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Author Topic: I want to know more about spam on forum  (Read 12452 times)
meteusfrostgreat
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« on: March 01, 2007, 05:49:26 PM »

when i surf inet and forum like this I often see message like this:
 
Let me know if you see my link here?
 
link? what link?

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why people do this
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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2007, 08:12:49 PM »

wait wait, i thought you disabled guest posting?
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« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2007, 10:11:57 PM »

Nope. Registration was disabled for a bit, and now requires vegetable identification, but guest posting is still enabled.



So, Hornet - how do you feel about writing an Invision mod that strips links from guest posts? Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2007, 05:28:40 AM »


You've seen the state of Invision's codebase - give me a few tablets of LSD and I'll consider it. Tongue

Seriously, maybe.  We'd still be attacked by large quantities of random posts though, some pornographic and rather dubious, the links aside.  I'll see about tying the Captcha into the guest posting system, but as said, that'll require a hefty dose of psychotropics before it even begins to make sense.
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« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2007, 02:26:13 PM »

As funny as Hornet on psychotropics could potentially be ... why not just have guest posting disabled?  
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« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2007, 02:42:14 PM »

how dare you even think of suggesting something so sensible
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and the last question do u get a sudden eye twicth and shudder wen i say :

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« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2007, 03:08:28 PM »

Because guest posting is a vital component of a Free, Open and Accessible Internet, and I wont sacrifice that just because of some spamming arseholes.
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« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2007, 04:55:44 PM »

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Because guest posting is a vital component of a Free, Open and Accessible Internet, and I wont sacrifice that just because of some spamming arseholes.
Registering costs no money, requires only a valid email address and doesn't have giant padlocks on it. Free, accessible AND open!
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« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2007, 07:41:15 PM »

"costs no money" - I said Free, not free.

"requires only a valid email address" - which reduces Accessibility.

"doesn't have giant padlocks" - no, just giant fruits. Tongue


When you're walking down the road, you don't have to carry an ID card if you want to have a conversation with people, nor do you have to answer riddles or pat your head whilst rubbing your belly.
So why should you be forced to do so on the Internet?
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« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2007, 08:54:33 PM »

you dont use ID cards and the head-pat code where you live? thats just wierd
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and the last question do u get a sudden eye twicth and shudder wen i say :

CLEAN?
RipperRoo says:
yes
Yiff Hunter says:
rite ive declared u imorally peasant like
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« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2007, 04:16:58 AM »

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"costs no money" - I said Free, not free.

"requires only a valid email address" - which reduces Accessibility.

"doesn't have giant padlocks" - no, just giant fruits. Tongue


When you're walking down the road, you don't have to carry an ID card if you want to have a conversation with people, nor do you have to answer riddles or pat your head whilst rubbing your belly.
So why should you be forced to do so on the Internet?
Because the spam is getting real old now and would go away if you turned guests off Smiley.
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« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2007, 06:07:23 AM »

yea their porn is shit to be honest and its not even gauranteed to be heterosexual


...i can spell!?!
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« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2007, 01:39:25 AM »

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...i can spell!?!
Apparently so. Smiley


SS - however, if people walking down the street started randomly talking to strangers using rubbish grammar and trying to offer them badly made porn, everyone'd probably stop going out in public and we'd all have to get special permission from the government to have the ability to speak. :huh:
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Apparently so. Smiley


SS - however, if people walking down the street started randomly talking to strangers using rubbish grammar and trying to offer them badly made porn, everyone'd probably stop going out in public and we'd all have to get special permission from the government to have the ability to speak. :huh:
And when you accept their offer of badly made porn you get ill and need reformatting.
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« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2007, 08:10:42 PM »

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if people walking down the street started randomly talking to strangers using rubbish grammar and trying to offer them badly made porn, everyone'd probably stop going out in public and we'd all have to get special permission from the government to have the ability to speak.
Which would be a sign that the police force is shit and needs fixing.

Unfortunately I can't de-analogise the police force into Internet terms. Sad

But I can for the concept of putting a muzzle around strangers which detects rubbish and prevent anyone else from hearing it.
ie: Filter all guest postings through Akismet.

Or at least, I could do that if there was an IPB plugin for it.

But there is a generic PHP library which looks simple enough to use... watch this space:  
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