Spam filter improvements needed in Forum
| Case number: | 671076-986670 |
| Topic: | Server |
| Opened by: | Madde |
| Status: | Closed |
| Assigned: | admin |
| Priority: | 3 |
| Type: | Bug |
| Opened on: | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 10:04 |
| Last modified: | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 21:16 |
I think some spammers found a hole in the forum's spam filter.
The last posts in
http://fold.it/portal/node/761789
http://fold.it/portal/node/986222 and
http://fold.it/portal/node/986533
are all camouflaged spam (see the link at the bottom of each post)
![](http://128.95.1.228:8000/tracking_pixel.gif?events=scAdd&f=1111&wdata={"x":12, "y":11}){kind=tracking}
And in response to a news post ( http://fold.it/portal/node/986645 ).
There's little we can do; these all appear to be humans, with messages sometimes almost relevant, though I don't think any of them have a firm grasp of English or much time to read the posts.
At another forum I administer, we had to end up taking some quite onerous measures -- you would not be allowed to post links, images, or even create an avatar or signature until you had made 5 posts. But I don't think we need to be so drastic here yet. So for the time being, I'm closing this issue. The two spammers and their posts are gone.