The Spam-Bots are KILLIN me, son!

[SAEalumnus]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I could be wrong, but it just seems like since John started using the advertising, the spam got stronger along with it. It's annoying.

It certainly seems that way. As a matter of interest, for as far back as available records go (3 1/2 years), there have been an average of 62 bans issued per month, but as of the time of this post, the most recent months have been 238 (Dec), 172 (Nov), 135 (Oct), and 65 (Sept). This year as a whole also saw 57% of all of the bans over the last 3 1/2 years. Not all of those bans were spammers, but I doubt the difference would be significant. What's really noteworthy is these are the numbers of individual usernames that were banned, not the number of actual posts that had to be deleted.

All I can say is, somebody must be getting paid if they're out in these kinds of numbers.

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by SAEalumnus

All I can say is, somebody must be getting paid if they're out in these kinds of numbers.

Well . . . since sign-up is a pretty basic (and old) captcha and posting requires absolutely zero interaction other than clicking "Submit" (plus this is a very common board type), it's pretty likely a bot could handle all of it - literally thousands of accounts and user names could happen every day on forums. There's no doubt the ads are contributing negatively - any hits or redirects will get the bots working overtime in search of more.

It'll get worse before it gets better if John doesn't do something. Which will suck for the volunteer moderators. Hope you at least got a Christmas card.

[kddani]

Bump

I log on usually pretty early in the morning, and always look under "New Posts" where there are always a gazillion spam threads.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by SAEalumnus

It certainly seems that way. As a matter of interest, for as far back as available records go (3 1/2 years), there have been an average of 62 bans issued per month, but as of the time of this post, the most recent months have been 238 (Dec), 172 (Nov), 135 (Oct), and 65 (Sept). This year as a whole also saw 57% of all of the bans over the last 3 1/2 years. Not all of those bans were spammers, but I doubt the difference would be significant. What's really noteworthy is these are the numbers of individual usernames that were banned, not the number of actual posts that had to be deleted.

All I can say is, somebody must be getting paid if they're out in these kinds of numbers.

I dunno, it just seems like 3 years ago when I was a new member, we never had this problem, nowhere near as much as it's happening now. We're even getting movie spammers. That's never happened. Movie spammers? C'mon. That's ridiculous. I mean, what's next? And I'm not complaining about the mods or anything. I think you all are doing the best you can, and that's all you can do. It's just that I was wondering can John do something about it?

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

That's ridiculous. I mean, what's next??

Spam spammers




MMmmmmm Spam....yum.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Spam spammers




MMmmmmm Spam....yum.

lol

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I dunno, it just seems like 3 years ago when I was a new member, we never had this problem, nowhere near as much as it's happening now. We're even getting movie spammers. That's never happened. Movie spammers? C'mon. That's ridiculous. I mean, what's next? And I'm not complaining about the mods or anything. I think you all are doing the best you can, and that's all you can do. It's just that I was wondering can John do something about it?

Sorry if I came off mad. I was just tired. We've got a massive storm (San Francisco) passing overhead and I got a 5:20 am thunder-above-my-house-wake-me-up-and-set-off-all-the-neighborhood-car-alarms-and shake the house salute. OYE.

[G-Kue 1911]

My sweet NJP could never come off mad....well unless you diss those....uuuuugh cowboys...but even then she rocks a lil!

Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

Sorry if I came off mad. I was just tired. We've got a massive storm (San Francisco) passing overhead and I got a 5:20 am thunder-above-my-house-wake-me-up-and-set-off-all-the-neighborhood-car-alarms-and shake the house salute. OYE.

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by G-Kue 1911

My sweet NJP could never come off mad....well unless you diss those....uuuuugh cowboys...but even then she rocks a lil!

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

Sorry if I came off mad. I was just tired. We've got a massive storm (San Francisco) passing overhead and I got a 5:20 am thunder-above-my-house-wake-me-up-and-set-off-all-the-neighborhood-car-alarms-and shake the house salute. OYE.

You didn't come off mad. I think you're doing a good job.

[chickenoodle]

Originally Posted by sudha

The Greek Life office serves the needs of the student members of the social sororities and fraternities, providing advisement and support to the governing councils, executive boards, and presidents of every recognized greek chapter to promote student responsibility for shared governance of the University.

They are getting good....