[wp-forums] Egregious spammer in the forums

[James Huff]

You bring up a good point about this list being public and also quite possibly watched at this moment, because some people are not nice. :/

Going off list with suggestion, Otto, Jan, Marius, Mark, Daniel, Kathryn, and Andrew. Sorry.

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> On Oct 7, 2014, at 8:17 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> 
> We already have that, and I'm not going to give you details on it because
> this is a public list. If he had been using only one IP, he would not have
> been able to be such a dick with the existing safeties.
> 
> But honestly, that doesn't help. Mostly, it causes us problems at
> WordCamps. :)
> 
> Consider the obvious network based stuff blocked already. I can add a
> blocklist based system (already figured how, just need to write it), but
> really that is a cop-out. Puts the burden back on the mods. Might work,
> short term, but it is still a Club solution. It's not a big picture
> solution.
> 
> -Otto
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Would it help if you look at the network address and only allow x
>> amount of sign ups per day? And block sign ups from proxy like glype?
>> 
>>> On 10/8/14, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>> Told ya so. Blocklists just mean they find ways to work around them.
>>> 
>>> Put a much stronger block in place for now, but suggestions and ideas
>> would
>>> be helpful for me.
>>> 
>>> -Otto
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Jan Dembowski <jan at dembowski.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> He switched domains. I really don't like that spammer...
>>>> 
>>>> Jan Dembowski
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>> Daniel Fenn
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