Why do spammer can reuse the same name again and again?
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I observe that the same CP account is used for spam again and again? How comes? And: can't we just block the IP address where this comes from - if a future user posting over this IP address gets blocked even he was not the spammer, he gets a notification to apply for un-blocking his account. Or: blocking the ISP to post on CP. Who wants to post needs to apply to un-block its account. I know, this is brute-force, but there must be a way to hang them by the balls... Andi
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I observe that the same CP account is used for spam again and again? How comes? And: can't we just block the IP address where this comes from - if a future user posting over this IP address gets blocked even he was not the spammer, he gets a notification to apply for un-blocking his account. Or: blocking the ISP to post on CP. Who wants to post needs to apply to un-block its account. I know, this is brute-force, but there must be a way to hang them by the balls... Andi
Andreas Gieriet wrote:
if a future user posting over this IP address gets blocked even he was not the spammer, he gets a notification to apply for un-blocking his account
But in that case, I think the spammer can un-block his account too.
In some cases, my signature will be longer than my message...
<em style="color:red"> <b>ProgramFOX</b></em>
ProgramFOX
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Andreas Gieriet wrote:
if a future user posting over this IP address gets blocked even he was not the spammer, he gets a notification to apply for un-blocking his account
But in that case, I think the spammer can un-block his account too.
In some cases, my signature will be longer than my message...
<em style="color:red"> <b>ProgramFOX</b></em>
ProgramFOX
I'm a bit naive in the sense that I can not understand why one puts so much energy into doing that. I don't think that anyone at CP follows such spam links - the sole purpose is to play the game on the cost of others... Disgusting. Andi
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I'm a bit naive in the sense that I can not understand why one puts so much energy into doing that. I don't think that anyone at CP follows such spam links - the sole purpose is to play the game on the cost of others... Disgusting. Andi
Andreas Gieriet wrote:
Disgusting.
I agree! But I think that's the reason why the spammer posts so much spam links. :(
In some cases, my signature will be longer than my message...
<em style="color:red"> <b>ProgramFOX</b></em>
ProgramFOX
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I'm a bit naive in the sense that I can not understand why one puts so much energy into doing that. I don't think that anyone at CP follows such spam links - the sole purpose is to play the game on the cost of others... Disgusting. Andi
I would guess that CP has quite a high Google PageRank. Since the site doesn't automatically add
rel="nofollow"to links posted by users, any link that survives long enough will have its own PageRank boosted by association. That could push the spammy site further up the listings in Google, which would mean more people visiting the page, and more money for the spammers.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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I would guess that CP has quite a high Google PageRank. Since the site doesn't automatically add
rel="nofollow"to links posted by users, any link that survives long enough will have its own PageRank boosted by association. That could push the spammy site further up the listings in Google, which would mean more people visiting the page, and more money for the spammers.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
See, I'm naive in that regard. Never bothered about the ranking and alike. Must be something like that that makes CP attractive to them. Any remedy available? Cheers Andi
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See, I'm naive in that regard. Never bothered about the ranking and alike. Must be something like that that makes CP attractive to them. Any remedy available? Cheers Andi
Adding
rel="nofollow"to every link in user-generated content (forum messages, articles, Q&A, profiles, etc.) might alleviate the problem, but the extra workload would probably bring the CP servers to their knees. There's also no guarantee that the spammers wouldn't find a way around it.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Adding
rel="nofollow"to every link in user-generated content (forum messages, articles, Q&A, profiles, etc.) might alleviate the problem, but the extra workload would probably bring the CP servers to their knees. There's also no guarantee that the spammers wouldn't find a way around it.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Maybe Chris is listening...? ;-) Can you add that for us, Chris? Very much appreciated! Cheers Andi
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Adding
rel="nofollow"to every link in user-generated content (forum messages, articles, Q&A, profiles, etc.) might alleviate the problem, but the extra workload would probably bring the CP servers to their knees. There's also no guarantee that the spammers wouldn't find a way around it.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
I like that idea if the hamsters could create a filter to apply the nofollow to suspect links. What makes CP so good is that a google search on a topic will return Q&A and forum results that are relevant. Just putting a nofollow blanket would eliminate that huge plus that the site currently enjoys.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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I would guess that CP has quite a high Google PageRank. Since the site doesn't automatically add
rel="nofollow"to links posted by users, any link that survives long enough will have its own PageRank boosted by association. That could push the spammy site further up the listings in Google, which would mean more people visiting the page, and more money for the spammers.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
I am no expert in this, but it is something along those lines. The way we have been jumping on them lately, they are not getting a lot of hits (judging by the View Count), but I remember one question in late December that got a lot views in roughly 20 minutes. That particular question had at least 8 spam answers and multiple comments with spam contents, so I assume the more spam links on a page, the more they attract people looking for free content. Soren Madsen
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