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b_b  ·  3065 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Good lord. Thoughts on bulk spam?

Sorry was busy all morning. Normally I spend the beginning of most weekdays zapping spammers with my magic powers. Not sure why we've had so many of them lately, but I'd say it's not been uncommon to delete up to a dozen spam accounts in a day for the last few weeks. Maddening, really.





user-inactivated  ·  3065 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wowzers. Thank you for using your magic powers, it's appreciated.

Part of this post's intent is to brain storm an acceptable way to take care of the issue easier so an individual doesn't have to hunker down and grind through deletions/spam tags or the like to prevent said madness. May well not be a viable option with the sites structure, but worth the shot, I'd think.

b_b  ·  3065 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, it's definitely not a scalable solution. I don't have a better idea for now, unfortunately.

user-inactivated  ·  3065 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Did hubski ever implement an email verification check? I think when I created my account it didn't have one.

I don't know if that actually helps, but surely there's some reason every website has one.

user-inactivated  ·  3065 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Did hubski ever implement an email verification check? I think when I created my account it didn't have one.

Presumably not. Didn't have to for Ay-Nawn or kantos. In fact, both accounts are tied to the same email. Pretty sure Ay-Nawn had to be inactivated first for that to happen, though.

user-inactivated  ·  3065 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I don't know if that actually helps, but surely there's some reason every website has one.

So they have a real email address to spam/sell.

user-inactivated  ·  3064 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Or to ask about unauthorized access, or if someone forgets a password, etc.

And it surely does something to deter bots. I dunno.

FuzzyWords  ·  3064 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think it can deter bots. One can create a single gmail account shared by all bots and then when registering do this: myspamaccount+bot1@gmail.com myspamaccount+bot2@gmail.com ...

All those emails will get redirected to the single account myspamaccount@gmail.com

FuzzyWords  ·  3065 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's almost done, the only I'm still seeing in global is this one.

b_b  ·  3065 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ask and ye shall receive. Not sure how I missed it.