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Re: How to react to forum spam
Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 3:41 pm
by Sexless Dummy
Whats with all the spam lately? i thought this new registration process was only created to prevent this happening. But it seems, it is even worse now than before.
Re: How to react to forum spam
Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 9:05 pm
by Banquo
I've deleted a hunk of spam this evening. I'd like to reassure you all that the code system still appears to be preventing the creation of new spam accounts.
All the recent spam activity has been by old accounts. My guess is, when the door was open to sign up without checks, and codes, the spambots created dozens, hundereds, or possibly thousands of "sleeper" accounts. It's from these accounts that they are posting, not newly created ones.
As for clearing the spam, I'm afraid I've not had that much time to commit to Milo lately, and I can't guarantee I will have any more going forward.
Just keep reporting the spammers, and myself and the other forum mods will clear it as and when we can.
Re: How to react to forum spam
Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 11:03 pm
by Banquo
No problem, I know it can be frustrating when this spam builds up with no explanation or sign it's being dealt with. We will all keep trying to do our best to clear it when we can.
Re: How to react to forum spam
Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 12:06 am
by Sissy Elise
Maybe time to get rid of the non active mods and replace them with new to help deal with the spam, then it wont be such a large job for 1 person to do.
Re: How to react to forum spam
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 9:54 am
by Banquo
Marno wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2017 9:33 am
Banquo wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2017 9:05 pmAll the recent spam activity has been by old accounts. … the spambots created dozens, hundreds, or possibly thousands of "sleeper" accounts.
May I suggest that you find all accounts that are older than the new registration system, have no posts, and have not been logged into since they were created.
Delete them all.
If there are thousands of sleeper accounts, this will save you many hours over the coming months. It will also prevent a possibly disastrous situation where the bot owners decide to activate them all within a short time.
If there happens to be a bona fide account in there where the owner suddenly decides to log in after all this time, they will have to re-register.
We can't just go around deleting accounts that have done nothing wrong, people use accounts on Milo for many different reasons, many users never post on the forum, but are active in chat. Others simply use the webteases, or even create them.
So I'm afraid this just isn't a viable option.
the trouble with Spam on Milovana
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 3:05 am
by les
If Spammers want us to click on their websites.
They should make it highly Explicit and extremely Kinky
Re: How to react to forum spam
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:17 pm
by niceguy
I'm a huge fan of your mazes, and IMHO, this is far and away the best one yet. I love it. Well done!