[wp-forums] Those annoying spammers

[Otto]

Make a list of the assorted accounts that have been created by this person
and send it to me. I can implement some more effective blocks.

-Otto


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:28 PM, James Huff <james at automattic.com> wrote:

> Well, I was thinking of an auto-delete-post blacklist for really lame
> keywords (like 8grid) rather than an auto-bozo blacklist. ;)
>
> ________
> James Huff
> http://macmanx.com
> http://automattic.com
>
> > On Jul 17, 2014, at 12:08 PM, andrew nevins <
> andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yes I was thinking about whether the spammers were actually hired guns
> and
> > were figuring out that creating a new account periodically gives them a
> > greater chance of their adverts being missed by the filter. But I did
> have
> > a little look at the most recent accounts, well I only looked at one of
> the
> > recent accounts and it was blocked, so maybe not, maybe it's just a bot
> > that creates a new account every time it's blocked.
> >
> > I do like the idea that you could maybe not blacklist but b-tag all
> people
> > when they post using particular keywords.
> >
> >
> >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 6:57 PM, James Huff <james at automattic.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I doubt they'll ever stick to one account, as you've seen. :)
> >>
> >> I bozo them, but new accounts seem to be appearing more frequently.
> >>
> >> A blacklist would really be nice. :)
> >>
> >> ________
> >> James Huff
> >> http://macmanx.com
> >> http://automattic.com
> >>
> >>>> On Jul 17, 2014, at 11:53 AM, andrew nevins <
> >>> andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi guys,
> >>> Just to reinforce what Jan's already said, and I'm sure he doesn't want
> >> to
> >>> keep hammering you about it, can we leave the 8grid spammers to one
> >> account
> >>> and not block it?
> >>>
> >>> You'd have thought by now that the spam filters would pick up on the
> >>> spammers, but it hasn't, and every time the new account is created it
> >> isn't
> >>> marked as spam automatically. The most recent account was fortunately
> >> only
> >>> created minutes ago, so I b-tagged, but we haven't been that quick to
> tag
> >>> them and they've been coming through to the forum.
> >>> https://wordpress.org/support/profile/greice-rolly?updated=true
> >>>
> >>> ~ By the way I blocked a couple of those accounts before too.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
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