Spammers be gone

I suggest implementing a "mark as spam" button near each post on the forum. After a post has gathered x spam marks, someone on the team should get an email, suggesting the deletion of said post. The post itself might also be added to the email, in order to simplify the decision.

ven, 06/01/2012 - 10:11
ven, 05/25/2012 - 12:43

Done. I was reluctant to remove "Joe Jack", who registered three weeks ago and posted just that comment with _almost_ relation to the topic, but... a discrete spammer is a spammer :)

ven, 05/25/2012 - 12:37
jeu, 05/24/2012 - 15:45
mar, 05/22/2012 - 11:56
lun, 05/21/2012 - 08:45
mer, 05/16/2012 - 17:16
mer, 05/16/2012 - 17:14
mar, 05/15/2012 - 08:38

vod, you also need to change the status so the moderators will take notice.

lun, 05/14/2012 - 21:17
sam, 05/12/2012 - 21:24
ven, 05/11/2012 - 19:12
ven, 05/11/2012 - 08:00
mar, 05/01/2012 - 17:57
mar, 05/01/2012 - 15:31
mar, 05/01/2012 - 11:43
ven, 04/20/2012 - 11:19
mer, 04/11/2012 - 13:06
mar, 04/10/2012 - 21:29

You forgot to change status to active mYself.

mar, 04/10/2012 - 08:42
mer, 04/04/2012 - 03:37
mer, 03/28/2012 - 11:08

Big nasty spam attack today, as it was pretty intensive, I was able to test the effectivity of different captcha methods, and it seems the image captcha is still better (or they became tired of getting their accounts deleted and moved on to the next site, we will soon know).

I've also changed the setting to receive a captcha for a form even if one has already been solved; This will make life a little harder for users replying to several forum posts, as they will get a captcha for each comment, but it will --I hope-- make it even harder for spammers like those of today, that --obviously via scripting-- post about 30 comments 19 seconds after the account was created (sadly not an exaggeration).

Also, adding to the importance of this issue, I suspect that every time we use the "user delete" module to purge all the content from one of this spammers, if some of the comments were inserted in the middle of a thread or if some legit comments were added after the spam, the thread gets split in the forum, breaking it into "subject" (pre-spam comments) and "re:subject" (post-spam) threads, making it hard to follow this issues --and making the forum look messy--

Long story short: we have to get to a better solution to this spam problem, maybe test some other drupal captcha modules or find some other way of stopping this hybrid human+scripting spammers without making it harder for honest users to contribute (I know I'm captain obvious here :)

mer, 03/28/2012 - 09:42
mar, 03/27/2012 - 21:17
lun, 03/26/2012 - 12:27
lun, 03/26/2012 - 12:05
dim, 03/25/2012 - 22:29
dim, 03/25/2012 - 17:03
mer, 03/21/2012 - 15:13
dim, 03/18/2012 - 17:17
dim, 03/18/2012 - 10:59
sam, 03/17/2012 - 19:34
jeu, 03/15/2012 - 13:10
jeu, 03/15/2012 - 11:40
jeu, 03/15/2012 - 11:34
jeu, 03/15/2012 - 04:45
dim, 03/11/2012 - 21:43
dim, 03/04/2012 - 23:17

chacenbigo was a hard one...

dim, 03/04/2012 - 01:07
ven, 02/24/2012 - 22:58

for that user hari123 maybe someone should create an account with that name a dummy one. Just so they can't keep reactivating it.