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Chris,
A new idea recently came to my mind. I quickly composed a short Tips/Tricks article with some initial proposal. Will you please review it and tell me what do you think. Certainly, this is some job, but I seriously think that it may turn more affordable then our current suffering from spam and disproportional effort, if you consider total losses in time and nerve.
Besides, the implementation may set new model of spam protection for a site.
We can consider further detail and possible variants of the idea.
Please see:
http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/519762/A-Plan-for-Spam[^].
Thank you for your attention for this matter,
—SASergey A Kryukov
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I assume you are asking us not to edit the posts so you can tune your anti-spam automation. In any case I am fine with that as I did not care for my efforts being as visible in QA as they were the other day (you never know if they come up with a way to retaliate).
I supported the idea of trashing the links in the posts because it seemed to keep the view count down compared to questions where they were left untouched. You mentioned in a previous post to SAK, that the spammers get their way when we leave the posts in a viewable state - they show up in Google and Bing searches.
Unfortunately, deleted posts also show up and for some of them you can bring up a cached view (try entering this in a Google search: ufc codeproject). I am not an expert on how long it takes from a question is posted until the page gets cached or if the spammers even get any business from cached, deleted posts so I would appreciate any insight on that if anybody knows.
BTW, I went as far as editing some of the comments with spam links before I deleted the comments. I did that because I have noticed that even after the comment is deleted and the associated question or answer is deleted, the comment is still visible through the member's profile page and I did not know if that shows up in a Google search.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Chris,
Please, what's going on? It looks like you personally blocked Sema Khan name from using it as a member name and/or friendly URL name, but he is re-appearing again and again:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=9743696[^].
I already sent you a note on that. Did you miss something?
Thank you,
—SASergey A Kryukov
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What I did was reactivate an account of his, change the password so he couldn't use, and let it sit. That way he couldn't reuse it since the name was already in use.
It was, however, quickly reported out of existence.
However, it's a moot point: blocking a name will not stop these guys for a second.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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How come it won't stop them? It won't stop from creating an account under a different name, but under exact same name... so many times... Apparently, it's possible to block forever...
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Message[^]
User[^]
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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The message is removed. What wrong was with it?
—SASergey A Kryukov
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It was completely incoherent and looked somewhat like what CSS used to post in the back room.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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http://www.codeproject.com/Members/tvfanatics[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Taylor-Goslow[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Tanalr[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/ufc366[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/ufc366[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/fkasodsad[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/ryuuseixandee[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/sajekale[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Lili-Gomes[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/bluerecoder[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/mnrsk[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=9721078[^],
… … … … to be continued …
Survived after yesterday's attack (or re-created accounts):
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Sema-Khan[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/balotpinoy[^].
—SASergey A Kryukov
modified 31-Dec-12 20:56pm.
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Agree; now, can you come up with the design of such Wunderwaffe? 
—SASergey A Kryukov
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The main problem is the location of the target. How about that. Civilians should not be hurt.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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That's a better idea. You are moving in right direction...
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Terminated the first, cleaned up its messages. Also terminated another. Reported messages.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Thanks. I have updated that in my message and added a new profile.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Reported the new one as well. At least the reports work in Q&A.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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