Reporting spam

[lwc]

Please consider adding one of the most important feature requests - a "complaint" button to each post (and possibly each user).

Until then, can your terms of service (which state spammers would be blocked) provide an alternative official way to complain about posts?

I'd like you to "killspam" the spambot (link no longer works) and its 2 posts.

Thanks!

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Thanks for reporting this -- We have removed those spam messages.
The right way to complain about posts is to either use this support forum or send an email to abuse (as described in the Terms of Use).

[lwc]

Caught another spambot - (link no longer works) - please block it and remove its posts.

Thanks!

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Thanks again.

[lwc]

You left one of its messages. This message uses Javascript, quotes an entire topic and uses a random line based of a pre-mentioned word.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

I don't see any problem with that message. Nabble blocks javascript, so all I see is a normal discussion. Please explain in detail what is wrong with it.

[lwc]

Do you think the same user is both a spambot and a normal poster? The fact that the exceptional message contains javascript should be enough. Besides, it seem like it just referred to random words from the previous post. More and more spambots do that, you know. Seems like it works.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

lwc wrote

Do you think the same user is both a spambot and a normal poster?

Sometimes this is true. It is common to see spammers sending messages on behalf of mailing list subscribers in order to get their messages through the list.

lwc wrote

The fact that the exceptional message contains javascript should be enough.

I checked the database and that message doesn't have javascript. It has style tags (CSS) and Nabble had to block them so that the post page can load without problems.

lwc wrote

Besides, it seem like it just referred to random words from the previous post. More and more spambots do that, you know. Seems like it works.

The text that "david holliday-3" wrote is "I would like to partipate in your test, Please inform me when you are ready to conduct it.". Everything else is quoted from the previous post. So where do you see random words? This sentence looks pretty normal to me.

[lwc]

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

I checked the database and that message doesn't have javascript. It has style tags (CSS) and Nabble had to block them so that the post page can load without problems.

In that case, please make it a feature request to write "CSS blocked" when it's a CSS that's blocked. That way everyone could know and not just admins with database access.

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

So where do you see random words? This sentence looks pretty normal to me.

Like I said, 2010 spam is not random per se. The random part is that it replies to random words in the actual text. If the spambot saw the word "test", it would write it wants to participate too. If it saw the word "bug", it would say something like "I have this bug too. Can you please fix it?". I'm not saying I can prove this specific case is like that. Just that it's possible. I am saying "logical" replies don't prove anything anymore. It's all about context. Don't blame me, blame technology...

[Hugo <Nabble>]

lwc wrote

Like I said, 2010 spam is not random per se. The random part is that it replies to random words in the actual text. If the spambot saw the word "test", it would write it wants to participate too. If it saw the word "bug", it would say something like "I have this bug too. Can you please fix it?". I'm not saying I can prove this specific case is like that. Just that it's possible. I am saying "logical" replies don't prove anything anymore. It's all about context. Don't blame me, blame technology...

This doesn't make sense because that message has no links to other websites nor products to sell. So there is no reason to delete it.

[lwc]

Again, in 2010 spambots also send legitimate automated messages based on selected keywords from previous posts, in order to not look like spambots in other posts where they do send spam. Kind of like planting a trojan horse user, if you will. If this is the case here, then it worked.

[lwc]

Another spam (plus repeated by a quoter - please delete the entire topic).

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Thanks, deleted.

[lwc]

Can you please "killspam" the spambot http://aiml.1580448.n4.nabble.com/template/TplServlet.jtp?tpl=user_nodes&user=160475 ? Thanks!

[lwc]

It seems you killspammed it but still kept the spambot itself.

Anyway, can you now please "killspam" another spambot http://aiml.1580448.n4.nabble.com/template/TplServlet.jtp?tpl=user_nodes&user=138373 ? Thanks!

[Hugo <Nabble>]

ok, done.

Are you the owner of that archive?
If yes, then you can ban users by visiting their profiles and clicking on "Ban this user" link;.

[lwc]

Does banning also delete the banned users' previous messages (i.e. "killspam" their history)?

Anyway, the archive's owner went AWOL. I'm the one who got that archive upgraded to V2 and constantly get its spam deleted. I'll be happy be take over and be the owner, if you were to be kind enough to do so. I'll then delete the spam myself.

[lwc]

Still waiting for an answer. Meanwhile, please killspam these spambots too:
http://aiml.1580448.n4.nabble.com/template/TplServlet.jtp?tpl=user_nodes&user=63274
http://aiml.1580448.n4.nabble.com/template/TplServlet.jtp?tpl=user_nodes&user=114173

[Hugo <Nabble>]

I gave you permission to ban/unban users of that archive. This should be enough to control spammers and delete their posts. Now you can visit their profile and click on "Ban this user". Then you will see the options available.

[lwc]

Thanks! But whenever humans actually replied, I can only blank the spambots' posts instead of deleting them (and the entire topic if their posts were the OP). If you click on the former spambot's link, you'll see what I mean. To top it off, the blank posts seem as if they blanked themselves whereas it was really me that bothered to do it.

So what you gave me is better than before, but I wish you'd just made me an admin. I think I at least earned the recognition, as without me that forum would be nothing but spambots by now.