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I just love sipping my morning coffee and clicking through 60 pages of spam :slight_smile:

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Hey Xeno,

i’m humbled you read Talk with your morning coffee. We’ll make sure we improve on keeping it spam free, so you can enjoy it without ploughing through 60 pages :wink:

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Was that spam? I thought I broke something when I refreshed and saw this.

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Guess they are still at it,

up to 28 pages today and counting :slight_smile:

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I agree!!!
every day doing the same

Only 3 pages))))

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NY Architect and Rendering Services vrender.com

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Hey guys @Vrender @Xeno @SOC3D, indeed pretty annoying to have to spend our precious development time on countering these Korean and Japanese spambots, but seems like for now we’ve shut them out. :slight_smile:

Brian

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The Mollom privacy thing is to avoid the Spam Tribe to attack us again, right?

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Especially enjoy the randomness of the title, 백경하는곳【FAFA82.COM】카지노주소후기 mosquitoes. Although 3D printed mosquito drone’s might be quite interesting.

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This is going to go on for a while, the spammer probably made hundreds of accounts to spam from.

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Yep thats right, however Mollom is suuuuper slow to respond to any support requests, perhaps our support tickets are ending up in their spam folders… no pun intended :-/

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I guess we are going for the record, up to 113 pages now and 7 hours and counting :slight_smile:

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I still find a bit odd, that after so many days of spamming, they still do not check regularly,

the latest spam attack started 10hours ago ?

wake up people :slight_smile:

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Good morning Xeno, we’ve stopped it for now, we’ll shortly delete all the spam posts. Besides our dev team is in Amsterdam so 10 hours ago most of us were asleep. :wink:

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Your devs get more than 8 consecutive hours off work? That explains a lot :slight_smile:

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Haha yes I know the luxurious life of a developer :wink:

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Hey Brian, I can understand being on Amsterdam time (like me) you have 8+ hours of sleeping time,

but if I look at the site at 8:15 in the morning (with my cup of java) and there is already 8 hours of spam, and it takes until 11:00 or 12:00 to remove any spam !

I would be a little bit more responsive knowing they are spamming like shit !

You do know that this will continue for several weeks, if not months.

the spammer probably has made thousands of accounts, and will use them till the end :slight_smile:

and I find it a bit strange that nobody overseas has an admin account to deal with the spammers ?

if the spammer start posting trojans or bitlocker links, then it would take up to 12 hours to (maybe) fix it ?!

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You know, Xeno is up, reading the forum, in front of a device.

If he/she was an admin, the spam would be hammered.

Just saying.

I would also login in the mornings and press delete on the blatant spam.

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Not even if they would pay me :slight_smile:

This is a business site, they themselves are responsible to watch out for spam.

and I am a bit surprised they react in such a laid back way.

I am also still amazed the site builders don’t account for the possibility of a major spam attack, sometimes it could make or break a site, and visiting a site covered in spam is not good advertisement, and a big irritant to the users.

This spamming is going to continue for some time, before all the thousands of accounts, the spammer has created, have been banned.

I really like to help others with their questions, but digging through 50 pages of spam is not my thing :slight_smile:

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Oddly my interest is quite narcissistic at its core. Based the responses, as you said, being quite unconcerned, it is clear that security and uptime is a bit of a passive thought to the admins. In the interest if keeping my hub customers happy I’d like to see the issue dealt with in some way. Clearly a customer who looks at the forum outside of the devs very brief working hours would run away from the magical spam that is this forum. In the end the spam attacks could easily turn into a site takeover. Hopefully 3d hubs isn’t storing payments or payment information on any system which is in any way interconnected with the forum. Of course, I’ve made the call to blacklist countries and sometimes continents temporarily to prevent out of control spamming for sites with more users than 3d hubs. Quick database queries usually turn up the bulk of the spam accounts and can offer bulk deletion and then more restrictive sign up procedures to prevent robots and increase the manual sign up time costs to where spamming is no longer profitable all prove effective. Vs just being OK with it.

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Agree, we’re going to step up our anti spam measurements.