Obvious spam trouble here

magnora7 · 2024-04-23T23:33:14+00:00

Then they will just use USA VPNs and be right back at it in a few hours, and we will have blocked a lot of the global freedom of speech this site is intended for. So I don't see this as being a positive move in the long run, but I appreciate the idea.

magnora7 · 2024-04-25T08:02:46+00:00

Ok sub has been taken off of all, and I banned his 2 alt mod accounts that were clearly dupe accounts of his

magnora7 · 2024-04-23T23:44:55+00:00

Try a different web browser and it might work easier. Not turning it off though, the spam will increase 10x and destroy this website. We've tried it. Not an option.

magnora7 · 2024-04-23T23:34:33+00:00

You think it's bad now, it's 10x worse with it off

magnora7 · 2024-04-25T08:46:44+00:00

https://saidit.net/user/211/ got banned a couple weeks ago and started using his new account elonmusk7.

Couple weeks before that he was using https://saidit.net/user/844/ which also got banned for advocating violence.

3 months ago he was using the name: https://saidit.net/user/orgias/ which is similar to his other 2 moderator names in blackpillonly, which I just banned, oorgias and ooorgias. Clearly alternate accounts. Clearly all the same guy.

Before that he used this account: https://saidit.net/user/incelnigga/

And there's way more than just those accounts I listed, it keeps going and going and going.

This person is here to make a mess of this website. Look at the post and comment history for all these accounts, it's undoubtedly the same person, and they always do the same script and cause the same mess.

magnora7 · 2024-04-25T08:09:46+00:00

Thank you. I wish it was 1997 again and we didn't have this insane AI botspam problem to deal with, it's really doing a number on text forums across the internet. It has created so many problems for people trying to communicate.

magnora7 · 2024-04-25T08:07:40+00:00

Yeah I wish I could turn down just the timeout thing a bit without also turning down everything else. Unfortunately because we have the free cloudflare we can't make those fine adjustments as far as I know. We basically just have high, med, and low. And turning it down from high to medium makes the spam go crazy, like 5x what it is normally. So we kind of have to leave it even though it sucks and I hate it too

magnora7 · 2024-04-25T08:06:23+00:00

We did, 3 months ago, and it went terribly and made it clear to everyone why we need it.

magnora7 · 2024-04-23T23:40:06+00:00

They just keep taking on different IP addresses until they find one that works. I actually built a system that auto-detects spam accounts and blocks their IP, but they change IP literally every single request, to a completely different IP in a different country. It's indistinguishable from regular traffic, especially since so many saidit users use vpns. It's a good idea, but at best it would only reduce the spam by half at most, and probably only for a few months until they find IPs that work and then it'll be back to normal. I used to block huge IP ranges and whole countries back 4 years ago or so, but it literally did nothing after a few days. The person or group generating most of the spam can mimic any IP address, they're not just using VPNs. Literally the only solution seems to be to look at what they post and ban them for that, but that's exactly the game of whack-a-mole we've been doing for months.

Most forums get around this by having paid staff that reviews all new things posted and they hand out user bans constantly. We have volunteers working at their leisure... which means we will never be able to control the spam unfortunately. It is what it is.

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