Forum spam

Francois Vanier

is it just me or the there a someone that spam the forum for some raison ?

EyeOfPain

Raisins?

It's clearly a bot, not an actual person.

Soundmonkey44

Yeah it's some idiot spam bot from India that won't go away. >:(

Sophie

Please report any spammer usernames you see to me and I'll nuke the threads and accounts. It's super easy.

Dragon0

Might want to look in this thread>>> http://www.funimation.com/forum/showthread.php?857-Watched-or-Not-Watched-Anime-Style!&p=12443#post12443 Name looks to be aghoribabajihh A pos tthey have is just giberish so probly spam. I would send a PM but it says your messae box is full so it wouldn't send it.

Sophie

Thanks!

EyeOfPain

@Sophie:

Please report any spammer usernames you see to me and I'll nuke the threads and accounts. It's super easy.

Is the "Report Post" feature fine for this?

Sophie

Yeah, you can use that. You'll only need to report one post per spammer account, though, since I'll just delete all their threads at once.

EyeOfPain

@Sophie:

Yeah, you can use that. You'll only need to report one post per spammer account, though, since I'll just delete all their threads at once.

That's what I've been doing, so cool.

Soundmonkey44

We should just ban the whole of India from the forums.

http://www.funimation.com/profile?userid=1120893#profile_overview

mike

its making my brain hurt
now they are waisting there time with an avatar

Dragon0

Its back.

Soundmonkey44

At this point I believe the best solution would be for Funimation to send their secret Anime army to India, confiscate the countries computers, and go to the u.n. Asking for a law where any country or state using spam bots must be punished by only being able to use type writers & watch cheesy 60s soap operas. :p

But yeah seriously this is getting pretty dang annoying.

dswisher

@Soundmonkey44:

We should just ban the whole of India from the forums.

http://www.funimation.com/profile?userid=1120893#profile_overview

I hate to be discriminatory, but considering this site seems to be meant for US and Canada, I don't see the issue banning an entire geographic location. However, there are only about a million ways to appear to be from somewhere you aren't on the internet.

Firefly

This spambot seems to really like it here. Is there anyway to tell if the IP addresses for these spam accounts are all the same and then just IP ban them (provided it wouldn't impact other users)? Or since all these posts contain the same phone number to set that up as a signal that the post is spam and prevent it from going through?

Gyt Kaliba

I just wish they'd stop striking in the middle of the night/early morning while I'm away from my computer, gah. It's like they have some personal vendetta against poor Sound specifically. :P

CJ

@Gyt Kaliba - Man, tell me about it.

I wonder what they would do if you tried to use their black magic service to stop spammers… Hmm...

EyeOfPain

@Firefly:

This spambot seems to really like it here. Is there anyway to tell if the IP addresses for these spam accounts are all the same and then just IP ban them (provided it wouldn't impact other users)?

There should be a way to view that (not that I have any knowledge of the current admin interface), but that doesn't mean this particular bot is using multiple IPs or zombie hosts.

Soundmonkey44

Another one has popped up. This is getting ridiculous!

http://www.funimation.com/profile?userid=1123945#profile_overview

neonwalrus

I saw this happen before a few months ago on another I forum I was frequenting; it was getting pretty bad, so bad that everyone on the forum actually had to change their passwords. It seems as though in the last few months there hasn’t been any spam bot activity on that particular forum.

What I’m curious about is why there has been an intense spike in spam bots in the last month around here. I remember on the old forum there was the odd one, but the problem never escalated to this level.

Soundmonkey44

I dunno why they are so interested in spamming us, but I really hope they stop soon! #knockonwood.