Forum - View topicSpam Flooding
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Dessa
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There is currently a spambot flooding the manga forum. I'm trying to report the posts, but they can post faster than I can report. Which brings me to my issue:
I know that phpBB2 has a timer built in to limits how often you can make a topic (it's either make a topic or post in general, but they have the same effect). This spambot has managed to post 43 (at current count) spam threads in less than 30 minutes. What honest reason would someone have to make more than one post per minute? Reasonably, posts should be fairly well thought-out, and should take longer than a minute, so why isn't the timer at least set to 60 seconds between posts? Which brings me to issue two: Why is there a timer on when you can REPORT posts?! Yes, reports should be well written and explain your reason for reporting, but not all reports take so many words to explain. Like "spam" or "necroposting" or "speculation," just for a few examples. |
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Touma
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At least the flood seems to have stopped. There has been nothing new for over an hour, but all of those posts are still in the manga forum.
It does seem odd that having that many posts in that short time from one account would not trigger an alert, in addition to the reports that we made. I reported only three or four of them because I thought that it would not be necessary to report each of them. Maybe there is just not anybody around to do anything about it right now. |
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Dessa
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Oh, I get that there was probably no one on at the time. The point is, is that I can't think of any justifiable reason why someone would need to make multiple posts in less than a minute. So why isn't the built-in floodgate not set to at least 60 seconds between posts? And why IS it turned on for reporting posts?
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MrMonttu
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I posted on anime forums yesterday, but my topic never showed up...so, I thought it was a bug or I messed up something. Tried to change things and post again...but I guess I made things just worse. Can't see any of my topics anywhere lol.
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nobahn
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About those attempts of yours: Please read "Teh Rules." Thank you. |
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10420 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Hi Dessa, This has always been a challenge. A stricter limit would do a better job with spam, but it would also annoy more people. Currently the limit is set to 30 seconds (IIRC). I know that when it was set to 60 seconds before, a number of people complained, and I myself found it quite annoying. I wish PHPBB would give us more control over this, for example 2 posts in x seconds is okay, but 4 posts is 2x seconds is not okay. But it doesn't, so we have to compromise.
We used to get a lot of blank reports and we didn't know why these posts were being reported. Additionally, we found that the report feature could be spammed, and people would abuse it. SO a delay was implemented.
If you report one post and say "This user/bot is spamming the forum" it is vastly preferable compared to reporting every single post they make. In otherwords, you only need to report the user once. -t |
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