Moderation reports

[Laurent]

Hi

Today I got many reports in my e-mail box from you guys, reporting spam on this forum. I'm glad you care about keeping the forum clean, and I thank you for that

However there was really a huge number of reports, my mail box was full of them. So, maybe you could send reports for less obvious moderation issues, and don't care about robots? Don't forget that I'm on this forum everyday, sometimes every hour, and that I always read every single post. If there's obvious spam, be sure that I will see it and eradicate it quickly

[eXpl0it3r]

One or two people as moderators would fix the "issue".

*runs and hides*

[wintertime]

Maybe you can let the forum disallow new threads with the stupid title "I am the new one", because there is another of these spams already.

[eXpl0it3r]

because there is another of these spams already.

to report or not to report...

[Laurent]

Anybody wants moderation rights to help remove spam?

[Nexus]

Why not? Would also be helpful to split interesting offtopic discussions to separate threads (which seem to occur often recently)

[Ixrec]

I spend far too much time here so mod powers would be cool.

[eXpl0it3r]

Wait what? Not sure if serious or just joking.

Sure I can help, but not sure if you would choose me.

[FRex]

There's another spam thread.

Anybody wants moderation rights to help remove spam?

Sure but only if it's under your control and possibly crippled to just hiding threads for you to later review.

[eXpl0it3r]

WTF some bots are on a spamming spree...

[Laurent]

I've added some anti-spam filters. Let's hope it will be enough.

[eXpl0it3r]

Nope

[The Hatchet]

Nope indeed!  There are already another dozen this morning.  Looks like the bots are set to hit any forum with "General" in the title at the least.  Maybe turn on required e-mail/administrator verification before a new user can be made for a while?  Not sure what else this forum software has for a backend against this kind of spam

[Nexus]

The captchas and the "What does the S of SFML mean?" question have been easily overcome. On the other hand, there are not as many spam posts as automation would possibly allow. It looks like a sophisticated attack specific for this site, and with active human help. Even people registering manually would be a possibility under these circumstances. Probably SDL developers :P

[FRex]

Maybe giving people mod rights wasn't such a bad idea after all.

I wonder how the bots crack the captchas...

I wonder how I crack the captchas at other sites some times, some flavours of them are so convoluted it's idiotic.

It looks like a sophisticated attack specific for this site, and with active human help.

Why would anyone do that.

(Quotes might not make sense, they're all Nexus' but he edited his post two times when I was writing so.. )