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Summer Tison

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lol, Summer, i doubt they even bother thinking you need a lil help for your rl job... its not a virtual job for them, but their RL one.. so if they wont bother for you, why should you bother for them ? lol.. That said, if you have some time to volunter for helping other ppl in their job for free, im waiting you at the library i manage in RL, hehehehe, i have some volunters already in the team lol... and you are lucky, we are closed till the 20th because of vacations... :smileywink:

Lol Trinity I would gladly help but I fear it's a Loooong commute for me each day :matte-motes-yawn:

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Trinity Yazimoto

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Charly Muggins wrote:

1am SLT.

Mary Milena has just logged on.

An hour after the spammers started.

There are over four pages of new spam posts clogging up the GD.

Yesterday the spam was around for six hours before it got resolved.

yes. 

 

 

i saw some of them logged yesterday and spam didnt stopped before hours after....

This make me jaleous... althought i really love my job, i want know to apply for a mod job at LL....

 

ETA : actually..... any job at LL ...:smileywink:

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Charly Muggins

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steph Arnott wrote:

I was just wondering how many accounts in SL are just for spamming or dead.Maybe there really only 200 people in SL and the rest are spam or dead accounts.

Added: It was just a flash thought, not a serious one

Well, apparently I have 190 alts.

So there's actually only ten people here.

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Perrie Juran

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Deej Kasshiki wrote:

Yep, it's pretty ridiculous that out of all the forums I know of this is the only one that seems to have no (effective) filtering to deal with the
daily
innundation
 
of spam.

I started this thread before I went to bed and I wake up to see yet more callgirl spam. Unbelievable.

 

Both the choice of Forum software and the outsourced support probably went to the lowest bidder.  Probably the same is true for the people who did the Marketplace.

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Artanis Nexen

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I do not browse the forums often, but yes there should be a way to filter out the escort spam.

I only have RIC'ed one of the spammers once, but hopefully they can figure out where the majority of these spams are coming from and then entirely IP block/ban them from getting on the forums or logging into SL.

I have no idea how this would work out, the only other choice is to block out people from making new threads if they don't have a certain amount of posts, and the person must have the posts approved by a moderator, and once they reach that certain number of posts they will no longer have to have a moderator approving the posts.

Anyways, spambots ANYWHERE are annoying, and I hope they can fix it.

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Freya Mokusei

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Artanis Nexen wrote:

I only have RIC'ed one of the spammers once, but hopefully they can figure out where the majority of these spams are coming from and then
entirely IP block/ban them from getting on the forums or logging into SL
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You must be new here, hehe. :P This is not a facility that LL are capable of providing.

The spambots here are pretty much the dumbest setups out there, my old AOL E-mail used to get cleverer attempts against it. Almost any bayesian or heuristic filter would turf these kids out in moments, LL's inability/inaction to implement any such filter (beyond copypasta flood detection, lol) is just a result of their unwillingness to adequately support their products.

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Phil Deakins

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Freya Mokusei wrote:

You must be new here, hehe.
:P
This is not a facility that LL are capable of providing.

The spambots here are pretty much the dumbest setups out there, my old AOL E-mail used to get cleverer attempts against it. Almost any bayesian or heuristic filter would turf these
kids
out in moments, LL's inability/inaction to implement any such filter (beyond copypasta flood detection, lol) is just a result of their unwillingness to adequately support their products.

A small point: They are not "kids". They are adults, and forum spamming is a business method that works successfully.

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Freya Mokusei

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Phil Deakins wrote:

A small point: They are not "kids".

Hahaha, well obviously. :D

Thaaaanks. I am skeptical that these cats (no, I don't really think they're cats) are getting effective results, but considering the low investment vs. moderate sales potential I wouldn't be too surprised to hear they're making a profit.

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