Saidit is constantly getting spammed with porn, and other bullshit. Can we not do something about this?

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[–]magnora7 38 insightful - 13 fun38 insightful - 12 fun39 insightful - 13 fun -  (5 children)

Yeah I'm removing it... this is a 24/7 job where I make no money and get yelled at constantly for letting the place suck. What joy

[–]Aureus 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Thank you for removing it! It looks like the spammer got tired anyways. I appreciate everything you do for the site.

If the spam resumes or gets really bad, maybe have a short-term moratorium on creating new accounts? Not a perfect fix, but it would get the job done.

[–]magnora7 20 insightful - 4 fun20 insightful - 3 fun21 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Thanks! It was about 150 links (across about 75 user names). Glad it's gone.

Yeah we can turn account creation off... but all 75 accounts were registered 2 weeks ago. These people came prepared to do exactly what they're doing. Pretty sad tbh

[–]Aureus 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Shit, don't mean to ruin your day but looks like the spammers are back. This time they're on a "u" name.

Their usernames are all sequential words, made around the same time. There must be a way to use that against the spammers, maybe identify and ban them pre-emptively.

Don't sweat it though, if this is keeping you up you should get some sleep. SaidIt can survive a little spam for a few hours.

[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks. I appreciate the kind words and the heads up. I'm going to be doing this all night if need be. And now d3rr is alerted to the spam problem as well.

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If you send me them i dissect them one by one.