[wp-forums] Those annoying spammers

[andrew nevins]

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. :)
>
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> > 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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