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Its getting worse

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/2958­18/#comment13314791

The guy https://www.lfgss.com/profiles/95723/ is spamming that rooferal link all over the forum.

Its a spam free for all up in here.

I'm in Santa Cruz.

Very bad signal out here, and flying this evening. So won't be back online until PM Saturday UK time.

I've nuked all the spammers I found, and the Deliveroo referral link guy too.

I'll add a big "ban spammer" button for hippy and others to use in future

Salutes

https://www.lfgss.com/search/?type=conversation&authorId=111930

Spam

I blame trump . I am confident velocio can find him.

You might need to summon @velocio or @hippy

Cheers - have done on some of the actual threads. Spam for breakfast?

Wow, whole of the first page of general is spam.

@velocio @hippy
Massive spam attack

Woah, it's pretty much taking over the Today pages.

Think it might be related to the new login pages?

@hippy or @Velocio
Thanks for tidying things up.

This thread is turning into a duplicate of this long-established (but dormant) thread. Suggested merge.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/296330/#comment13332762

Hasn't read the classifieds rules - on here and on facebook.

@Velocio @hippy

Several ID scam spam threads from @user70537

Is this baba ji again?

Thanks, banned.

Annoyingly it's a real person, on a VPN, which makes this stuff harder to automate against.

What I don't want to be doing is blocking VPNs from accessing.

Presumably you know which VPN provider?

https://www.ipvanish.com/

And I know the browser fingerprint, etc.

But... the fingerprint is probably not unique, as I don't do anything intrusive to make it so. Which means if I block based on that I'm likely to have false positives.

And in general, I'm pro-VPN, anti-surveillance... the obvious automated technical solution here kinda goes against both of those principles.

That said... interesting conversation at work now about whether sites could log the request identifier (cf-ray header) and later report "That was a bad request" where bad means "spam" or "L7 attack" or "harrassment", whatever. And then the system could look at those requests to determine the correlation at a more granular level, or across a huge number of sites, and if it is determined to actually be bad, could then mitigate on either a single website (LFGSS) or on the network (all CF sites).

I can't find much posted about this recently, but is it no longer possible for new threads to be posted to twitter? If the twitter thing isn't possible anymore, is it possible to view the new threads posted all through the LFGSS page?

Finally before the change to Microcosm there was a twitter style live stream of posts people were posting, is it possible to view this sort of thing again?

That feature went away, and you're the first person to ask for it in 2 years.

It could be done again, for the public conversations and events.

I'd need to write the code. Hmm, maybe best as an IFTTT thing to be honest, maybe I@ll write that instead.

Otherwise your best bet is the today page: https://www.lfgss.com/today/

I also think I'd prefer manual intervention rather than risk blocking false positives.

But this does depend on how frisky the culprit is and how much time we are prepared to spend deleting and blocking.

When I finish migrating the front-end to Go, I'll give you a really big button to ban spammers. 2 clicks, and it will nuke someone with great vengeance.

Manual intervention, but taking much less time would be great.

I'm going to make LFGSS great again.

For me the today page isn't as helpful because I need to click on each post to see what has been written. When there was the constant stream of things I used to stick it on when I was doing something mind numbing and it would give me a break from it every so often when I'd see something I was interested in, it also made a sort of serendipitous finding of threads.

Makes sense to do a IFTTT, if you could then that would be awesome. I thought about asking for it when I noticed it stopping but it seemed insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

The reason I like having a tweet or a page on here if there is a new thread, is I don't have to trawl through the classifieds looking for the new threads. I used to use the classifieds as a sort of constant stream of things I might want to buy, where now it has shifted to searching for particular things.