Timeline for Massive Spam Attacks since couple of days
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| Jun 19, 2023 at 13:44 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Hi Catija - there have been a lot of very similar spam attacks on super user over the past few days [my search that eventually got here was via hunting for recent metasmoke activity… til I discovered there wasn't any]. Had to join this stack to post. Could you add new blocks on superuser for 'loan customer care' as that seems to be common to them all [all different, brand new users, of course] Here's a recent example - superuser.com/questions/1789921/… History - superuser.com/users/flag-summary/347380 | |
| Jun 14, 2023 at 19:34 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | @djdomi As a mod, often when we come to the site, we can destroy those account assosiated with the spam that was done. nuking 'em make the system check more the source of them and some info to prevent more from the same source, so it can help to restrain other spam wave | |
| Jun 14, 2023 at 19:32 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | @djdomi If curious check the link there for report done in the past; metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/posts (on spam you can see green check, it's user that added weight on smokey report) | |
| Jun 14, 2023 at 19:31 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | @djdomi smoke detector shut down is the biggest impact for the spam we see, as when it detect something it can be configured to make 3 or 4 flags on spam, thus it make the spam disappear fast, and to note, smoke got a chat channel that ppl in it can valide spam report and it add flags. | |
| Jun 14, 2023 at 17:36 | comment | added | djdomi | as always, it's a cat and mice game, that's how spamming and filters works. but rather report the user, the option i told about the stop or put it on a queue or delay wozld then in my mind a better option | |
| Jun 14, 2023 at 13:36 | comment | added | Paul | But how helpful is user reporting when they can just create a new user? | |
| Jun 14, 2023 at 9:25 | comment | added | djdomi | In fact I monitored the ppl in question and they pushed the same or similar text on multiple sites, multiple times. so yes it will reduce the amount let's say special to people with less then 200 reputation | |
| Jun 14, 2023 at 8:48 | comment | added | Catija Staff | We can prevent multiple questions in a short period of time but, based on my having deleted a lot of these, it looks like they're only posting one or maybe two with each profile, so I'm not sure adjusting that will actually impact these people, sadly. There's not a way to report a user. That's something I often find frustrating myself but we haven't built a solution for it yet. | |
| Jun 14, 2023 at 7:25 | comment | added | djdomi | and as a similar way, is there a way to report a user instead of a post, that's a spammy Spammer? and why can a spammer, that gets massive flags still can post? i mean if i would get 20+ spamflags why can still be posted? | |
| Jun 14, 2023 at 7:07 | comment | added | djdomi | hei catija thabks for the response and actions taken agree with you and your statement about magically work around about filter, but what could also be a afford is to restrict new people to ask more as one question per 6 hours or similar.. | |
| Jun 14, 2023 at 4:38 | history | answered | CatijaStaff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |