The Chinese/Korean Child is at it Again

[D.H.]

I hope we can block postings with Korean characters, as this is getting ridiculous. Also, maybe we can block Korean IP addresses.

[Guest]

Who died and made you God?

Who mentioned God besides you and the ghost? Show me who.

Just pointing out some facts here is all.

[D.H.]

I even ran the stuff though the translator to make sure it wasn't relevant. This is just some text that some child copies from another website. It is garbage besides not being in the language of this forum.

[grayghost4]

OK 'GOD" guest... how about deleting some of the Spam ... show us how good a God you are !

[grayghost4]

they are getting better at it ... 4 to 6 new post a minute

[Guest]

OK 'GOD" guest... how about deleting some of the Spam ... show us how good a God you are !

Ok ghosty tell me... tell us all - just how you rationalize that your lack of self-control was caused by someone other than yourself.

Who was that said "Sunshine is the best disinfectant"? clue - I believe that was quoted during the signing of FOIA (Freedom of Information Act).

Who died and made you God?

It seems you are another who lacks self- control. You your pal LSAT, and so many of the "Regulars" here breach their trust and become censors and control freaks.

Please forgive me for shining sunlight on your behavior.

[Pugsy]

they are getting better at it ... 4 to 6 new post a minute

Yeah...5 per minute with 5 screen IDs and creating new ids in the mix.
He's figured out the way around the "you can only post every so often" restriction.
Shit.

He also chose a holiday weekend on purpose...more chance of forum admins being absent.

[chunkyfrog]

EGAD! THEY HAVE STOLEN THE FORUM!
Let me guess--ransomware?

[amenite]

How about instituting some kind of capcha/reCapcha type requirement for posting? That might be a step in the right direction. Obviously if it doesn't stop the board is done for.

[Pugsy]

No, I don't think ransomware. I think a spammer with some really good equipment bypassing the security hurdles.
We need to be able to block immediately at the source to slow him down and Carolyn is the only one with those powers and she isn't available right now.

I have sent her an alert as to what is happening. I can only hope she checks in before Tuesday.

He's figured out how to get past the number of posts per time frame restriction by creating multiple IDs and just keeps reposting shit as soon as the forum security allows.
He keeps getting new IDs...which means new email addresses and new captcha hurdles...which apparently aren't much of a hurdle at this point.

[Pugsy]

How about instituting some kind of capcha/reCapcha type requirement for posting?

That requirement is already in place for guest posting as well as getting a new screen ID...he's figure out someway to quickly get past it.

New member requests...require Captcha thingy to verify you are human...once he gets past that he has clear sailing.

If we did a captcha thing for every post...then you and I would also have to do it...kinda PITA.

This chinese dude has been here before but never this bad. He's figured out how to beat the system...so now we have to come up with a new system.
If we block his IP address...it's probably a proxy and it's easy to get new proxy IP addresses anyway.

[amenite]

How about instituting some kind of capcha/reCapcha type requirement for posting?

That requirement is already in place for guest posting as well as getting a new screen ID...he's figure out someway to quickly get past it.

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Nope, sorry but I just created a new account and all I had to do to prove I was not a robot was select the correct radio button. No captcha or recaptcha there and that is a problem. Seems to be the primary problem today and it needs to updated so that more than a simple checkbox/radio button is required. There needs to be recaptcha there or at some kind of additional factor authentication like verification code via email or something. Until there is we appear to be toast.

[Guest]

He also chose a holiday weekend on purpose...more chance of forum admins being absent.

If that is true it makes me think it is a forum member who knows and has some kind of vengeance. Maybe cuz they lost their "Spam Delete Button"? And wants to prove a point?

So who is MIA right now? And has the know how along with the temper/anger to do this?

[Guest]

I wouldn't be surprised if Johnny just turns out the lights here. And who could blame him. Find your own sandbox.

[Janknitz]

The algorithm for one forum I belong to won't let new members post for 15 minutes and until they have read a certain number of forum posts. Then it severely limits the number of posts for the first 48 hours. Afaik this has prevented spambots.