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Re: The Spambot Discussion Thread
« Reply #240 on: December 21, 2013, 05:57:40 pm »
Yeah, the film/news spammers are everywhere on the Internet. It's come to the point where I get most of my news from them.
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Re: The Spambot Discussion Thread
« Reply #241 on: December 21, 2013, 06:44:39 pm »
If websites are deranked for spamming, couldnt they start spamming a competitors website to derank them?
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« Reply #242 on: December 22, 2013, 09:37:49 am »
I have a suggestion that is probably too far for this particular forum, but if you like it - feel free to mention it to SimpleMachines (link is at the very bottom of this page) developers or something.

When people register a new account - instead of Capchas that are mostly defeated by now - force people's computers to calculate a hash with some special properties (string of zeroes in the beginning) and submit to you their proof of work. Like Hashcash system that was proposed to combat e-mail spam in 1997. Here is a plugin for WordPress blogs that does this.

Additional 5 seconds while javascript on your computer calculates billions of hashes when you register an account is a hardly noticeable delay but would majorly inconvenience forum comment spammers that operate in bulk.
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Re: The Spambot Discussion Thread
« Reply #243 on: December 22, 2013, 11:38:26 am »
That's pretty neat, actually.

Keep in mind this thread is NOT for discussion of solutions to the spamming problem, just for discussion of the spam and the spambots themselves. We've had that discussion to death in the past and it's not productive.
Just reminding you of the rules in the original post.
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Re: The Spambot Discussion Thread
« Reply #244 on: December 23, 2013, 02:39:19 pm »
You don't understand. Another was posting some very subtle hash-related kitchen puns. You wouldn't notice unless you diced up the post and strained to sieve out the best morsels.
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Re: The Spambot Discussion Thread
« Reply #245 on: December 23, 2013, 08:50:30 pm »
It appears that I'd need finer sieves to parse his post..
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« Reply #246 on: December 23, 2013, 09:12:10 pm »
Quote from: greatorder on December 23, 2013, 09:03:29 pm
Another, are you ...another... advanced spambot?

I mean, we've had several, including that one which used several alternate accounts to make comments at realistic intervals saying the site it was good.

Come to think of it, did someone brew up a combination of all the spambots on this site and make them into Another? :P
Looking through his posts, he's definitely not.
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« Reply #247 on: December 23, 2013, 09:25:29 pm »
Quote from: Elephant Parade on December 23, 2013, 09:12:10 pm
Quote from: greatorder on December 23, 2013, 09:03:29 pm
Another, are you ...another... advanced spambot?

I mean, we've had several, including that one which used several alternate accounts to make comments at realistic intervals saying the site it was good.

Come to think of it, did someone brew up a combination of all the spambots on this site and make them into Another? :P
Looking through his posts, he's definitely not.
How do we know that you're not just one of them, posing in order to lend them credibility?
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Re: The Spambot Discussion Thread
« Reply #248 on: December 30, 2013, 03:44:46 am »
Justin Bieber... Huehuehue.
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Re: The Spambot Discussion Thread
« Reply #249 on: December 31, 2013, 03:41:33 pm »
One spambot has started nearly over thirty topics in a single forum. All of them for black magic and hypnotism.

Did it get stuck or something?

This same type of 'cure-all magic' stuff seems to dominate the advertisements in my local newspapers as well, oddly enough.
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« Reply #250 on: December 31, 2013, 03:42:15 pm »
Quote from: BlackFlyme on December 31, 2013, 03:41:33 pm
One spambot has started nearly over thirty topics in a single forum. All of them for black magic and hypnotism.

Did it get stuck or something?

This same type of 'cure-all magic' stuff seems to dominate the advertisements in my local newspapers as well, oddly enough.
This forum?

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Re: The Spambot Discussion Thread
« Reply #251 on: December 31, 2013, 03:43:01 pm »
Dwarf Mode Discussion.
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« Reply #252 on: December 31, 2013, 03:46:06 pm »
Know what would be funny?
Spamming the email address.

Of course, if it was actually some random person's address, that would be bad.
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« Reply #253 on: December 31, 2013, 04:03:16 pm »
It seems to be posting new ones at regular intervals. The timestamps on the threads are all separated by about 30 seconds.
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Re: The Spambot Discussion Thread
« Reply #254 on: December 31, 2013, 04:16:31 pm »
You are going to need many more redactions. The number is littered throughout the entire wall of text.

Any ways,
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