Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99130 More actions · Answer 1

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Jeff Moden - Thursday, May 17, 2018 9:43 PM
Good lord! Have you seen the spam tonight? It has affected all of the top 5 or 6 forums on this site and there's 40 to 50 on each forum. It's just crazy.

I've found that if you report 3 of their posts they all (magically) disappear; guessing that there's some logic where users with high rep can force an anti-spam rule. There's was loads the other day, think I reported a user 9 times or something silly, as soon as one batch was gone, they started up again.

Got to agree, I do think that newly registered users might need to have slightly lower permissions; it's so frustrating to see an entire page of utter crap.

Thom~

Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246965 More actions · Answer 2

ThomasRushton - Friday, May 18, 2018 5:56 AM
Phil Parkin - Friday, May 18, 2018 5:24 AM
Still getting notifications ...
The most recent notification I had was from about an hour ago (at 11:52am BST)
I've not killed any fresh accounts since I posted above. I guess the mail system is struggling to keep up. Or someone else is also playing whack-a-spammer

I think you are right about the mail system playing catch-up. I'm still getting notifications, but I can see that the associated posts have been torched.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
- Martin Rees
The absence of consumable DDL, sample data and desired results is, however, evidence of the absence of my response
- Phil Parkin

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 3

Deleted more than 1000 spam mails and it keeps coming :crazy:
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Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246965 More actions · Answer 4

Eirikur Eiriksson - Friday, May 18, 2018 10:39 AM
Deleted more than 1000 spam mails and it keeps coming :crazy:
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Me too.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
- Martin Rees
The absence of consumable DDL, sample data and desired results is, however, evidence of the absence of my response
- Phil Parkin

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004366 More actions · Answer 5

Abandon yea of all hope. The SPAM is back again.

C'mon, Redgate. Time to get your junk straightened out. If you can't even control a forum, do you think new customers will trust you with their data? Think about it.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 6

Jeff Moden - Friday, May 18, 2018 9:04 PM
Abandon yea of all hope. The SPAM is back again.
C'mon, Redgate. Time to get your junk straightened out. If you can't even control a forum, do you think new customers will trust you with their data? Think about it.

+100
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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 7

4776 spam notifications and counting :angry:
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Unsubscribed from all forums until this mess is resolved.

BrainDonor SSCoach Points: 19254 More actions · Answer 8

90 notifications that three account that I'm apparently following have posted. The account names are obviously bogus and I've never followed them.

Steve Hall
Linkedin
Blog Site

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 9

Looks like another bad spam night now. User mfgdhtvghbt posting hordes of long messages in (I think) Chinese.

Tom

Thomas Rushton SSC-Insane Points: 22649 More actions · Answer 10

TomThomson - Sunday, May 20, 2018 7:08 PM
Looks like another bad spam night now. User mfgdhtvghbt posting hordes of long messages in (I think) Chinese.

Just had another influx...

Can we not filter against these? Surely there's something that can be patternmatched...

Thomas Rushton
blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 11

Reading the comments about the spam storm I'm almost afraid to go hit my usual "newest posts" button...

Thomas Rushton SSC-Insane Points: 22649 More actions · Answer 12

jasona.work - Monday, May 21, 2018 5:36 AM
Reading the comments about the spam storm I'm almost afraid to go hit my usual "newest posts" button...

Heh. It was OK the last time I checked, but if you find anything, let someone know...

Thomas Rushton
blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004366 More actions · Answer 13

I whacked 4 spam generating users last night... right after I saw Tom's email.

Still, this junk should never be making it to the forums. There should be some form of "Captcha" in the process of becoming a new SSC member and I don't mind something like that for everyday posts.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

DesNorton SSC-Insane Points: 24387 More actions · Answer 14

Jeff Moden - Monday, May 21, 2018 5:56 AM
I whacked 4 spam generating users last night... right after I saw Tom's email.
Still, this junk should never be making it to the forums. There should be some form of "Captcha" in the process of becoming a new SSC member and I don't mind something like that for everyday posts.

Perhaps users with <5 posts need a captcha ....

How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help.

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246965 More actions · Answer 15

DesNorton - Monday, May 21, 2018 6:22 AM
Jeff Moden - Monday, May 21, 2018 5:56 AM
I whacked 4 spam generating users last night... right after I saw Tom's email.
Still, this junk should never be making it to the forums. There should be some form of "Captcha" in the process of becoming a new SSC member and I don't mind something like that for everyday posts.
Perhaps users with <5 posts need a captcha ....

Another idea would be to add a time constraint: users who have been members for < 1 month, perhaps.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
- Martin Rees
The absence of consumable DDL, sample data and desired results is, however, evidence of the absence of my response
- Phil Parkin