Obnoxious Spammer Infecting Guestbook!

jU · 2006-02-15 18:46:05

yes very

irspow · 2006-02-19 02:50:48

Uh, MathsIsFun. I just had a post blocked because it contained the word "sosialist" and an anti-spam feature saw it as "sialis". It is not the end of the world, because there are a myriad
amount of synonyms for those idiots. I just wanted to report this to you in case this was not what you wanted to occur.

Maybe instead of searching for a string of characters like "sialis" it could search for " sialis "? White space is significant sometimes. Note that the first "s"'s within all the quotes above should all be read as "c"'s. That was the only way I could get this post up.

MathsIsFun · 2006-02-19 22:04:13

Who would have thought! I didn't see *Sialis* as a part of speech! I will get on to it straight away, or in the next day or two.

MathsIsFun · 2006-02-20 11:45:26

Look! I said socialist!

irspow · 2006-02-20 13:50:12

Thank you for responding so quickly. I understood what was going on, so I just wanted to point out that side effect. Obviously the forum is again capable of calling socialists socialists agian. Good work MathsIsFun!

Ninja 101 · 2006-02-22 01:11:29

Comrade stalin salutes you!

irspow · 2006-02-22 09:22:39

Comrade Stalin is long dead thank God. Hopefully, sometime soon, the rest of the idiots who believe in the garbage he spouted will be rotting along side of him. Sadly, there are far too many still alive in my home country. Which makes me wonder why we even teach history in school if no one is going to learn anything from it anyway.

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Not that Stalin was the first idiot not to understand human nature. I personally think that Plato is the first identifiable idiot to spout communist/socialist drivel. "The Republic" is still circulating around the "intellectual" circuit to great applause. Their ideas didn't work then, they don't work now, and they never will work as long as we remain human beings.

Some pompous megalomaniac always seems to come along and try it again though.

Last edited by irspow (2006-02-22 09:29:56)

Ninja 101 · 2006-02-22 20:44:57

WHAT!!!!!
just because he was a communist!

levitra · 2006-02-27 06:10:30

[This was another page of links trying to sell questionable substances. It is now this.]

prozac · 2006-02-27 18:54:03

[Yet another message to try and make us buy the stuff.]

prozac · 2006-02-28 21:17:16

[bleh bleh bleh]

jU · 2006-03-01 20:45:26

tis is silly

Tigeree · 2006-03-01 21:12:01

very

MathsIsFun · 2006-03-01 21:16:16

Thanks for the pr*zac and l*vitra info, I have put blocks on those words now.

Tigeree · 2006-03-01 21:20:47

omg

Tigeree · 2006-03-01 21:22:46

i don't get that

Daniel Rodrigue · 2006-03-03 03:31:44

[Links removed, this time about ambien.]

justlookingforthemoment · 2006-03-03 09:09:19

We have three posts in various topics like the above. What shall we do? Another word censor? They seem to be streaming in.

ashwil · 2006-03-03 09:23:57

As a purely optimistic step, I contacted this company today. Believe it or not, they actually have an anti-spam hotline (which, of course, is just an admission that they use spam in the first place). I explained that this forum has many young members who are highly unlikely to require their products and that, as well as not getting any sales, they are disrupting an educational site. Let's see if they have a conscience???

justlookingforthemoment · 2006-03-03 09:32:33

See also: More spam. I changed the name.

Patrick · 2006-03-03 09:34:48

Why don't you just disable guests?

MathsIsFun · 2006-03-03 10:15:50

ashwil wrote:

... I explained that this forum has many young members who are highly unlikely to require their products and that, as well as not getting any sales, they are disrupting an educational site...

Well done!

Patrick wrote:

Why don't you just disable guests?

It may come to that.

Forcing people to join (by responding to an email) before they can ask a question is not ideal, though. And then the spammers may just join anyway - so it will be a bit like "escalation" in a war.

In the meantime I will continue to expand the list of "banned words" as they come up.

Patrick · 2006-03-03 10:17:13

yeah, I have to admit I never thought of doing what ashwil did.. Let's see if they're going to do anything about it..

ashwil · 2006-03-03 10:25:15

Are we all holding our breath? 57...58...59....

I wouldn't stop working on ways to block!

Patrick · 2006-03-03 10:28:49

MathsIsFun - It only takes a minute or two to register and active tho.. This doens't stop most people from writing on forums, it does, however, make the bot much more ineffective, and that's why most bots don't register on forums..

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