The crazy # of spam accounts

NR2001 · Before February 2015

Look here:
http://eeforumify.com/userlist.php?user … r=DESC&p=1
This is why the forum crashed??

Are these going to be deleted or what?

Arceus64 · Before February 2015

I believe 90% of all registered users are spam accounts, whether they actually post or not.

If they were the reason the forum crashed, I would suspect we would've seen it happen more frequently in the past.

Edit: Stupid auto-correct.

Last edited by Arceus64 (Apr 9 2013 5:49:09 pm)

NR2001 · Before February 2015

Are the mods going to clean those accounts out or what? There's so many pages in the user list of just random accounts that were made today, yesterday, 3 days ago, etc.
This isn't good for the forum.

Last edited by NR2001 (Apr 10 2013 4:32:23 pm)

Arceus64 · Before February 2015

It's way too much work, it's almost impossible. Plus, there's no real advantages that would make all the work worth it.

Bimps · Before February 2015

the number of accounts with 0 posts are as followed:
78.379154698399671727533853098071%

damn, more 3/4 of accounts have not posted. a lot most be spam
NOET: i did number of accounts (24370) divided by the number of accounts with 0 posts (19101) with the decimal moved two places to the left. this will not be updated.

THIS NUMBER IS VALID AT LEAST FROM 6:56 PM 11/4/13. IT WILL GET BIGGER, SADLY.

Tako · Before February 2015

We're not going to assume every new user is an adbot and start banning them for not posting.

A much better solution is to monitor the user's first 10 posts. That eliminates 99% of adbots/spambots/raiders.

Different55 · Before February 2015

Most spam bots only make one post. Monitoring their first 10 won't cut down on spam all that much.

N1KF · Before February 2015

Arceus64 wrote:

It's way too much work, it's almost impossible. Plus, there's no real advantages that would make all the work worth it.

There's a simple button that can delete all accounts with lower than X posts, and that is younger than Y.

Bimps · Before February 2015

sure, ignore my statistics

Arceus64 · Before February 2015

Number(1)KirbyFan10 wrote:

Arceus64 wrote:
It's way too much work, it's almost impossible. Plus, there's no real advantages that would make all the work worth it.
There's a simple button that can delete all accounts with lower than X posts, and that is younger than Y.

Where'd you find that?

Rurigok · Before February 2015

Just because we can prune accounts doesn't mean we should. Trying to process a query that large would more than likely kill the database. There is not much we can do at the moment, unfortunately.

Bimps · Before February 2015

yep, ignore my stats, just fine with me....

N1KF · Before February 2015

Arceus64 wrote:

Number(1)KirbyFan10 wrote:
There's a simple button that can delete all accounts with lower than X posts, and that is younger than Y.
Where'd you find that?

I have a forum on Punbb-Hosting that uses similar stuff to Forumify. There's a feature that does what I said above.

Rurigok wrote:

Just because we can prune accounts doesn't mean we should. Trying to process a query that large would more than likely kill the database. There is not much we can do at the moment, unfortunately.

Maybe you can do quiet a few at a time?

Bimps · Before February 2015

it's like my stats don't exist!

Onjit · Before February 2015

I think we should just leave them. If they're not doing anything, there's no problem.

Bimps · Before February 2015

and no one is acknowledging my existence

arteem · Before February 2015

You should add captcha to the registration form... If someone enters it three times wrong, their IP should be banned for a day. Can this stop it?

Bimps · Before February 2015

looks like i did my stats for nothing

Different55 · Before February 2015

arteem wrote:

You should add captcha to the registration form... If someone enters it three times wrong, their IP should be banned for a day. Can this stop it?

We already have a captcha, but clearly it's not doing it's job. We need either a better captcha or a different type of captcha.

Bimps · Before February 2015

god dammit, we already have a captcha topic, AND I ALREADY POSTED THERE TOO!

Deetz · Before February 2015

@bimps: your stats are being ignored because they are not what the current discussion is about right now. It's nice that we know how polluted our forums are, though.

Bimps · Before February 2015

Deetz wrote:

@bimps: your stats are being ignored because they are not what the current discussion is about right now. It's nice that we know how polluted our forums are, though.

it is nice. also, this is the topic is this for the captcha

Tako · Before February 2015

Different55 wrote:

Most spam bots only make one post. Monitoring their first 10 won't cut down on spam all that much.

By "monitor" I meant the blog type thing where it isn't displayed until a moderator approves it.

Different55 · Before February 2015

Bimps1002 wrote:

it is nice. also, this is the topic is this for the captcha

We're talking about the number of spam accounts, not captchas. Captchas came up in this topic but this topic is still about the number of spam accounts.

TakoMan02 wrote:

By "monitor" I meant the blog type thing where it isn't displayed until a moderator approves it.

That would work well but it would probably never happen.

Koto · Before February 2015

How about delete every user that has 0 posts that is older than 1 month?

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