Spam issue

this is insane. woke up to 500 emails!

if you unsubscribed, there are still emails already in the pipeline. He stopped any new tutorials yesterday so there should not be any new tutorial emails joining the queue.

R0J0hound .

This nostalgia. Castlevania2 and his message ( just awful ) that comes up all the time. ^^

Scirra

How about adding something like: when 3 licensed members report a profile, the reported profiles posting abilities gets halted until checked by staff ?

I've never experienced such a spam infestation of this kind before. If I was a suspicious person, I could almost imagine it being a deliberate attack from, for instance, a recently banned user.

Just turn off new user registrations for a few days. It will hardly be that much of an issue to new legitimate users, as long as a message informs them of the reason.

I've never experienced such a spam infestation of this kind before. If I was a suspicious person, I could almost imagine it being a deliberate attack from, for instance, a recently banned user.

Just turn off new user registrations for a few days. It will hardly be that much of an issue to new legitimate users, as long as a message informs them of the reason.

Looking at the posting frequency, it is automated, constantly 2 sets of 2 posts a minute, then a set of 3 posts a minute.

It looks like it is automated advertising for the developer/owner of the sites involved.

The head lines from the subject pop up in google too.

Its been spamming ubi, battle.net, and several others.

Yea, I know. It wasn't really a serious suggestion - just a mini bout of frustration :/

So I suppose it will have to wait till Tom gets back to resolve the issue.

In the mean time shall we name our new spam buddy? I vote for something simple like Carl. All in favor?

When the scirra office closes for the day the forum should change to a darker appearance with the message

"What a horrible night to have a curse..."

Bonus if they can get this music playing in the background.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7tNQXwjAlI0

Yeah, Carl sounds great. Why don't we try and monetize it? We could all band together and make a game, call it say, 'attack of the carls'.

In absolute seriousness now - just set the Newly Registered Users group to "Can ignore flood limit" - "Never".

Set flood limit to something like an hour.

Whaha, apparently, it's spamming the shiznit out of youtube too.

Scirra

After some research, it looks like this happened last February too on a global scale for a wide variety of forums.

I saw some reports of having success blocking this thing automatically by the use of Mollom.

https://www.mollom.com/

Apparently you can train this content monitoring program (by blocking things) to stop things like this from happening.

Here is a drupal related site thread with some information: https://www.drupal.org/node/2434091

Comment #13 looks promising

It appears the emails have finally stopped *touches wood*

This must be what we get for watching The Interview.

Well, I think the spam has been lessening even with the waves. The website response time seems to be faster today than the last few days, where it would take up to 4 seconds to load anything.

How about shadow banning these dummy accounts while purging all their messages in one go?