help on new spam control idea

MMRIZE

@sdetweil
Have you considered antispam plugin like spam-be-gone, askimet,…?

sdetweil

@MMRIZE already have those installed

mumblebaj

@sdetweil Sounds good but there are still guys who resurrect very old posts asking stupid questions. I think I saw one yesterday that did that. That would up the rep and off they go and post their nonsense again. I know, not helping, just pointing out some observations. :man_facepalming:

sdetweil

@mumblebaj no… uping the rep requires someone to push like on a post
if u have less that 3 posts and 10 days, you cannot upvote…

but it takes someone upvoting YOUR post to increase YOUR rep… not theirs…

so, new users can’t upvote, til they get 3 AND 10 days have passed…
and if someone DOWN votes their post, their rep goes down…

and can NEVER upvote their own posts

yes, that is the escape… posting nonsense on an old/dead topic…
(with no links for my plugin to check)
I still filter those out manually

someone else has a plugin the geolocates the poster’s ip address… but we have valid users from all over the world, so that doesn’t really help.

cyberphox

@sdetweil I’m all for less spam!

BKeyport

I’m all for less spam, that being said, I don’t mind my nearly nightly marking of posts as spam and users as spammers. 😉

kayakbabe

how about allow nodejs.org and www.npmjs.com too.

kayakbabe

@kayakbabe It think posts that have certain spammy words or phrases could be added to moderation too like

now hiring
buy now
be your own boss
additional income
limited time
earn money
get rich
I enjoyed your post
You write very well
I offer you
I was reading this article and find it very informative

There are obvious ones that recur here but I can’t think of them right now.

Also how about no including links for new users until they make x number of allowed posts. I run some sites and we get visited by human spammers who will make two or three comments to try to get the posts with links to show. Usually it’s garbage, ipso lorem, or something that just doesn’t make sense. So I just moderate all posts that include links from users with less than 10 number of good posts. Or, I can go ahead a mark a user as moderation exempt if I determine them to be legit.

kayakbabe

What about reCaptcha required to submit a post for new users for the first x number of posts?

sdetweil

@kayakbabe said in help on new spam control idea:

Also how about no including links for new users until they make x number of allowed posts.

this hurts real new users struggling to get their stuff running,
worked for a couple days/weeks to get it to work and finally find this and post…
and if we put them on the mod queue then they might miss a whole day til their post arrives and someone can help them…