[Scummvm-devel] "Intelligent" forum spam bots
Max Horn
max at quendi.de
Sat Sep 19 18:20:30 CEST 2009
Am 19.09.2009 um 11:21 schrieb Torbjörn Andersson:
> Max Horn wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> recently we got more and more successful spammers "coming thru".
>> Worse, some seem to be semi-intelligent. To the degree that I start
>> to
>> be uncertain who is and who isn't a spammer. See e.g. this guy:
>>
>> <http://forums.scummvm.org/search.php?search_author=deanhanson>
>
> I noticed those, too. His signature just changed to one with a link
> to a
> commercial web site (as I suspected would happen), so I've moved his
> posts to Deleted Topics.
Actually, that's another point which we should clarify to admins/
moderators: When to move stuff to "deleted" and when to outright ban/
block the account :). Sometimes it's not clear what to do, I think.
Cheers,
Max
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