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Saw an interesting suggestion on HN about dealing with spambots.
You just add a hidden "link" or "URL" field to the message page. If the field is non-empty, then just send the post to /dev/null. It won't affect humans, because the field's hidden in the HTML. But most spam bots will just blindly spam their campaign links in any relevant field. Best of all, the change can be made with nothing more than a few lines of PHP with no external service dependency.
A lot of the HN posters said that if you're running a mid-sized web forum, the trick stops 90%+ of spam. |
Good questions outrank easy answers.
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Jurassic
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Why don't we just make signing up recommendation based?
I am happy to help be a mod. Require a linkedin profile or some validation and a human goes in and approves or denies membership.
I think enough of us respect and appreciate this (FREE) forum to put in a few minutes here and there. |
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zee4
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| There have been numerous suggestions and potential solutions to keep this place clean. It looks like there is no interest from the other side. |
Бухарский |
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| But who is on the other side here? |
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nikol
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Why not purging threads with zero response after X days.
Maybe additional conditions:
- negative score
- author is fresh |
... What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? (c) |
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chiral3
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| People are just too busy. As you can tell, there's some functionality to ban sock puppet accounts, but it's manual and requires some policing. Was fine 10 years ago, but not perfect today. |
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй! |
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goldorak
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> Require a linkedin
Because you think this stupid website that has been sending spam to people for years is a reference? I tend to automatically discard CV from people with a linkedin profile.
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If you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much space. |
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JTDerp
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> I tend to automatically discard CV from people with a linkedin profile.
This is refreshing...I mean that in a totally non-sarcastic way
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"How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules." - C.S. |
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nikol
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| Fresh news: "NP is attacked by drones. Populus is perplexed". |
... What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? (c) |
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| I have experienced Spamming also the time when I download games from an untrusted site. Good thing, someone recommended me an unblocked website where I can download games that are available on google which makes it more accesible and convenient. You can find popular games on that platform like mobile legends and forge of empire. You should check it out if you have time. |
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agentq
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| Sometimes I wonder if Jurassic is some bot regurgitating stackexchange/quora questions. Or in high school. |
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nikol
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I wondered too, but perhaps it's just an avatar of stackexchange/Permian with motto:
"I love it when people upvote my questions and answers"
Quite human
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... What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? (c) |
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| I'd be interested to help in some way if at all possible, either modding manually or writing some code if that'd be helpful. This bot wave is rather saddening... |
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pj
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Ser Ilyn Payne/You know who you are
what are you using these days?
Catnip?
It is a f***g disgrace.
When there is zillions ways to solve the problem and a
few volunteers to mod the bloody forum.
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The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom
Henry L. Mencken |
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nikol
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"Off-topic" with discussions about covid and slow quarrel with crazy quasi-scientist - these are hot spots of NP
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... What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? (c) |
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nikol
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It would be cool if spam topics init'ed by banned personages (and marked red?) were purged or relocated into "Trashcan" (perhaps easier).
Difficult to find something especially in "General" branch. ~90% of topics at first 2 pages is spam. |
... What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? (c) |
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pj
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>Ser Ilyn Payne/You know who you are
>what are you using these days?
>Catnip?
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>It is a f***g disgrace.
>When there is zillions ways to solve the problem and a
>few volunteers to mod the bloody forum. |
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom
Henry L. Mencken |
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| I would happily spend a day stumbling through this source code to implement the fix described here... |
"Nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future." |
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nikol
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Waw! Local spambots started to speak Dutch. We can reasonably expect more in Russian, Chinese, maybe Sami or Swahili, who knows.
NP gets a fame as an international spam-trash.. :))
PS. I was always fascinated by Klingons.
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... What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? (c) |
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Please make me a mod. Just make the community closed and only members can post.
Please. FFS.
I know PHP, js...etc. All the dated, BD languages that this may be written in. |
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pj
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Ser Ilyn Payne! FDAXHunter! Nonius! Johnny!
Anyone?
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The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom
Henry L. Mencken |
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nikol
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| We surrender. Dictatorship or Absolute Monarchy is wanted. |
... What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? (c) |
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pj
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We do have a benevolent dictator, but
he/she has seemingly lost interest in
this particular part of the universe.
How does that Phrench saying go?
Après moi, le déluge |
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom
Henry L. Mencken |
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nikol
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| Time to start a discussion about the difference between Nike and Adidas. |
... What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? (c) |
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