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Obvious spam trouble here(self)

34 points33 points36 points submitted by relative

Yea, duh! I wonder why someone does not look at the logs and see which countries produce most of the spam and then just block the whole country using cloudflare.

It does not take a genius to figure out that china, singapore, india, phillipines are probably behind 75% of the spam.

Those countries do not speak english, which seems to be the default language in this forum.

The option to just let the spam come in and pretend it does not exist is not working and will result in the death of this forum.

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magnora7 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun 9 days ago

Then they will just use USA VPNs and be right back at it in a few hours, and we will have blocked a lot of the global freedom of speech this site is intended for. So I don't see this as being a positive move in the long run, but I appreciate the idea.

In-the-clouds 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 8 days ago

Thank you for defending free speech.

magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 8 days ago

Thank you. I wish it was 1997 again and we didn't have this insane AI botspam problem to deal with, it's really doing a number on text forums across the internet. It has created so many problems for people trying to communicate.

Musky 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun 10 days ago

Cloudflare lets you do that?

u/magnora7 that sounds like a fantastic idea to me.

hfxB0oyA 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun 10 days ago

I second this.

relative[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 10 days ago

Yes, even the free accounts :)

relative[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun 10 days ago

Here is a quick procedure on how to do it.

  1. login to cloudflare
  2. choose your domain
  3. On left side window click "Security"
  4. On the drop-down window under security click WAF
  5. Make a new rule to block some countries.

On my site I block China, Korea North, Ukraine, Russian Federation, Tor, Brazil, Singapore

There is a drop down list of countries that make it easy, once you figure out who to block.

neolib 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 10 days ago

I'm against blocking Tor, because I'm using it here.

YoMamma 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 10 days ago

ditto

PsychoTranyRedditMod 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 9 days ago

I like tor, but it often gets stuck in endless.captcha or blocked by so many sites.

Req 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 9 days ago

anti-censorship site: bans users from censorship prone area of the world. I get the point your trying to make but i think you are missing the real issue. Its the ratio of user content to bot content. Everywhere you go you will find bot content. Its so prominent here because of how little legit content is making bot content stand out more.

not really any way to fix this

Countach_3D 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 5 days ago

singapore, india, phillipines do not speak english

Is this a joke?

You have no idea what languages are spoken in those countries, do you?

(No, don't open a new tab to Wikipedia, cheater)