squenson wrote:What about temporarily allowing some volunteers to quarantine the spam messages?
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JohnSUN-Pensioner wrote:... I do not want to substitute the other cheek to these people. ...
Hagar Delest wrote:I've taken some immediate action (sorry, unilateral but something had to be done to allow new users quickly):
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Next step would be the moderation of posts from the Newly registered users.
The only simple hack (I see) for that process would be to copy/paste a previous legitimate question. One way to check would be a quick google search for some chunk of the post, to see that it isn't a direct copy from somewhere else.
Hagar Delest wrote:I don't think the newly registered posts go to the moderation queue automatically. There is an option in that group permission (in the forum's permissions) and it's off by default.
So if the spammer does want hyperlinks, it may abandon the process seeing that it's not parsed. But if he doesn't care, then we have to moderate those new posts.
acknak wrote:I guess the spammers could then flood the moderation queue; I don't know if they get paid for such posts.
acknak wrote:PPS: Nope. Registered: 22 Apr 2012 16:28 memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=53830
Appears in the "Newly registered users" group but still posted a spam.
I can't explain it.
kingfisher wrote:The moderation has to apply to more than the first post and longer than the first day. These people are posting a multitude of posts from the get go.
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