Heya m0nty by now you would be aware of the crap thats going on. No mods in Other AFL Comps to report it to mate.
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 12:00:41 AM
Heya m0nty by now you would be aware of the crap thats going on. No mods in Other AFL Comps to report it to mate.
Maybe just send a PM direct to HP in that instance. :-\
Grazz you should be a mod in this section ;)
Geez, l feel sorry for the mods with all this garbage going on
Quote from: Mr.Craig on November 17, 2012, 12:08:41 AM
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 12:00:41 AM
Heya m0nty by now you would be aware of the crap thats going on. No mods in Other AFL Comps to report it to mate.
Maybe just send a PM direct to HP in that instance. :-\
Yeh i did that mate thats how i found out there were no mods here, HP suggested i do this so when m0nty gets on its there for him to see.
Quote from: whatlez on November 17, 2012, 12:22:13 AM
Grazz you should be a mod in this section ;)
I'll do it happily HP's going harder than a one armed juglar with what he's got to look after. Plenty of qualified people though here to do it and its always going to be m0ntys call. He'd have a few in mind already i reckon. As long as someone gets the job soon its all good.
I can juggle one armed.
Anyone wanna by a watch for $100 or buy some cheap drugs?
Just send me a PM and I'll help you out.
I be telling you very good truth. 100% genuine.
Quote from: Ziplock on November 17, 2012, 01:02:47 AM
I can juggle one armed.
So can I with 2 balls but beside the point :P.
Sadly I can't do anything in that particular section as am not a Mod in that board :(.
Quote from: c4v3m4n on November 17, 2012, 01:09:17 AM
Anyone wanna by a watch for $100 or buy some cheap drugs?
Just send me a PM and I'll help you out.
I be telling you very good truth. 100% genuine.
I want to buy the dogs that guy was selling for $2,196
Quote from: Nails on November 17, 2012, 02:09:48 AM
Quote from: c4v3m4n on November 17, 2012, 01:09:17 AM
Anyone wanna by a watch for $100 or buy some cheap drugs?
Just send me a PM and I'll help you out.
I be telling you very good truth. 100% genuine.
I want to buy the dogs that guy was selling for $2,196
Buy a Beagle nails they are brilliant and alot cheaper. ::)
Fixed.
They're also in the AFL Dream Team section. Does anyone feel like we're fighting off a zombie horde?
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 12:30:33 PM
Quote from: m0nty on November 17, 2012, 10:34:52 AM
Fixed.
Onya mate was getting out of control.
Still is, I just reported 4 more in the last 10 minutes. :-X
Quote from: c4v3m4n on November 17, 2012, 12:33:06 PM
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 12:30:33 PM
Quote from: m0nty on November 17, 2012, 10:34:52 AM
Fixed.
Onya mate was getting out of control.
Still is, I just reported 4 more in the last 10 minutes. :-X
I thought when m0nty said fixed that hed blocked the lot, looks like that was big assumption for me to make. Where are these ones
c4.
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 12:40:03 PM
Quote from: c4v3m4n on November 17, 2012, 12:33:06 PM
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 12:30:33 PM
Quote from: m0nty on November 17, 2012, 10:34:52 AM
Fixed.
Onya mate was getting out of control.
Still is, I just reported 4 more in the last 10 minutes. :-X
I thought when m0nty said fixed that hed blocked the lot, looks like that was big assumption for me to make. Where are these ones
c4.
Mostly within the AFL Dream Team section. They pop up every so often.
Occassionly there will be ones in SuperCoach or the Other AFL Comps board, but mostly in DT.
Probably cause no one likes DT. :P
Example: http://www.fanfooty.com.au/forum/index.php/topic,69313.msg929126/boardseen.html#new
: http://www.fanfooty.com.au/forum/index.php/topic,69317.0/topicseen.html
Have you reported the nine that are in the DT section already c4.
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 12:58:02 PM
Have you reported the nine that are in the DT section already c4.
Pretty much. :-\
With no m0nty or HP online, there isn't much we can do unfortunately. Just got to wait until one of them comes online to save the day. 8)
Quote from: c4v3m4n on November 17, 2012, 01:06:11 PM
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 12:58:02 PM
Have you reported the nine that are in the DT section already c4.
Pretty much. :-\
With no m0nty or HP online, there isn't much we can do unfortunately. Just got to wait until one of them comes online to save the day. 8)
Ok ive done em again anyway which wont hurt, HP's catching up on some sleep or i vaguely remember him saying he had some stuff he needed to do. m0nty is aware of it all now so i doubt he'll be away for to long, sounds like some more mods will be created soon which is exactly what we need for this situation.
When I click on unread posts, at least 3 quarters of them is just spam.
It's basically overload
It is isn't MM, never seen it this bad and Ive been coming here for at least 4 years as a member less but never seen it like this.
That's why i'm suspicious that it could be a member behind it, hope im wrong.
One of our members, stew42, has established a great initiative in those spam threads.
Once a thread pops up, report it and the reply within the thread just saying "Reported".
That way, everyone else knows that a report has been made as I'm not 100% if the mods get a report everytime someone clicks the button or if it's one report per thread.
But anyway, great initiative and it'll save us all time as we'll know which ones have or have not been reported.
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 01:28:31 PM
It is isn't MM, never seen it this bad and Ive been coming here for at least 4 years as a member less but never seen it like this.
That's why i'm suspicious that it could be a member behind it, hope im wrong.
some of them are in Russian so i doubt it
Quote from: c4v3m4n on November 17, 2012, 01:46:28 PM
One of our members, stew42, has established a great initiative in those spam threads.
Once a thread pops up, report it and the reply within the thread just saying "Reported".
That way, everyone else knows that a report has been made as I'm not 100% if the mods get a report everytime someone clicks the button or if it's one report per thread.
But anyway, great initiative and it'll save us all time as we'll know which ones have or have not been reported.
this is awkward......
http://www.fanfooty.com.au/forum/index.php/topic,69318.msg929148.html#msg929148
Yeh saw that c4, gave him a cheer for it, great idea saves us spamming the mods with the same reports.
Quote from: tabs on November 17, 2012, 01:51:13 PM
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 01:28:31 PM
It is isn't MM, never seen it this bad and Ive been coming here for at least 4 years as a member less but never seen it like this.
That's why i'm suspicious that it could be a member behind it, hope im wrong.
some of them are in Russian so i doubt itQuote from: c4v3m4n on November 17, 2012, 01:46:28 PM
One of our members, stew42, has established a great initiative in those spam threads.
Once a thread pops up, report it and the reply within the thread just saying "Reported".
That way, everyone else knows that a report has been made as I'm not 100% if the mods get a report everytime someone clicks the button or if it's one report per thread.
But anyway, great initiative and it'll save us all time as we'll know which ones have or have not been reported.
this is awkward......
http://www.fanfooty.com.au/forum/index.php/topic,69318.msg929148.html#msg929148
lol I just noticed stew42's post and figured it was the first as people have usually been replying with other junk.
Quote from: tabs on November 17, 2012, 01:51:13 PM
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 01:28:31 PM
It is isn't MM, never seen it this bad and Ive been coming here for at least 4 years as a member less but never seen it like this.
That's why i'm suspicious that it could be a member behind it, hope im wrong.
some of them are in Russian so i doubt itQuote from: c4v3m4n on November 17, 2012, 01:46:28 PM
One of our members, stew42, has established a great initiative in those spam threads.
Once a thread pops up, report it and the reply within the thread just saying "Reported".
That way, everyone else knows that a report has been made as I'm not 100% if the mods get a report everytime someone clicks the button or if it's one report per thread.
But anyway, great initiative and it'll save us all time as we'll know which ones have or have not been reported.
this is awkward......
http://www.fanfooty.com.au/forum/index.php/topic,69318.msg929148.html#msg929148
Was talking with HP last night and we were wondering if a member couldnt invite them in somehow. Being a computer illiterate i have no idea if this is possible but im sure plenty here would know if this is possible.
I really doubt its a member- the scams have all clearly been translated into english using google translate, or some other free translation website.
Quote from: Ziplock on November 17, 2012, 01:57:06 PM
I really doubt its a member- the scams have all clearly been translated into english using google translate, or some other free translation website.
Alot are clearly Russian and the gramar is worse than mine. Hope your right zip. Be a let down if a member was someway involved.
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 02:02:59 PM
Quote from: Ziplock on November 17, 2012, 01:57:06 PM
I really doubt its a member- the scams have all clearly been translated into english using google translate, or some other free translation website.
Alot are clearly Russian and the gramar is worse than mine. Hope your right zip. Be a let down if a member was someway involved.
Grammar worse than yours Grazz? Is that even possible? :P ;)
Yeah, credit to tabs for that one :)
Quote from: Nails on November 17, 2012, 02:05:12 PM
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 02:02:59 PM
Quote from: Ziplock on November 17, 2012, 01:57:06 PM
I really doubt its a member- the scams have all clearly been translated into english using google translate, or some other free translation website.
Alot are clearly Russian and the gramar is worse than mine. Hope your right zip. Be a let down if a member was someway involved.
Grammar worse than yours Grazz? Is that even possible? :P ;)
haha sadly it is, but it does sound kinda "Hot" ::)
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 01:55:28 PM
Quote from: tabs on November 17, 2012, 01:51:13 PM
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 01:28:31 PM
It is isn't MM, never seen it this bad and Ive been coming here for at least 4 years as a member less but never seen it like this.
That's why i'm suspicious that it could be a member behind it, hope im wrong.
some of them are in Russian so i doubt itQuote from: c4v3m4n on November 17, 2012, 01:46:28 PM
One of our members, stew42, has established a great initiative in those spam threads.
Once a thread pops up, report it and the reply within the thread just saying "Reported".
That way, everyone else knows that a report has been made as I'm not 100% if the mods get a report everytime someone clicks the button or if it's one report per thread.
But anyway, great initiative and it'll save us all time as we'll know which ones have or have not been reported.
this is awkward......
http://www.fanfooty.com.au/forum/index.php/topic,69318.msg929148.html#msg929148
Was talking with HP last night and we were wondering if a member couldnt invite them in somehow. Being a computer illiterate i have no idea if this is possible but im sure plenty here would know if this is possible.
There are various methods by which this can happen and the easiest answer is actually "bots".
Seeing at the number of accounts that have been created in the past 24 hours (I think we've gone past 110 now), and seeing that each of them have detailed taglines in their profile, I highly doubt that one individual is doing this by himself/herself, rather it's a single computer program that is designed to seek out forums, create new accounts and then find the first board and post random data inside. At least that is one function of bots.
That is why you will find on most websites that when you setup a new account you have to enter a CAPTCHA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA), which bots find extremely difficult to read.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Modern-captcha.jpg/290px-Modern-captcha.jpg)
The above picture is an example of one, we've all seen them surely. But this is the main defence that is used against bots. Hence why CAPTCHA stands for "
Completely
Automated
Public
Turing test to tell
Computers and
Humans
Apart".
Hopefully that answers your question Grazz.
Perfectly c4 and i have had seen those captcha things before aswell as had to follow the prompts which sometimes i find hard to read :-[ thanks for that atleast im learning something from all this.
Is this what m0nty will need to do in order to protect FF or do we have that already been to long and i cant remember from when i joined up.
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 02:13:32 PM
Perfectly c4 and i have had seen those captcha things before aswell as had to follow the prompts which sometimes i find hard to read :-[ thanks for that atleast im learning something from all this.
Is this what m0nty will need to do in order to protect FF or do we have that already been to long and i cant remember from when i joined up.
Not sure Grazz, m0nty would be the best person to ask that.
Quote from: c4v3m4n on November 17, 2012, 02:31:11 PM
Quote from: Grazz on November 17, 2012, 02:13:32 PM
Perfectly c4 and i have had seen those captcha things before aswell as had to follow the prompts which sometimes i find hard to read :-[ thanks for that atleast im learning something from all this.
Is this what m0nty will need to do in order to protect FF or do we have that already been to long and i cant remember from when i joined up.
Not sure Grazz, m0nty would be the best person to ask that.
No worries, i'll wait till he has it sorted then ask what he needed to do, i imagine he's busy enough at the minute to educate a computer dummy.
Quote from: c4v3m4n on November 17, 2012, 01:46:28 PM
One of our members, stew42, has established a great initiative in those spam threads.
Once a thread pops up, report it and the reply within the thread just saying "Reported".
That way, everyone else knows that a report has been made as I'm not 100% if the mods get a report everytime someone clicks the button or if it's one report per thread.
But anyway, great initiative and it'll save us all time as we'll know which ones have or have not been reported.
When a post is reported, no matter how many people report it, we just get 1 report for it (saying which users reported it). However, when a post is reported, an email is sent to Mods (which I don't mind as comes with being a Mod). But would save alot of time for others who don't have to report it which in itself can be time consuming if everybody has to go around searching for reports.
l'm starting to think it might be a member too :'(
Because they seem to based purely on nuisance value to the Mods, it's like someone has an axe to grind. Whereas if they were genuine spam/scams they'd be alot cleverer and more likely to dupe people
.....just my 2 cents worth, but really hope l'm wrong
Quote from: nostradamus on November 17, 2012, 09:41:07 PM
l'm starting to think it might be a member too :'(
Because they seem to based purely on nuisance value to the Mods, it's like someone has an axe to grind. Whereas if they were genuine spam/scams they'd be alot cleverer and more likely to dupe people
.....just my 2 cents worth, but really hope l'm wrong
That's what I think/expressed in the coaches section. It's more nuisance value than anything else.
Quote from: Windigo on November 17, 2012, 09:57:55 PM
Quote from: nostradamus on November 17, 2012, 09:41:07 PM
l'm starting to think it might be a member too :'(
Because they seem to based purely on nuisance value to the Mods, it's like someone has an axe to grind. Whereas if they were genuine spam/scams they'd be alot cleverer and more likely to dupe people
.....just my 2 cents worth, but really hope l'm wrong
That's what I think/expressed in the coaches section. It's more nuisance value than anything else.
It's 100% nothing to do with our members.
If you search the emails of each account you can see they have been recorded across many different sites as forum spammers over a number of months. This happens on a number of forums and isn't specific to us.
Clicked on DT am today & Spam splatted everywhere
They've now spread to every board including Mr. Football and the Feedback boards, where the report function doesn't work. :-\
http://www.fanfooty.com.au/forum/index.php/topic,22795.135.html
http://www.fanfooty.com.au/forum/index.php/topic,36351.msg929835.html#new
Yep, I noticed one in 'other sport'
http://www.fanfooty.com.au/forum/index.php/topic,68366.100.html#msg929842
How the flower is this gunna be stopped.
We need more mods to fix. This guy bfeuggsoff has been spamming SC Boards for the last half hour and despite reports to mods still no action. Last post only one minute ago.
In the meantime guys...
...let's play a game.
http://www.fanfooty.com.au/forum/index.php/topic,69454.0.html
My record is 18 seconds. :P
My game is how quickly can you delete a spam post/thread. My record is 40 seconds, anybody care to beat that?
Oh wait.... :'(.
Quote from: Hellopplz on November 18, 2012, 10:51:04 PM
My game is how quickly can you delete a spam post/thread. My record is 40 seconds, anybody care to beat that?
Oh wait.... :'(.
you win!! :'(
It's random spam from Russian and other sources. Nothing to suggest it's from anyone here.
Quote from: Hellopplz on November 18, 2012, 10:51:04 PM
My game is how quickly can you delete a spam post/thread. My record is 40 seconds, anybody care to beat that?
Oh wait.... :'(.
Pff 40 seconds, I'd heard you were quicker than that, but that may have been in the bedroom... :P
Quote from: CrowsFan on November 19, 2012, 12:21:47 AM
Quote from: Hellopplz on November 18, 2012, 10:51:04 PM
My game is how quickly can you delete a spam post/thread. My record is 40 seconds, anybody care to beat that?
Oh wait.... :'(.
Pff 40 seconds, I'd heard you were quicker than that, but that may have been in the bedroom... :P
I swear that was one time only :P.
Quote from: Hellopplz on November 19, 2012, 12:25:08 AM
Quote from: CrowsFan on November 19, 2012, 12:21:47 AM
Quote from: Hellopplz on November 18, 2012, 10:51:04 PM
My game is how quickly can you delete a spam post/thread. My record is 40 seconds, anybody care to beat that?
Oh wait.... :'(.
Pff 40 seconds, I'd heard you were quicker than that, but that may have been in the bedroom... :P
I swear that was one time only :P.
is there something you 2 guys arent telling us :o
Quote from: nostradamus on November 19, 2012, 12:41:07 AM
Quote from: Hellopplz on November 19, 2012, 12:25:08 AM
Quote from: CrowsFan on November 19, 2012, 12:21:47 AM
Quote from: Hellopplz on November 18, 2012, 10:51:04 PM
My game is how quickly can you delete a spam post/thread. My record is 40 seconds, anybody care to beat that?
Oh wait.... :'(.
Pff 40 seconds, I'd heard you were quicker than that, but that may have been in the bedroom... :P
I swear that was one time only :P.
is there something you 2 guys arent telling us :o
There was more than 2 of them there that fateful night ;)
Seems like things have gone quiet with the spammers, did m0nty do something or are they fooling us into a false sense of security.
Quote from: Grazz on November 20, 2012, 05:21:19 PM
Seems like things have gone quiet with the spammers, did m0nty do something or are they fooling us into a false sense of security.
I changed the sign-up process, that seems to have quietened them down for now.
Quote from: m0nty on November 22, 2012, 11:29:43 AM
Quote from: Grazz on November 20, 2012, 05:21:19 PM
Seems like things have gone quiet with the spammers, did m0nty do something or are they fooling us into a false sense of security.
I changed the sign-up process, that seems to have quietened them down for now.
Well done mate, hope that does away with them.
Quote from: m0nty on November 22, 2012, 11:29:43 AM
Quote from: Grazz on November 20, 2012, 05:21:19 PM
Seems like things have gone quiet with the spammers, did m0nty do something or are they fooling us into a false sense of security.
I changed the sign-up process, that seems to have quietened them down for now.
well done m0nty
Still think we need more mods :)
Quote from: Jayman on November 22, 2012, 05:45:46 PM
Quote from: m0nty on November 22, 2012, 11:29:43 AM
Quote from: Grazz on November 20, 2012, 05:21:19 PM
Seems like things have gone quiet with the spammers, did m0nty do something or are they fooling us into a false sense of security.
I changed the sign-up process, that seems to have quietened them down for now.
well done m0nty
Still think we need more mods :)
+1 sooner the better.