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i deleted some spam on ilm, but the search function seems to not be reupdating (coz of drive issues?) so i can't hunt down the rest. anyway, keep yr eye out.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

for ref here is the remains of the msg
'Top 13 most overrated songs on the blog circuit'

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

ip search brought that up as the only instance. Will keep eye out!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

here's another: Chromeo- Needy Girl

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

got it

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

I just noticed that one.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 28 July 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

huh, I just zapped another spam message on that same chromeo thread.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 July 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

Two more:

'Top 13 most overrated songs on the blog circuit'
Chromeo- Needy Girl

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

Got 'em, thanks.

has spammer unknown written a script to insert such messages into the database, I wonder?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

ha! mark p got one as well!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

it could just be a particularly loose-acting commentspambot.

if these things start to proliferate a code based solution may be in order. (a simple one would just to be to change the email, msg, &c fields to completely wrong names which would confuse a dummm spambot at least)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

argghhhh:

'Top 13 most overrated songs on the blog circuit'

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

got it.

asfdasfdfsadafsfdsafsa.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

keep an eye out for the chap putting a phone number on threads randomly: (7!3)553-!256

i.e. on this thread: How Do I Copy A Tape Onto My PC?

― gear (gear), Friday, 29 July 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

what i did, btw, was lock the two threads that kept getting hit from getting posts from unregistered users.

i think that it probably found those threads via some circuitous route rather than via the main ilx indeces, so for now that will hopefully shut it up.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 29 July 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

ok phone #s fixed for now too.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 29 July 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

More spam here: Pitchfork's Intonation Festival

Don't think anyone's noticed it yet.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 30 July 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes they did. Someone replied.

More poker spam on Momus Momus Momus

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

and also here

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

thanks!

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

is it automated?

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 30 July 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Next one --
What browser do you use?

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 30 July 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, that's the one Stan linked.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 30 July 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

ok I think they're all zapped up to this point, thanks everyone for keeping your eye out for them.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 30 July 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

It's back!

Momus Momus Momus

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 31 July 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

another!!!!

sounds like REBORE

― ghetty green (eman), Sunday, 31 July 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

zapped 'em and a third.

i'm getting so mad at this.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 31 July 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

More on What browser do you use?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 31 July 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

Is it worth editing the code filter so that only logged-in users can post links?

I've a feeling that this spam is very bad for server performance, given the effect that trackbacks seem to have on it.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 31 July 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

ok if this keeps up we need to rilly get some coders in there to patch it. i think these are commentspambots and i suspect that just changing the forms will do it. if not, maybe a hidden field in the form that needs to be passed thru too. if not, then we'll need to get crazy creative. given how goofy ile is, keyword filters are out. there are good ip blacklists to link into but those'll mean a performance hit, as will capchas from unregistered users, which will also mean a hit on posts.

bleh.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 31 July 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

one easy solution could be requiring capchas or limiting threads to registered users after say 5 weeks or something.

which will cut down on spam if not kill it entirely.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 31 July 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

If we have anything that makes it more awkward for unregistered users to post, we'll also have to make it harder to automate registration.

How about something that changes the field names on the form based on something that can't be predicted by the client, but is still easy to work out? For example: a server-side token that changes every few hours, and is combined in some way with the client's HTTP headers to produce a different set of field names for each client? If the server is up to it - and it probably is - add in a one-way hashing function too.

We have a benefit here in that the ILXcode isn't open-source, so there's a small chance that security-by-obscurity will work.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 31 July 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

Weblog Response: NYLPM

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

bah he beat me to it

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

The Juan MacLean - Less Than Human

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

got it.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

IT'S NOT FAIR!!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 5 August 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

i gots one i do i gots one!!!!!

― broseph, Friday, 5 August 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

Yet more on What browser do you use?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 5 August 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

May want to consider locking to non-registered until the spambot gets bored?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Unless of course this destroys ILX

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

there's like, three or so on "man bags" man bags

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

sorry, as if man bags didn't look weird enough typed out ONCE.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

I got the man bag spam, man.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

What browser do you use?

we need easier ip blocking for admins!

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Saturday, 6 August 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

Next:
man bags

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 6 August 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

got those.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 6 August 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

they don't all come from the same ip, i think! when our coders get back from vacation and dealing with more pressing matters, i think that the basic field name change wouldn't be a bad idea to try. it might not fool the bots, but it might and it would be really easy.

― Secundus Covarient (s_clover), Saturday, 6 August 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

damn, man bags AGAIN. (right after the pic of Chewbacca)

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 6 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

got it.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 6 August 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

maybe ILX should require you to set a captcha cookie to post not logged in?

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Saturday, 6 August 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

What browser do you use?

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Sunday, 7 August 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

The Juan MacLean - Less Than Human

3 here

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Sunday, 7 August 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

I suggest someone keep logs of this, locate the IPs concerned and lodge a complaint to their spamabuse people - it should work, ISPs take this shit seriously nowdays.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 7 August 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

four now on the juan maclean thread. jesus.

(xpost)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 7 August 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

got all those. fwiw, I've outright deleted a few, but most I've just altered so that we can go back and log all the IPs used if necessary.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 August 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

More on the bottom of this thread:

Robert Downey Jr. as 'Elton John' in New Video: Classic or "Weapon of Choice" Ripoff?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

And here:

Do trife bitches love money as much as everyone says?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

And here:

Article Response: Everything They Say About Soul Is Wrong

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

this just in: white people still corny


so are solutions being discussed or anything? i'm imagining (with no basis) that heavy mod activity prompted by spambots ups poxyfule factor maybe?

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 7 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I think that merely editing them doesn't affect the server/scripts any more than a regular post does. I'm not sure what the admins might be discussing, we mods are just zapping them as we/you see them in the meantime.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 August 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

ip ban possible/discussed?

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 7 August 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

can you judge a book by its cover? on ILB.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

yet another here:

Jeff Mills: The Exhibitionist

― amon (eman), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

they're coming in through multiple proxies, not sure IP ban would be terribly effective.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

bah i suspected that might be the case

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 7 August 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

and again - Article Response: Everything They Say About Soul Is Wrong

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 7 August 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

another one in the juan thread again, this time for diet pills. funny that it's only a few select threads being targetted - would de-indexing them help, maybe?

― haitch (haitch), Monday, 8 August 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

man bags

more diet pills

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Monday, 8 August 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

hm, I'll try deindexing man bags and see what happens--maybe the bot already has its teeth in it though?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 8 August 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for yr diligence on all this shit by the way, teeny.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Monday, 8 August 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

mother i'd like to fap

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 8 August 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

another followup spam post on the corny white people thread.

― gear (gear), Monday, 8 August 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

it does slow the server to lock threads to unregistered users only (you get the options after clicking "show all details") but it's probably worth it on the threads that are getting repeat spammed.

― Secundus Covarient (s_clover), Monday, 8 August 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

i wish i knew why locking jams the server

there's not a lot we can do about this except make the boards/threads only for registered users, as the IPs are inconsistent/proxied all over the place. i thought it might be a user with malware, but that sort of discounts that doesn't it?

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Who are the mods on ILBooks? can you judge a book by it's cover? still has some spam on it. (And I'm willing to mod either ILBooks or ILCooking if it would help.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 8 August 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

you can usually tell who the mods are on the forums by looking at the admin log!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

Alan, I think an interesting option would be to combine some of the DNS based block lists for open proxies [ http://www.au.sorbs.net/ ] with the apache module for this [ http://www.blars.org/mod_access_rbl.html ].

I know Andrew would have to do this but this would help a lot with open proxy abuse.

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

You'd be surprised, perhaps, by how little action ILBooks and ILCooking's admin logs have seen. Spam is still on that thread, btw.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

Photoshop/MS Paint Nike and other evil corporations ruining famous album covers

I'm surprised that thread didn't get hit sooner.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

deleted the text. the ip address that one came in from is unique.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Robert Downey Jr. as 'Elton John' in New Video: Classic or "Weapon of Choice" Ripoff? again

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

two on that thread now! spambot's getting pissy!


i've noticed the spambot is using the same names over and over so one thing i just did that may have no impact but i'm guessing couldn't hurt for others to try is register usernames you notice the spambot using (it's a speedbump at least right?). i just registered:

gambling
info about weight loss and diet pill
texas holdem
online poker

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

man bags

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

'nother one on the trife bitches thread.

― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

j blount gets full marks!

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

d'ya know, i'm thinking now that the ip search function isn't working. every post looks like it has a unique IP, even two consecutive posts from the same person. ??!!11 etc

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

Are any new posts coming up when your searching on any other field?

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

just did a search on name stars "texas" - nothing! what's up? indexes off or summink?

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

STARTS "texas"

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

I believe Andrew changed the way the search works. You'd have to check the cvs log on boardfunctions or search.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

You guys actually use CVS?

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

| 6085967 | 1 | online casino poker | [email protected] | |[spam removed] | 2005-08-05 14:06:59 | 216.136.2.253 | 4544449 |
| 6088187 | 2 | shake the party poker money tree | [email protected] | |[spam links deleted] | 2005-08-06 02:52:30 | 38.118.3.16 | 5742008 |
| 6089503 | 1 | empire poker | [email protected] | |[spam links deleted] | 2005-08-06 22:41:11 | 207.248.240.119 | 5415699 |
| 6089507 | 2 | free poker | [email protected] | |[spam links deleted] | 2005-08-06 22:42:15 | 62.193.231.242 | 5742008 |
| 6089955 | 1 | poker | [email protected] | |[spam links deleted] | 2005-08-07 03:48:47 | 148.244.150.58 | 4544449 |
| 6090194 | 1 | pacific poker | [email protected] | |[spam links deleted] | 2005-08-07 08:48:28 | 207.248.240.118 | 5415699 |
| 6090207 | 2 | poker games | [email protected] | |[spam links deleted] | 2005-08-07 09:00:40 | 63.97.24.6 | 5742008 |
| 6090391 | 1 | poker games | [email protected] | |[spam links deleted] | 2005-08-07 14:16:37 | 207.248.240.119 | 4544449 |
| 6096114 | 2 | online poker | [email protected] | | [admin - spam deleted] | 2005-08-09 10:57:10 | 203.172.200.210 | 5942033 |
| 6098699 | 1 | online poker | [email protected] | |[spam links deleted] | 2005-08-09 20:43:53 | 212.0.158.7 | 1496826 |
| 6099193 | 1 | poker rules | [email protected] | |[spam links deleted] | 2005-08-09 22:33:19 | 203.172.200.210 | 5415699 |
| 6099878 | 1 | poker rooms | arse@wagon | |[spam removed] | 2005-08-10 05:04:54 | 62.97.72.76 | 5995811 |

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

ah mind meld blount! i have already been doing that to disable using a few of the poker ones. did empire for sure

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

sadly, the same method failed to deter a certain other spammy unregistered persona.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 11 August 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

Think this one's been missed: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 11 August 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

liquor in the front, poker in the rear.

― amon (eman), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

removed the one on the clap yr hands thread, thx.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:31 (twenty years ago)

Looks like more here

Weblog Response: Proven By Science!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 11 August 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

the wall-mounted mailbox!!!??? wtf?!?!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 11 August 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

Here too
Weblog Response: The Brown Wedge

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

I've been zapping a few more, and the server seems a little sluggish--it's usually fine around this time of day. Are we getting pinged a lot by spambots perhaps?

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 11 August 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

Do trife bitches love money as much as everyone says?

This thread has been spammed again.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

aaaaannnd... man bags again.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 13 August 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

New York City is for sellouts

They're spamming the mod board now!

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 13 August 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

hey, i'm not online enough to be a regular mod, but if possible, feel free to give me mod priveleges to help with this spam removal.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 13 August 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Hooray! More spam!

― pr00de descending a staircase (pr00de), Monday, 15 August 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

(above is on ILBooks)

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 August 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

maybe disallowing un-loggedins to post would help, esp. as most of the threads revived seem to be quite done and dusted anyway.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 15 August 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

yeah I'm certainly fine with that, I just didn't know if maybe the admins wanted to see some more evidence. Noodles/alan?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

that's a board admin decision. if board admins want to lock out unregistered users that's their prerogative.

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/adminboard.php?board=1

just add a locked permission to blank username

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 15 August 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

i should say, board admin as opposed to SITE admin. you can do it per board.

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 15 August 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Alan, did you see my DNSBL reccomendation?

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Is it better to edit or delete these?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

edit. just replace the text. if you must, change the e-mail address, because that tends to be randomised anyway, but the name might be useful.

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

OK.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

i should say, board admin as opposed to SITE admin. you can do it per board.

I think what stevem was referring to is locking out unregistered users per thread, since it's generally the same threads that are getting hit. But I take it from your above answer that you're interested in seeing more?

Thanks for your help and efforts on this and other matters btw Alan!!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

thanks! i don't want to see more really. the board mods can obv lock those threads to unregistered users too.

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

yeh i just meant blocking unlogged-in posters from the threads featuring continuous spam, with empthasis on the fact that many of the threads revived seem old and redundant anyway (though maybe of interest to passing googlers granted).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Tell me all about 10-year-old you

surreal

― fe7 (FE7), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

ILB: can you judge a book by it's cover?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

Did you really feel "welcomed" to the jungle by axl rose, or do you think that was sort of just insincere, halfhearted graciousness?

and more

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

Got the ILB.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Walk like a panther, strike like a P(i)uma

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Photoshop/MS Paint Nike and other evil corporations ruining famous album covers

DIE DIE DIE

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Jeff Mills: The Exhibitionist

― fe7 (FE7), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Please leave some remnant of the Photoshop/MSPaint spam for context. (You'll see what I mean...)

― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

What browser do you use?

...again.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 19 August 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

mills thread fixed!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 19 August 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

I neutered the links on ths m$ photopaint thread.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 19 August 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

I think everything's gotten now.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Texas Holdem Spam:

Do trife bitches love money as much as everyone says?

― pappawheelie II, Friday, 19 August 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

more on mang bags

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 19 August 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Photoshop/MS Paint Nike and other evil corporations ruining famous album covers

FUCK RIGHT OFF

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 20 August 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm wondering if it would help to also elimnate the spammer username and email? They seem to contain spam keywords.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 20 August 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

i just meant blocking unlogged-in posters from the threads featuring continuous spam

Is this doable?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 20 August 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

yeah, you should see how to do it after you click 'show all details'

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 21 August 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

http://rbls.org/


Can some mods check to see if the spammer ips are showwing up on any of those block lists?

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Sunday, 21 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, teeny, I think I did it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 22 August 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Spam back up on Everything You Know About Soul Is Wrong.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 22 August 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

(Even if I got the title wrong.)

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 22 August 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

Got it, ta

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 22 August 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

Geez, now they're starting threads - and REGISTERING AS USERS.

Crazy shopping bags of chanel,gucci,hermes,coach,chole,balenciaga,fendi,LV,prada

Though I dont know if the above is related to all the other spam stuff.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 22 August 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

I think a mod should just lock the MS Paint thread now, as the spam is very persistent. And the thread's too big, anyway.

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

manbags again.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Again, does anyone think it would help to not only delete spam posts, but also the email addresses and names as these seem to contain key spam-ish terms and I'm wondering if the spambots are drawn to these threads because of them...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

drugs: A Spiritual Journey With Michael Sembello

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

seems reasonably obvious that this thread is just designed to create hits on the mentioned website

ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=6167285#unread

i mean, maybe it's just me, but i find it difficult to believe that the phrase "wonderful free video samples" is part of a genuine query.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 28 August 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

wow what the heck is phent3ramine?

I deleted the thread on weeing although it's funny the poster came back to defend the thread! I got no problem with piss movies, 'perry', feel free to start another thread that doesn't reference a specific website.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 29 August 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

ah someone got to it moments before me!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 29 August 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

It's a di3t drg that can't be sold legitimately online anymore.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

just deleted five(!) more p0k3r spams from the welcome to the jungle thread. Also de-indexed thread to see if it makes any difference.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I unindexed man bags about a month ago, it doesn't seem to make any difference.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

dang.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

dude change it to locked for unreg users!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

There was another one this morning, so I locked it tounregistered users and posted an explanation.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 3 September 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

hi, some afro-spam here:

Rolling 2005 Country Thread


(at the bottom of thread)

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

looks like a bit of a joke but I deleted it anyway.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

oh, i'd modded it to remove the yahoo mail addy, but couldn't see the harm

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

oh haha that makes more sense!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

More spam here:

YOKO PERMANENT STRAIGHTENING of HAIR

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

And another one:

SALE:RUSSIAN VIRGIN HAIR EXTENSION APPLICATION

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

someone is taking the piss a bit here!

LOOKING FOR MODELS FOR CREATIVE PERM, CUT

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

I've banned "Tamara" on the assumption that this is real spam, even though it's quite entertaining in a way. Happy to unlock her if people think this is harsh.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, maybe I was a bit rash, it looks like she's a real person since she answered Gareth's question. Maybe you could unban her, and only ban her for sure if she keeps on advertising her hair salon.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

SORRY PEOPLY! :( I`m very upset that I made you so angry... I never had this situations before and I regret that I done it! Please help me to take all my adds from your web site! (I`m not advertising my salon, I don`t have one, I just want to finish my assestments in college were is always a problem to find a models, this why I`m trying to find another ways)

― Tamara (Tamara), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

Eep, I was just going to say that Tamara had emailed me - people seem to be just having fun with the threads now, but it would probably be a good idea if you removed her phone number from the posts?

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

That seems fair enough. No more hair spam ads though!

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

I have left a token hair spam thread as a memorial and deleted the other two. Also, you're free to post Tamara.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Thank A lot for your help :)

― Tamara (Tamara), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

If only all random googlers were so polite!

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

So did you make an appointment kate?

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

Fall Fashion -- Don't Let It Pass You By

Spam, sort of

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

got it.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Now they're creating entirely new threads:

we love google!

we love google!

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

That person's hitting a lot of other threads too:

Bottom of US Dollar Coins - why the failure?

and

Bad experiences with doctors

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 104 for [email protected]. (0.10 seconds)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=iamtom%40hotmail.com&btnG=Google+Search

― amon (eman), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

we love google!

and now nicely NSFW

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I just found THAT out while at work grr.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

i've only just noticed that we're getting TRACKBACK spam. how long has this been going on???

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/trackback.php?pageid=10&uid=5529377

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

Good grief Alan. Is there any way to block this? Or is it not actually affecting the functionality of the site, perhaps?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

Plus, of all the weird, desperate things? WTF, generally.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

it's not in anyone's face, which makes it rubbish spam anyway. i'll look at the trackback code (and sql table) to see if there's something simple to be done.

it was only the number of trackbacks on that thread that caught my eye in the first place

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

inter-linking increases google rankings, no?

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

this is RIFE. something like 9000 trackback entries with links to spam sites.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

i'll add a block to not register the trackback request if the excerpt contains an html link "<a href=". i'll check the trackback protocol but i'm pretty sure that html should be stripped out of excerpts anyway - out of courtesy if nothing else

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

There's about 30 spam replies on this thread:

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

I shitcanned all the spam, added a note and locked unregistered users out.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 30 September 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

Also, many thanks for all the work you're putting into this, Alan. (& also Zack, of course) (something I've been meaning to mention for a while)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 30 September 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

hilarious gay spam on this thread:

NYU conference on "It Takes a Nation of Millions"

― amon (eman), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

I shitcanned all the spam on the PE thread. I'd have left the story up if it'd been x/d slash or suchlike, but it wasn't, so I dumped it.

Apologies for any out-of contexness resulting from this.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

the spam is so much better than the copycat threads.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

OK, I noticed that that old L L Bowen thread had popped up again, so I took a look to see what the latest crop of llb googler fans had to say, and I founf several instances of.....

LEATHER JACKET SPAM!!!

What next?!

I deleted them, tho I was kind of tempted to leave them up, just because of the wtf factor.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

Another lengthy gay pr0n spam on the public enemy thread. I deleted most of it, left a note, and have locked the thread to anyone not logged in. Again, apologies if this inconveniences anybody.

Spambots = bloody nuisance.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 7 October 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...
Poker spam in ILE: Weblog: The Brown Wedge

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 22 October 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Deleted.

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 22 October 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

spam that is. black poker. texas holdem.

― amon (eman), Sunday, 23 October 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

More here:

ILX0rs Go Down To The Sea In Ships

Can you remove, please? Thanks.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

got it.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

Thank you muchly.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
Here

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

And here.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

got em

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...
Bottom of this thread...

Another couple of ILX regulars have had a baby and it is called CLIQUE and it is in MANCHESTER and it is a monthly DIGITAL DANCE-POP CLUBNIGHT! COME!

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

done

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

Some on the Sharon Osborne thread, currently on ILM.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

got it.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

Another one on the same thread, this morn.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

indeed there was

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)


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