More spam than usual?

I don't know, but I like that one person who introduced themselves on the Welcome thread and subtly advertised their truck tires over like a three-month period. Pretty funny the effort he/she went through. It's great when they say something like "Really liked the article", followed by pornographic links or something, as if the first part is going to prevent them from getting banned. Probably just bots or something, don't know exactly how spammers work.

khawaga

Does it have something to do with Mollom being removed? Did Mollom remove some spam automatically?

Yes. Mollom shut down - we installed a couple of other spam blocking modules, but they don't pick up quite as much. You should see a button to 'mark as spam' now - that will help the new spam module to learn what is and isn't spam a bit.

Mike Harman

khawaga

Does it have something to do with Mollom being removed? Did Mollom remove some spam automatically?

Yes. Mollom shut down - we installed a couple of other spam blocking modules, but they don't pick up quite as much. You should see a button to 'mark as spam' now - that will help the new spam module to learn what is and isn't spam a bit.

I can't actually see that, I can see the "spam" button which has been there for ages, but I thought that was the manual on, not linked to the new spam blocking module. Or is that now linked to the new module?

(N.b. for me it doesn't say "Mark as Spam", it just says "spam" next to "quote", "edit" et cetera, like it has for the past few years)

Steven.

I can't actually see that, I can see the "spam" button which has been there for ages, but I thought that was the manual on, not linked to the new spam blocking module. Or is that now linked to the new module?

(N.b. for me it doesn't say "Mark as Spam", it just says "spam" next to "quote", "edit" et cetera, like it has for the past few years)

That's because I didn't set the permissions up right, try now?

Mike Harman

Steven.

I can't actually see that, I can see the "spam" button which has been there for ages, but I thought that was the manual on, not linked to the new spam blocking module. Or is that now linked to the new module?

(N.b. for me it doesn't say "Mark as Spam", it just says "spam" next to "quote", "edit" et cetera, like it has for the past few years)

That's because I didn't set the permissions up right, try now?

still nothing for me, but I guess it might be a caching issue? I will check again in a couple of hours

I've noticed a bit more recently, for ages there was hardly any, or it was the more long-term stuff.
I have a "spam" button a "not spam" not button underneath (can't click on it) and a "mark as spam" button.

Do we just mark as spam and let it do its thing or do e delete it?

I think 1. mark as spam 2. delete would be ideal.

Thanks for doing this by the way.

I have it now. Thanks

I haven't noticed any more than usual. In the past, the entire 'Recent Posts' tracker would be full of spam threads. Haven't seen an onslaught like that in a while.

are we all supposed to to see a mark as spam button or is that just an admin/mod thing?

It's an admin/mod only thing.

radicalgraffiti

are we all supposed to to see a mark as spam button or is that just an admin/mod thing?

just admins. However all users should be able to see the "spam" button, and clicking this on spam posts will help us keep the site clean

I just cleared 80-odd spam posts from the audio anarchy thread, there were so many it was unreadable.
Are posts automatically unpublished when a user is blocked? (or can they be?)
As things stand quite a few spammers had made multiple posts on that thread. It would be quicker to ban them as a spammer and automatically unpublish all the posts.

jef costello

I just cleared 80-odd spam posts from the audio anarchy thread, there were so many it was unreadable.
Are posts automatically unpublished when a user is blocked? (or can they be?)
As things stand quite a few spammers had made multiple posts on that thread. It would be quicker to ban them as a spammer and automatically unpublish all the posts.

when I looked at that, to me it appeared that the spam posts were already all unpublished (they were shaded), so they were only visible to you because of your admin permissions.

Thanks very much for doing it though!

I know that but they were annoying me a lot

Has it been considered to authenticate users before they can post (either a one-time thing when they register, or make it where new members have to do a robot test before commenting)?

@zugzwang we already have email registration and some anti-robot stuff but a significant number of spammers are real people.