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    • #20568
      Top Gun
      Participant

      It seems like every time I come on here there’s some crazy post at the top that seems like it would have nothing to do with what’s discussed here and it always says “awaiting moderation”?

    • #20569
      MotleyCrue81
      Participant

      It’s spam is what it is.

      Bring hair metal back!

    • #20570
      Igglepud
      Participant

      Yes, it’s SPAM and it happens on every forum.

      MY ROCK IS FIERCE!!!

    • #20571
      Sarah Spisak
      Keymaster

      I clean it up and and comes right back!

    • #20573
      superblonde
      Keymaster

      Yes russian hackers are trying to kill rock n roll!! 😮

      Actually it’s true, I traced some of the addresses and they are from Ukraine mostly. Every so often I dive into the internals and try different things then wait a couple days to see if it helps or not. So far blocking by geography hasn’t helped much. Some of the legit user accounts seem like part of the spam was using those passwords to do ‘stuff’. Most of the spam actually seems to be just massive creation of fake user accounts rather than posting stuff.. I’ve probably deleted 1000 of these fake accounts in the past couple months.

      In general for the new year 2017 it would be a good idea for everyone everywhere to pick new passwords for every account on every site they have. Yahoo for example keeps releasing more news about how many more millions of users had their passwords stolen from their yahoo accounts, etc.

      The bizarre part is that it is just random junk spam. I mean it is not even doing anything really. Some of the hundreds of spam accounts I deleted were like Cialis this or Viagra that. But in general it is just random nonsense in the messages.

      I blame this spam problem on wordpress. Their software has bugs that they don’t fix.

      I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
      And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

    • #20575
      rightonthemark
      Participant

      the russians…?…

      rock and roll ain't pretty; that's why they picked us to play it.

    • #20576
      Sarah Spisak
      Keymaster

      I heard “Bang” on CBS This Morning the other day!

    • #20577
      Top Gun
      Participant

      Wow that sounds like a lot of work for you two.

    • #20578
      Sarah Spisak
      Keymaster

      Wow that sounds like a lot of work for you two.

      LOL!  Just a daily “tidying up” on my part.  🙂

    • #20581
      superblonde
      Keymaster

      Working tirelessly in the pursuit of rock n roll!! 😮

      The funny thing is that previously, only Motley’s great “custom guitar project build” thread was getting all the spam. then I fixed that and it stopped for months. Then in the winter this new constant flux started up. It’s not a big deal tho probably just need to upgrade to a stronger Captcha system and that will stop the fake accounts. Currently it’s always: it’s a new spam account, posts one spam, then goes on to make another new spam account. But at least Motley’s guitar build thread is safe, ha.

      I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
      And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

    • #20583
      MotleyCrue81
      Participant

      Haha thanks for that SB! Is there a way for creating an account to have an image and the user would have to give an answer like what the word in the image is or maybe like an image of 2 + 2 and the sneer input would be 4?

      Bring hair metal back!

    • #20584
      superblonde
      Keymaster

      Yes, that’s called a Captcha. i.e. those funny verification pictures or questions. It already has one. But spammers, what they do is, (assuming they havent found a bug in the web software which allows them to bypass things) – they run image recognition programs on these captcha’s, so they get the correct answers automatically.. the questions can only get so fuzzy until they’re impossible even for humans. I usually fail my first couple tries myself when I make an account somewhere. Also, wordpress is a bit limited in what is easy to do, my first thought was, just add some easy music trivia question which random spammers would fail. It’s hard to do in wordpress without finding a plugin. See, wordpress has a great business model – they make a Pinto and then a bunch of 3rd parties have to offer services to fix the pinto, so it seems to onlookers, like there’s so much ‘great’ business going on, that the Pinto must be a great car to drive.

      I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
      And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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