Spam prevention?

[Yperio_Bricks]

48 minutes ago, aFrInaTi0n said:

@Yperio_Bricks Thanks for the offer but our goal is to have a more automated way of approaching this. The latest patch included an option to use Cloudflares Turnstile service - this may be interesting and we are reading to try to go post-captcha :D

 

 

Gotcha  

[aFrInaTi0n]

But if you want to ask for getting a MOD, this decision may not ever be mine at all & may be it is the case our moderation staff team may be open for additional people. So please feel not stopped if you have any intentions in that directions from my posting please 

[MAB]

3 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

As a pirates regular I flagged some spammers, even if it was not my job.

It is not necessarily my job either but I always flag obvious spam. I think it is the job of users to report anything like that, then the mods can clean up.

[aFrInaTi0n]

@MAB Our staff team is very grateful for the reports from users, please be sure of that! They help a lot to easily get alerted and react accoringly.

From my sysadmin perspective, ideally our users shall not be asked to do anything in those regards - ideally we should have your backs covered already.. 

[Yperio_Bricks]

1 hour ago, MAB said:

It is not necessarily my job either but I always flag obvious spam. I think it is the job of users to report anything like that, then the mods can clean up.

I don't mean the "report" function. I still use that!

I meant I flagged the user account as spammer (using the powers of a regulator), so their posts would disappear and I guess they lost the ability to post. What happened afterwards I don't know, but I never got any negative feedback  I flagged them only when they started to spam-post in quick succession or when they posted nudes, which actually happend one time!

[aFrInaTi0n]

Site had a short maintenance for me upgrading to the latest version of the vendor - may have been part of some preparation for some better solution already.. stay tuned :)

[Jim]

8 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

I don't mean the "report" function. I still use that!

I meant I flagged the user account as spammer (using the powers of a regulator), so their posts would disappear and I guess they lost the ability to post. What happened afterwards I don't know, but I never got any negative feedback  I flagged them only when they started to spam-post in quick succession or when they posted nudes, which actually happend one time!

Thanks 🙏🏼 

[Murdoch17]

There's a bunch of spam threads in the General forum. I reported one twice, because apparently the first time I did so it didn't stick - I've learned having multiple EB tabs open while reporting deletes my report or something. @aFrInaTi0n @Jimmaybe that's a bug in the system?

EDIT: There are now two spam bots active. One is in this forum now too.

Edited November 21, 2025 by Murdoch17

[aFrInaTi0n]

Both banned.

I will give a more detailed update about our current situation later the day.

Sorry for the inconveniences already for now! 

[MAB]

1 hour ago, aFrInaTi0n said:

Both banned.

I will give a more detailed update about our current situation later the day.

Sorry for the inconveniences already for now! 

At least you are fairly quick to remove once reported. The same level of spamming at bricklink can take many hours to remove.

[aFrInaTi0n]

Lucky cases - there may be others where non of the staff is around to allow a quick remove.

That is why since yesterday I am testing out a rule for the user reports for SPAM (option to be selected in the report dialog) to be fired automatically - leading to Spamming-Accounts being flagged as spammers in an instant by the rule. I have seen this rule being fired at least once today, so seems it is working. (but nope, the exact ruleset may not ever be told to the users )

But as told, I may give a more explaning posting this evening / tomorrow about our current status.

[SNIPE]

Yeah I saw a bunch of these too, reported one per forum and it looks like most are gone now but a  few still remain in general lego discussion.

Maybe pause signups?

[Jim]

35 minutes ago, SNIPE said:

Maybe pause signups?

Yeah, that's what we are going to do. Go back to manual approval.