Forum - Tech Help - Stop the spam! - Messages http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Forum - Tech Help - Stop the spam! - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:47:17 GMT Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:47:17 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from primaveranz primaveranz wrote:

New users could be blocked from sending without moderation for (say) 5 posts to check they are probably real. Most spammers would get bored and go elsewhere.


Glad to see they took my advice ]]> Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:47:17 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 primaveranz wrote:
Given the reduced circumstances that Digimania now operates under, the only solution is to give moguls moderator rights

I might be biased but.... What He Said]]> Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:45:01 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from primaveranz fazz68 wrote:
there must be some technical wizard on this site that can bombard the email addresses provided by the Baba ji spammers with some wonderful viruses and **** them up Big Grin

muvizu dudes.. ban some ip addresses or whatever but do something coz this is getting beyond a joke.
edited by fazz68 on 26/10/2014


Sadly that is not possible fazz.
Given the reduced circumstances that Digimania now operates under, the only solution is to give moguls moderator rights.]]> Mon, 27 Oct 2014 04:23:25 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 The spam - not including yesterday's
edited by MrDrWho13 on 26/10/2014]]> Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:15:02 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from fazz68
10 pages of garbage and shite.
edited by fazz68 on 26/10/2014
edited by fazz68 on 26/10/2014]]> Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:52:08 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from fazz68

muvizu dudes.. ban some ip addresses or whatever but do something coz this is getting beyond a joke.
edited by fazz68 on 26/10/2014]]> Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:56:05 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from oziabla
My thoughts exactly]]> Sat, 25 Oct 2014 22:53:35 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from ziggy72 Sat, 25 Oct 2014 21:17:06 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from Dreeko
D]]> Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:49:04 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from bigwally ziggy72 wrote:
What He Said It's always the weekend they do it - I guess they know there's less moderators around on weekends.



You must mean NO moderators at all. Short of assigning one of us users as a "weekend" moderator, I would think that there would be AT LEAST one Muvizu employee who cares enough to monitor the forum on the weekends and take care of it, but, alas...

Sleepy]]> Sat, 25 Oct 2014 15:14:40 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 ಠ_ಠ]]> Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:29:34 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from urbanlamb MrDrWho13 wrote:
I'd say he looks like a normal user, his message translates to: "Hello My Name municipality I live in Tel Aviv" according to google (looks like quite a dodgy translation).



here it is phonetically (hebrew was the first language I learned along with french dont ask me to speak anything about muvizu in it but I can still read it and translate basic stuff)

shalom koreem lo orat ani kora tel aviv (i think..)

which means 'hello I am kora from tel aviv'
my hebrew is very bad but it was the first language I spoke even though I stopped speaking it at 12 it sticks to this day..

(not sure about the name I need vowels to be sure which as you learn to speak/read hebrew you drop and vowels are only present in the bible and prayer books)

its probably a real user *goes back to lurking in the shadows*
edited by urbanlamb on 21/10/2014]]> Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:21:39 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from urbanlamb Dreeko wrote:
primaveranz wrote:
You probably want to get rid of iritberger as well looking at the chat list.


That Urbanlamb character seems well dodgy too



mm spam!



I feel old sometimes ^^]]> Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:38:46 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from primaveranz MotionToonStudios wrote:
Congratulations Muvizers, now he was breaking the spammer, but nothing else to do than come to bother us.

Again congratulations Moderators of Muvizu.


Not at all suspicious for a first post ]]> Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:12:04 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from MotionToonStudios
Again congratulations Moderators of Muvizu.]]> Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:10:21 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from primaveranz MrDrWho13 wrote:
Ziggy - It certainly looks like that, but I'll put him on the watch list until he actually posts any.
edited by MrDrWho13 on 21/10/2014


Oh good, does that mean we have some user moderators now? ]]> Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:57:32 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 edited by MrDrWho13 on 21/10/2014]]> Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:30:21 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from ziggy72 MrDrWho13 wrote:
I'd say he looks like a normal user, his message translates to: "Hello My Name municipality I live in Tel Aviv" according to google (looks like quite a dodgy translation).

I think spammer - I think he didn't put his dummy name and municipality into the spam program, so we see the default.]]> Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:22:51 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from ziggy72 Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:18:52 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from fazz68 primaveranz wrote:
מיין כאַווערקראַפט איז פול פון ילז



ווי טשיקאַווע, מייַן האט קאַסטערד דריפּינג פון די סוף]]> Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:57:40 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from Dreeko primaveranz wrote:
You probably want to get rid of iritberger as well looking at the chat list.


That Urbanlamb character seems well dodgy too ]]> Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:55:16 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from primaveranz מיין כאַווערקראַפט איז פול פון ילז]]> Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:51:19 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:39:20 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from primaveranz Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:27:33 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:24:53 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from Dreeko Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:23:40 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from muvizu_chap Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:47:14 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from Dreeko MrDrWho13 wrote:
ziggy72 wrote:
Not quite - the same spammers have put something up on the Assets page as well.

Wow I'm almost impressed.



Hahaha!

I was under the impression that the assets had to be sanctioned in the same way that the videos have to be.

So who was the numpty that gave it the green light then?!

Someone is going to have a sore arse tomorrow lol!

D]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2014 21:08:53 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 ziggy72 wrote:
Not quite - the same spammers have put something up on the Assets page as well.

Wow I'm almost impressed.]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2014 20:57:03 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from ziggy72 Mon, 20 Oct 2014 19:38:02 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from Dreeko
Die die die!]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:37:47 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from Dreeko oziabla wrote:
And another round...

Digimania - I think you really need to appoint additional mods now.


What happened to muvizu chap? I thought he was the newly appointed mod to deal with crap like this?]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:54:11 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from oziabla
Digimania - I think you really need to appoint additional mods now.]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:58:26 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from primaveranz BrianGray wrote:
Perfect Quote Mysto. I think the Spammers should be booted from Muvizu.


They probably are when a mod finally reacts, but the spammer just create a new fake ID. Blacklisting IP address ranges is a bit more effective but even then the more determined ones can use anonymising software to get around that. New users could be blocked from sending without moderation for (say) 5 posts to check they are probably real. Most spammers would get bored and go elsewhere.
But of course, without regular moderation you will always get these "floods" happening. So Oziabla's original suggestion is the most effective, give mod permissions to a few trusted users in different time zones and just nuke the verminous little scumbags as soon as they raise their repulsive little heads ]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2014 01:41:37 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from BrianGray
Brian]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:35:54 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from fazz68 mysto wrote:
From the words of the old Monty Python sketch, "I DON'T LIKE SPAM!!!!"


im quite partial to a spam fritter. many many moons ago after a good drink in the local, a spam fritter in a crusty bread roll from the chippie went down a treat Big Grin

then came back up again the next day.....]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:33:57 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from mysto Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:23:07 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from fazz68
the thing is, does anyone actually read the spam and think "oh that sounds good, i think i'll check it out" probably not. so whats the point?]]> Sun, 19 Oct 2014 23:55:06 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from oziabla
*sigh*]]> Sun, 19 Oct 2014 23:37:39 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 ]]> Mon, 06 Oct 2014 16:15:18 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from ziggy72 It's always the weekend they do it - I guess they know there's less moderators around on weekends.]]> Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:02:08 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3865-stop-the-spam.aspx Message from oziabla
Surely there is a long-timer user (or four) that you can give forum moderation rights to.

In the last few hours we have had 10 new spam posts.]]> Mon, 06 Oct 2014 07:33:47 GMT