Serious spam on SW
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@tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:
I reported some of the initial Chinese posts as spam and I'm just now getting notifications they were deleted. Though, I am also getting about 2 new notifications per minute of new posts, so they aren't really fixing the problem. All the buckets in the world won't help if you don't put a pin in it.
I got 21 during the last paragraph. It has to be easy to fix this.... how do they stop it each time? Do they just ignore it and it stops after a few hours? Do they block it and they find a new way it? It's odd how it keeps going, but isn't eternal.
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@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:
@tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:
I reported some of the initial Chinese posts as spam and I'm just now getting notifications they were deleted. Though, I am also getting about 2 new notifications per minute of new posts, so they aren't really fixing the problem. All the buckets in the world won't help if you don't put a pin in it.
I got 21 during the last paragraph. It has to be easy to fix this.... how do they stop it each time? Do they just ignore it and it stops after a few hours? Do they block it and they find a new way it? It's odd how it keeps going, but isn't eternal.
I figured they maybe blocked the IP addresses being used and the bots give up with that combined with their posts being deleted. Certainly it's completely automated so even a CAPTCHA would do wonders, and they don't even have that.
8 new ones whilst writing that.
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@tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:
@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:
@tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:
I reported some of the initial Chinese posts as spam and I'm just now getting notifications they were deleted. Though, I am also getting about 2 new notifications per minute of new posts, so they aren't really fixing the problem. All the buckets in the world won't help if you don't put a pin in it.
I got 21 during the last paragraph. It has to be easy to fix this.... how do they stop it each time? Do they just ignore it and it stops after a few hours? Do they block it and they find a new way it? It's odd how it keeps going, but isn't eternal.
I figured they maybe blocked the IP addresses being used and the bots give up with that combined with their posts being deleted. Certainly it's completely automated so even a CAPTCHA would do wonders, and they don't even have that.
8 new ones whilst writing that.
@tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:
@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:
@tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:
I reported some of the initial Chinese posts as spam and I'm just now getting notifications they were deleted. Though, I am also getting about 2 new notifications per minute of new posts, so they aren't really fixing the problem. All the buckets in the world won't help if you don't put a pin in it.
I got 21 during the last paragraph. It has to be easy to fix this.... how do they stop it each time? Do they just ignore it and it stops after a few hours? Do they block it and they find a new way it? It's odd how it keeps going, but isn't eternal.
I figured they maybe blocked the IP addresses being used and the bots give up with that combined with their posts being deleted. Certainly it's completely automated so even a CAPTCHA would do wonders, and they don't even have that.
8 new ones whilst writing that.
Oh right, might be a single IP address.
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Looks like they managed to get it stopped around 12:36PM EST.
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It begins again, guess they didn't fix it (no duh).
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Add ReCAPTCHA or something, jeeze!
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I don't see any of these "spam" postings. Are they located in a specific category or group?
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@Danp said in Serious spam on SW:
I don't see any of these "spam" postings. Are they located in a specific category or group?
They get deleted, if you had email notifications you should have been swamped. If not, their mods run around deleting them as fast as they can.
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@scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:
@Danp said in Serious spam on SW:
I don't see any of these "spam" postings. Are they located in a specific category or group?
They get deleted, if you had email notifications you should have been swamped. If not, their mods run around deleting them as fast as they can.
Yes, exactly, I receive 2,583 notifications so far. Plus also I posted a screen shot at the top of what it looks like before they get deleted.
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They were deleted users like crazy, too.
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You can get notified of new posts?
I've been using SW for several years and still not figured out how to navigate it.I don't really know how to go anywhere other than the 'feed'
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@nadnerB said in Serious spam on SW:
You can get notified of new posts?
I've been using SW for several years and still not figured out how to navigate it.I don't really know how to go anywhere other than the 'feed'
Yes, the feed option is one means, an email alert is another.
