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Problems with porn
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No, not a thread describing my personal life, but rather a chance to mention what's happening with recent porn spam.
It now seems clear that someone is manually posting links to spyware filled porn referral sites, and they are doing this with spoofed ip addresses.
Although this is uncomfortable and unpleasant, and we are looking into possible solutions, I thought it would be worth explaining the principals upon which our website is based so that you might have a better understanding of what's restriciting our options in dealing with the problem.
TheSite.org is a website aimed at providing information and advice to young people, whether they have been long time members or simply first time posters.
As a principal we believe that posters should have the freedom to discuss whatever issue is concerning them, no matter how conventionally taboo, so word blocking isn't really an option.
They also shouldn't be forced to wait to ask for help, which may happen if we were to bring in any time delay on new posters, or manual verification of their accounts.
For this reason, and at this time, we believe that the damage done by one vile poster whose threads are quickly removed, shouldn't be allowed to damage the experience for all other posters; new or old.
So I'd ask for your understanding, if you see a dodgy thread resist the temptation to post in it (as this may only inflate the poster's sense of success), and simply report it, at which point we'll remove it.
I know this may not seem like an ideal solution but I won't see the principals of our service sacrificed to the behaviour of one individual.
It now seems clear that someone is manually posting links to spyware filled porn referral sites, and they are doing this with spoofed ip addresses.
Although this is uncomfortable and unpleasant, and we are looking into possible solutions, I thought it would be worth explaining the principals upon which our website is based so that you might have a better understanding of what's restriciting our options in dealing with the problem.
TheSite.org is a website aimed at providing information and advice to young people, whether they have been long time members or simply first time posters.
As a principal we believe that posters should have the freedom to discuss whatever issue is concerning them, no matter how conventionally taboo, so word blocking isn't really an option.
They also shouldn't be forced to wait to ask for help, which may happen if we were to bring in any time delay on new posters, or manual verification of their accounts.
For this reason, and at this time, we believe that the damage done by one vile poster whose threads are quickly removed, shouldn't be allowed to damage the experience for all other posters; new or old.
So I'd ask for your understanding, if you see a dodgy thread resist the temptation to post in it (as this may only inflate the poster's sense of success), and simply report it, at which point we'll remove it.
I know this may not seem like an ideal solution but I won't see the principals of our service sacrificed to the behaviour of one individual.
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I agree that words shouldn't be blocked btw.
If you have notice most of links posted have sexual words in them, a basic filter
killing all link containing sexual word will reduce the amount...
An other filter than would be good is one where it detect the number of space within the post as they alwasy make huge empty post to go with it...
IP blacklist is also an option...
sexual words in urls only...
not on the post so the text isn't affected, but porn url do not work...
or simply display them instead of making them clickable like others...
Depends even if it's IP is not static we can block an ip range which
is given to him...
Also there is way around which I will not say, let's not inform spammers...
Yeah ofc if it's just one poster. But I mean it won't prevent other spammers coming later and doing their dirty work.
Yep the trouble with IP blacklist is that you have to keep tracking them and
updating the list... Also here the trouble is not important enough to use such
method that will create more admin...
Killing porn urls is a solution that would be easier as it is just creating and setting up a filter...
Yep after all it's not like there is hundreds post everyday, it aint too bad so far...
Would you rather receive just one report, or reports from as many users as you can?
Nothing to do with IPs works, as from my experience a spammer like this would rarely post from the same IP or even the same subnet more than once, and chances are it's just a legitimate user's hijacked PC anyway.
1) will it cause problems for legitimate users?
Yes, although not often
2) what is the work around? how hard is it?
post your links in more messages in smaller batches. Trivial
3) if the work around is used, will things be better or worse than now?
worse
I think most spammer just register and spam, making it so you can post urls
after maybe 20 posts should slow them down...
Not really worth posting 20 posts just to be able to send few urls...
Also it's not like there is spam everyday, not sure it is worth doing anything for now...
I'd link you to it but the thread got deleted because of the porn
I'm sorry you had the idea first, didn't knew, wasn't
trying to steal your thunder
Please don't sue me for copyright fraud
Ops, sorry for the insult, since you are in here I should have assume you are as lazy as the rest of us
So you're left with manually fixing the stuff.