Mass spam attack?

Pokerface
Pokerface Posts: 7,960
edited December 2011 in The bottom bracket
Each sub-forum seems to be getting filled up with spam sales posts for various products all from one poster. Is this some sort of spam attack?!

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  • sjacob33
    sjacob33 Posts: 38
    It would seem that you would be correct pokerface most of it's eliegable so not very effective
  • Rigga
    Rigga Posts: 939
    Christ your not wrong! Bloody annoying!
  • kettrinboy
    kettrinboy Posts: 613
    Doesnt say much for the security of the recent forum revamp does it if it allows this crap to get through so easily.
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    oh come on, we all know how cyclists love suede ankle boots
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    I thought it was the title of a newly found Will Ferrel film.
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  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    Saw that this morning. Hope phpBB (the forum software) has improved since I last used it. You always used to have to tidy this sort of thing up post by post rather than deleting the user and subsequently all of their posts in one go.
  • Mad Roadie
    Mad Roadie Posts: 710
    Pokerface wrote:
    Each sub-forum seems to be getting filled up with spam sales posts for various products all from one poster. Is this some sort of spam attack?!
    indeed - i tried to report at least 12 threads first thing this am and they have gone already, are there more?
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    phreak wrote:
    Saw that this morning. Hope phpBB (the forum software) has improved since I last used it. You always used to have to tidy this sort of thing up post by post rather than deleting the user and subsequently all of their posts in one go.

    it has but we then have issue of posters replying to the spam saying spam or other pointless comments that then have to be removed one by one and as the reported post has gone then are a right pain.

    So Please report spam and do not reply to them as it is a pain.

    Ta.
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  • t.m.h.n.e.t
    t.m.h.n.e.t Posts: 2,265
    Deleting the first post in a thread should delete the whole thread in one go,regardless of replies.

    I don't know what your forum is like for mod/admin control but there should be thread tools and post tools options. vbulletin can do it,no reason why phpbb can't either.
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    that is not what i said. when we delete the users posts that is exactly what it does so any crap posted in the thread stays there ;)
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    nicklouse wrote:
    that is not what i said. when we delete the users posts that is exactly what it does so any crap posted in the thread stays there ;)

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  • t.m.h.n.e.t
    t.m.h.n.e.t Posts: 2,265
    nicklouse wrote:
    that is not what i said. when we delete the users posts that is exactly what it does so any crap posted in the thread stays there ;)

    Deleting posts and deleting threads is different :mrgreen:
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    I thought the BR was really slow for a time yesterday and thought it was down to spam - but apparently it was due to another glitch. On FB BR posted that the spam was bigger than they thought (60,000+ posts) and thats why it was off for the best part of a week - I honestly never thought spam could clog up a system like that. Shame on you Veronica Nicely and your tempting offer of 2 packets of Viagra.
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    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Shame on you Veronica Nicely and your tempting offer of 2 packets of Viagra.

    I read that as 2 packets of vagina
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  • kettrinboy
    kettrinboy Posts: 613
    Its back again this morning :evil:
  • Yossie
    Yossie Posts: 2,600
    If anything, it messed with my head - I popped on to Workshop to tell someone to throw their Ultremos into next doors garden and to use a torque wrench - the next I knew its a list of Ugg boots and vaginas.

    Thought I'd stumbled into the average small English town's market stall list, but it seems thats its a bigger force at work here.
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    T.M.H.N.E.T wrote:
    nicklouse wrote:
    that is not what i said. when we delete the users posts that is exactly what it does so any crap posted in the thread stays there ;)

    Deleting posts and deleting threads is different :mrgreen:

    Well done we know that but as it is not an option........
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    Yossie wrote:
    If anything, it messed with my head - I popped on to Workshop to tell someone to throw their Ultremos into next doors garden and to use a torque wrench - the next I knew its a list of Ugg boots and vaginas.

    Thought I'd stumbled into the average small English town's market stall list, but it seems thats its a bigger force at work here.

    How much for the Viagra?
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    SloppySchleckonds wrote:
    Yossie wrote:
    If anything, it messed with my head - I popped on to Workshop to tell someone to throw their Ultremos into next doors garden and to use a torque wrench - the next I knew its a list of Ugg boots and vaginas.

    Thought I'd stumbled into the average small English town's market stall list, but it seems thats its a bigger force at work here.

    How much for the Viagra?
    Who needs Viagra when we've got girls in knitwear and lycra shorts?
  • t.m.h.n.e.t
    t.m.h.n.e.t Posts: 2,265
    nicklouse wrote:
    T.M.H.N.E.T wrote:
    nicklouse wrote:
    that is not what i said. when we delete the users posts that is exactly what it does so any crap posted in the thread stays there ;)

    Deleting posts and deleting threads is different :mrgreen:

    Well done we know that but as it is not an option........

    Crappy software tbh :) Deleting threads is a basic option!
  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    Chaps at BR...are there plans afoot to stop the repeated spam attacks? Perhaps something as simple as a two phase new user login process like some of the other sites (where one has to get authenticated before posting)??

    Notice we had another outbreak yesterday and then again this morning. I don't now about anyone else but I am beginning to go off Ugg boots, at least until they stick cleats on the bottom.
  • kettrinboy
    kettrinboy Posts: 613
    edited December 2011
    How come these spam attacks dont seem to affect Cake Stop, or was it on here as well this morning but i missed it :?:
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    kettrinboy wrote:
    How come these spam attacks dont seem to affect Cake Stop, or was it on here as well but i missed it :?:

    I noticed that, Pro Race is mashed up this morning though. :(
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  • kettrinboy
    kettrinboy Posts: 613
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    kettrinboy wrote:
    How come these spam attacks dont seem to affect Cake Stop, or was it on here as well but i missed it :?:

    I noticed that, Pro Race is mashed up this morning though. :(
    perhaps the spammers feel sorry for us and just leave us a few forums to use, otherwise we would get totally pissed off with them and not buy any of their crap.
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    kettrinboy wrote:
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    kettrinboy wrote:
    How come these spam attacks dont seem to affect Cake Stop, or was it on here as well but i missed it :?:

    I noticed that, Pro Race is mashed up this morning though. :(
    perhaps the spammers feel sorry for us and just leave us a few forums to use, otherwise we would get totally pissed off with them and not buy any of their crap.

    True, innitially i hoped they would only target the MTB forums, but if that had been the case i wouldn't have got all of them 'Charm Braceletts' for Christmas presents. :lol:
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  • Mad Roadie
    Mad Roadie Posts: 710
    so ungrateful! you mean you dont want to buy your mrs a genuine Tiffany bracelet for $4.99?
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    It's back... on the sportive/ audax page.

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