I am seeing a ton of junk in what looks like Chinese!
Some threads are clean but most are not!

Scott

 

The posts aren't using the Latin alphabet but it looks like that's just in an effort to confuse any efforts by the site's built-in spam filter. The characters are broken up by letters that form a web site. Judging by the speed of the posts (slow), it's probably a human (or a team of them) creating false accounts.

 

Spammers. And a lot of them. We're trying to get rid of them as fast as we can, but a lot of us are busy. I'm doing what I can, but I'm about to hit the road for 2 hours. Sorry guys, we'll get this taken care of as soon and fast as we can.

 

I keep asking... make me a mod, someone.

 

Started late lastnight/this morning depending where you are. Remember, the mods are volunteers.

 

Once identified (IP) as a spammer, the account is banned, and is entered into a spam database. If the spammer opens several accounts under several IP's, each account has to be banned. We catch them as fast as we can.

 

Are the IPs so vast that you can't ban a range of them?

 

Well, IP's are four sets of numbers. The first three are pretty hard to change, yet the last set is easily changed. And the last one can be up to three digits; that's nearly 1,000 IP's alone that one person could easily get. So i would come to believe, anyway. Not too familiar if the last set has a number cap.

We had a troublesome member that changed his IP several times; out of the 10 PB's he has... about 7 different IP's were used. 4-5 were just the same with the last digits swapped.

 

IP4 addresses are, yeah. I disagree, though. It's VERY easy to change all four octets, and any of the four octets can be up to three digits since they're eight bit (0 to 255), and any attacker knows that. Do you have access to the firewall itself? Here's an ACL for you that will block both Koreas.

 

I'm not certain if Admins or the IB guys could. All I really can do at this level is run the IP4 address. I never looked into it excessively about IP's and how in-depth they get, so please excuse my ignorance on the subject.