Spam Bot

theadonicus said:

From the user page, hit the positive/negative/neutral link next to Feedback, then click New at the feedback page's menu bar. Mark it as a negative feedback and make sure to say it's spam in the body.

astor is a basic member and doesn't have the ability to do feedback.

EDIT: an admin just took care of it.

I wanna report a spam bot too

It's this one: user #530339

Takeshi22 said:

I wanna report a spam bot too

It's this one: user #530339

That one's already banned.

Here's another one

user #532014

Got one too
user #532147

On the Adobe forums, messages from freshly minted accounts go into a moderation queue for approval. It did cut down on flooding. But that requires a lot of volunteers.

I'm pretty sure we don't want moderators peeking into the contents of every dmail that gets sent.

tapnek said:

I'm pretty sure we don't want moderators peeking into the contents of every dmail that gets sent.

I'm pretty sure most moderators wouldn't want to either...

This wouldn't be for every dmail, presumably, but just for ones from accounts that haven't sent any dmails before. Privacy violations may still be a concern, however.

Also, +1 for deleting the 100+ pages of spambot bans in the feedback section.

feline_lump said:

Also, +1 for deleting the 100+ pages of spambot bans in the feedback section.

I believe albert is going to hard delete all of those user accounts (ref issue #3301), which will have the effect of deleting all of those user feedbacks as well.

If you use Captcha, best hope the bots aren't Google-powered. Captcha gives those a pass.

tapnek said:

I'm pretty sure we don't want moderators peeking into the contents of every dmail that gets sent.

Someone beat me to it, but that's looking just at newly minted accounts. It would just stop messages going out immediately. Whether what works for Adobe will work for Danbooru is the Admin's call.

I still say that messages and other actions should be tied to account age more than anything, combine it with something that would track the types of messages sent would be huge. Something to the line of :

7 day account age required to send messages.

Implement a timeout feature for messages sent, older accounts have a lower lockout.

Would adding a captcha to dmail messages also help? It could slow bulk sending. Again excluding older accounts.

Sooner or later bulk spammers would look for easier prey elsewhere rather than spending money to go around it.

Just got a link in a DM from user #479350. I've already left feedback.

Edit - my bad. Just people sending links to upload.

Jarlath said:

Just got a link in a DM from user #479350. I've already left feedback.

That user looks pretty inconspicuous otherwise. Lots of useless comments, but we’ve got several users of that caliber.

Jarlath said:

Just got a link in a DM from user #479350. I've already left feedback.

Post a dmail permalink here please, or send it to mods, unless you've already deleted it. I'd like to verify its contents before handing out bans, user seems to be human judging by their prior activity.

I just got four five seven ten fourteen spam messages from user #540910.

Same username structure as the currently banned user #537659.

BrokenEagle98 said:

I just got four five seven spam messages from user #540910.

Same username structure as the currently banned user #537659.

Got one from that user myself just now.

Benit149 said:

Got one from that user myself just now.

5 messages here, too.