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Post by jdv on Mar 14, 2012 8:59:28 GMT -5
As we all know, there's been a tide of spam, each goal being titled with someone's first name. NW has 15 pages of it this morning.
What is being done to counteract this other than all of us voting it down?
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Post by candiedsky on Mar 18, 2012 0:15:19 GMT -5
I agree. They're not even goals. A name is NOT a goal. What is being done about this?
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Post by Joe Goldberg on Mar 29, 2012 12:55:24 GMT -5
HI jdv and candiedsky,
Sorry for the delay in replying to you.
We have no plans to handle this differently than we handle other spammers. They'll soon realize that they won't get links from 43things, and move elsewhere.
15 pages may seem intimidating, but between all the community members who use NW, it gets cleared out pretty quickly. Don't feel obligated to go through all pages, when there are a lot of them.
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Post by PurpleHeather on Apr 9, 2012 4:49:26 GMT -5
There are 360 pages of mainly name spam this morning!!
What has happened?
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Post by Joe Goldberg on Apr 9, 2012 19:06:46 GMT -5
The spam attack has gotten worse so we're looking into defeating it programmatically. We appreciate your patience while we fight this battle of good against evil!
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Post by Joe Goldberg on Apr 10, 2012 18:50:30 GMT -5
We seem to have locked out this spam bot. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Post by jdv on Apr 20, 2012 16:28:30 GMT -5
Only locked it out for a while - there's now more than a thousand to review and report on  |
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Post by PurpleHeather on Apr 21, 2012 4:03:00 GMT -5
Nearly 2000 now  |
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Post by PurpleHeather on Apr 22, 2012 8:22:49 GMT -5
Over 3000 now |
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Post by PurpleHeather on Apr 23, 2012 1:22:22 GMT -5
And well over 4000 now  |
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Post by jdv on Apr 23, 2012 9:16:55 GMT -5
over 5000 |
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Post by PurpleHeather on May 5, 2012 0:28:54 GMT -5
After being cleared almost 2 weeks ago it's back - 1500 and climbing
Good luck robots
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Post by PurpleHeather on May 6, 2012 6:04:53 GMT -5
This is ridiculous - 2500 and climbing
Anything we can do to help with this?
Obviously can't spend 24/7 on NW just kicking off spammers...
Heather
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Post by jdv on May 7, 2012 9:33:25 GMT -5
4637 now. One of the spam entries was for a political campaign. I sent the candidate an email and told him to fire his SEO company, because they were making him look like a slimeball. I'm not sure if such emails have any efficacy. The candidate probably is a sleeze, anyway.
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Post by Joe Goldberg on May 10, 2012 16:53:44 GMT -5
We'll take a look at it, thanks.
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