We have some Chinese people spamming forums with their certification links. We are looking for some ideas how we can block these spammers? Block based on IP address is not a best practice.
Any ideas? Please suggest here.
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Ibrahim ErsoyPosted Dec 7, 2010, 1:48 PM
Joke.
Lets add some Captcha Control.It wont defeat spammers but effective.
Sam HobbsPosted Apr 11, 2010, 3:11 AM
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The inner text of the element is the title of the link. For those posts that are spam, the href will be the domain they want people to go to. You can tell the post is spam because of the domain name. Your scripts could enumerate the links in a post (you know, as in my article about web site scraping) and if a link has a domain name that is known to abuse, the post could be rejected or quarantined automatically. It should be quite reliable with few false positives and should catch most posts that are not wanted. They might develop clever ways to get around this but it is easy enough to do that I think it is worth doing.
Mahesh ChandPosted Apr 10, 2010, 8:06 AM
This is what I was thinking. Implement bad words in the editor and add all spam words to the list. Editor will check if a post has the spam word, just ignore that.
Question is, is that enough?
Other option seems to be which everybody is doing, have a word verification.
Sam HobbsPosted Apr 10, 2010, 3:23 AM
Based on the two threads I did see, the links are usually for a few specific domains. You should be able to check the links for a specified list of domains, such as domains with ourexam or wiziq. I am not the complete domain names but I hope you know what I mean.
There are services such as The Spamhaus Project that provides various lists for filtering email spam. I don't know if their data is useful for forums but it might be.