Sukhov Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 26 minutes ago, limey said: or giving established users the collective ability to downvote users into temporary bans, that a real mod would need to clear. Yeah, I can't see that power being abused at all. Link to post Share on other sites
limey Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 1 minute ago, Gershwin fan said: Yeah, I can't see that power being abused at all. Thing is, such abuse would be fairly obvious & anyone attempting such shenanigans would be likely be subject to fairly swift official punishment, or at least, mass mockery. I honestly don't see how it could be worse than regularly handing effective control of the forum to a bunch of boringly repetitive spammers... Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 22 hours ago, MovieCollectorOH said: Stay safe out there in CA!! THANKS! CA. has 17 wild fires. There are 60 fires in 11 states, out here in the West. In addition to Spam, staying on topic, we need to address climate change as real, not just 'weather.' We ALL need to be safe out there. (Hill Street Blues?) TCM should have egg on their face for not knowing how to fix this NOW! Link to post Share on other sites
Sukhov Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 50 pages and counting. This is what the forum looks like right now- I guess it can be useful for anyone willing to learn Korean though. Link to post Share on other sites
sewhite2000 Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Oh God, it's starting again. Link to post Share on other sites
TopBilled Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 It's bad again today. Why is this still happening? Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Well until another lunatic sends us more. Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 5 hours ago, Gershwin fan said: 50 pages and counting. This is what the forum looks like right now- I guess it can be useful for anyone willing to learn Korean though. Korean spam Bet it contains Gaegogi. Link to post Share on other sites
MovieCollectorOH Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 You know it's bad when this is one of the top threads. This has probably been posted here before. Not Dr. Evil...the cans of spam. Link to post Share on other sites
midwestan Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 12 hours ago, sewhite2000 said: Oh God, it's starting again. They must be getting paid overtime. Second barrage coming in now! Link to post Share on other sites
TikiSoo Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 Wow 4 straight days of blanketing spam and 75 pages long this AM. I'm just going to respond to EVERYTHING I possibly can just to bump it. I'm still amazed the webmasters can't filter that. Link to post Share on other sites
cigarjoe Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 It happens at the same time roughly also, they need at least one MOD 24/7 on the job. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 Can the webmaster create a posting filter that respond Sorry, we can not post this. whenever a string of 코리아바카라 is encountered? Link to post Share on other sites
SunAndMoon Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 2 hours ago, hamradio said: Can the webmaster create a posting filter that respond Sorry, we can not post this. whenever a string of 코리아바카라 is encountered? The spammers will just switch to another language. Link to post Share on other sites
BingFan Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Here we go again! I hope our always-helpful moderator can clear out the spam soon. Link to post Share on other sites
TopBilled Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 I notice this thread was started almost three years ago. This is a long-running issue on the boards. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 2 hours ago, TopBilled said: I notice this thread was started almost three years ago. This is a long-running issue on the boards. Good point. I only use this message board presently. Have used others, years back, and never experienced this. Spam is nothing new. Fixing it shouldn't be such an issue. Still kind of think moving away from the forums.tcm.com URL might help some. Getting here from the main page is too easy. In another instance, I know of a site where there is a links tab. From there, you can enter the forum. It uses the same URL configuration we do, and I know it has a name, but can't think of it just now, where forum precedes the primary URL. What they have, we don't have, is the https. I have said before, TCM is not a secure website. Link to post Share on other sites
limey Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 53 minutes ago, jimmymac21 said: Still kind of think moving away from the forums.tcm.com URL might help some. Getting here from the main page is too easy. In another instance, I know of a site where there is a links tab. From there, you can enter the forum. It uses the same URL configuration we do, and I know it has a name, but can't think of it just now, where forum precedes the primary URL. What they have, we don't have, is the https. I have said before, TCM is not a secure website. TBH, obfuscating the forum URL would likely make no difference, as these forums have been targeted for years & already appear in google search results. It wouldn't take very long for the various web-spiders to find any new URL, anyway. As for the https protection - that wouldn't prevent the spammer activity either, since they're using fresh accounts for each new attack run, rather than hijacking existing account logins. Now, it could be argued to be a liability for those forum users who use the same login details for their other net accounts, but I'd hope you're not doing that anyway. Unless the forum itself deals in information that really needs to be encrypted (maybe, like certain FFMN threads ), encrypting the data on each page presented really doesn't do much more than slow the site down. Link to post Share on other sites
CinemaInternational Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Spam is back. Again. Return to Spamalot. Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 Has anyone seen this before, or is it a new attempt to thwart the spammers? I was just posting in one of the games & trivia threads when I received this error message: "New posts within a short time frame are limited. Please wait 13 seconds before submitting." 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jamesjazzguitar Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 This is a test related to any time frame to post: Link to post Share on other sites
jamesjazzguitar Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 This is the second post. Note: I tried this within 4 seconds and received a message New posts within a short time frame are limited. Please wait 21 seconds before submitting. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
TikiSoo Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 Yes-and there is a filter that SHOULD be in place that doesn't allow more than 3 NEW SUBJECTS per DAY!!! Honestly, does anyone need to start more than 3 threads each DAY? Most of us respond to threads already started. Link to post Share on other sites
SunAndMoon Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 2 hours ago, TikiSoo said: Yes-and there is a filter that SHOULD be in place that doesn't allow more than 3 NEW SUBJECTS per DAY!!! I second the motion. Link to post Share on other sites
Janet0312 Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 Oh, come on. Are you telling me that TCM can't eradicate this ****??? Link to post Share on other sites
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