammer won't have an easy time getting around it.

May you be proved correct

Maybe turn off new membership for now, until can figure out how to block these spammers


If its a human, which I think it is, we need to approve posts before they appear for people under a set number of posts and restrict signatures for another number of posts and as I've seen on another forum ...

PhilMarlowe wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 6:57 pm I am sure that some of us will volunteer to help with that moderation.

/Phil

I have, earlier in this thread, but the boss has to trust the people involved