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Spam posts in general discussion.

Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 10:00 pm
by bigyihsuan
Currently, there are 36 threads from a user called bengalimolviji2 and 1 thread from mariopandez91.

The first post appears to have been posted at 12:00pm, EST.

Re: Spam posts in general discussion.

Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 10:22 pm
by keyboardhack
Spammers have been visiting this board a lot lately. There must(hopefully) be something that can be done to prevent something like this from happening.

Re: Spam posts in general discussion.

Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 10:31 pm
by FishSandwich
No need to bring attention to it publicly. Just report the posts and ssilk will deal with them when he has time.

Re: Spam posts in general discussion.

Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 11:33 pm
by ssilk
Since the forum is visited by spider bots, spammers have a good reason to spam. I deleted this weekend over 200 posts. It is definitely a bad situation. :)

As Fish mentioned: just report some (! Not every post, 1 is enough) spam of one user.

Re: Spam posts in general discussion.

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 6:55 am
by MF-
I disagree. This thread is a good idea.

RSS readers are usually built NOT to forget items that disappear.
That's a good thing, because the factorio RSS feeds can provide only limited amount of items.

Unfortunately it also means that
a) I have to go through those posts too, it's not just the ssilk/moderators.
b) I may not be notified of legitimate threads because the "slots" in the rss feed were taken by spam threads.