[wp-forums] Those annoying spammers

[James Huff]

Well, I was thinking of an auto-delete-post blacklist for really lame keywords (like 8grid) rather than an auto-bozo blacklist. ;)

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> 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. :)
>> 
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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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