Death to Spammers, Phishers etc.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:03 am

this piece of shit.

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=41562

http://eplaya.burningman.org/memberlist ... le&u=48357

and this one.

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=41486

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:12 am

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=41476

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:20 am

He ended up with a total of 92. Sumbitch!! Anyway, click on the red ! triangle - it's quick and easy and we see them a lot faster!

Hugs, and thanks - if I get on playa this year IOU a brewski!

Post by **AntiM** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:23 am

I wish everyone could see that lovely shade of pink, like the post is all embarrassed or sumthin.

Post by **Elderberry** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:31 am

AntiM wrote:I wish everyone could see that lovely shade of pink, like the post is all embarrassed or sumthin.

Me too. Even though we can't act on removing them, it would make it easier to avoid them.

jella · Post by **jella** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:58 pm

I've been playing asteroids with Cramitteerife's posts

. love the report icon !
Every 6-7 minutes apart...geeeze sounds like labor hahahaha

Dr Jet Sinister · Post by **Dr Jet Sinister** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:24 pm

Where's the LOIC when you really need it?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:11 pm

Okay, this latest tool actually started a post in this sub-forum. I'm glad I don't think it was on purpose, because I gotta kinda give him props, if it were.

tamarakay · Post by **tamarakay** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 2:01 pm

Holy crap spam man.
http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... 5&start=30

tamarakay · Post by **tamarakay** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 2:04 pm

oh! never noticed the red triangle. much mo better.

Dr Jet Sinister · Post by **Dr Jet Sinister** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:33 am

Why do we still see the same spammers for weeks? Like this FROGFUFFFIC account? Why is it still here?

Post by **Elderberry** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:49 am

Dr Jet Sinister wrote:Why do we still see the same spammers for weeks? Like this FROGFUFFFIC account? Why is it still here?

Why are any of these accounts still here?
AnnuattExhara
asd456789
atoraneuntems
biftAgOrOmiff
blencebuh
divehessy
errororrisp
excenique
experiing
FluemeAppef
FROGFUFFFIC
glonigespipsy
kayagniva
keziyouyouq
leddy492
meiperseor
Obligueflubre
Prawoppokgoam
randyy
RomoAnago
scourburb
Seedisevasy
teetsWholus
TLNlucky23
WedurNebrumk
ZJGrozer
!!Paltalill

junglesmacks · Post by **junglesmacks** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:42 am

Also..

This new thing with spambots posting images, you can report those images for violation of TOS to the image host.

http://stream.imageshack.us/content.php ... il&q=abuse

Right click and copy the image location, then report the image to the host for deletion.

Dr Jet Sinister · Post by **Dr Jet Sinister** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:06 pm

FROGFUFFFIC wrote:stuff and things

I had to quote this because it's too damn funny that this crap is posted in THIS thread from this SAME guy that can't be deleted for some reason!

FIGJAM · Post by **FIGJAM** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:24 pm

And I just flagged it befor I saw it was a quote.

Dr Jet Sinister · Post by **Dr Jet Sinister** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:38 pm

FIGJAM wrote:And I just flagged it befor I saw it was a quote.

I figured it would happen when I did it, then didn't bother to put my comment at the top of it instead.

Dr Jet Sinister · Post by **Dr Jet Sinister** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:46 pm

However, he came back again. Where are the OverMods?

FROGFUFFFIC wrote:stuff and things

Post by **trilobyte** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:18 pm

You just can't get good help these days

Just flag and ignore, we'll get to it when we can. ePlaya may be an awesome place, but our tiny little corner of the internet has little (and by little, I mean nothing) in the way of spambot protection

Dr Jet Sinister · Post by **Dr Jet Sinister** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:28 pm

Would it do any good to request the 'power' to suspend a user? I can understand the powers that be not wanting you regular pleb mods to delete people (I am kidding. I don't think you're plebs, but you're being treated as such.), but it seems harmless to allow you to suspend accounts for 48 or 72hrs. I know that's a fairly easy add on to phpbb.

Post by **Elderberry** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:47 pm

Nope, the admins don't want to do their jobs, just hold the title. So they certainly wouldn't want to allocate their powers to someone that actually cares about the board and has time to do the job right. After all, if they did that, they wouldn't be relevant any longer, now would they? They must all be republican tea baggers.

Dr Jet Sinister · Post by **Dr Jet Sinister** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:11 pm

jkisha wrote:Nope, the admins don't want to do their jobs, just hold the title. So they certainly wouldn't want to allocate their powers to someone that actually cares about the board and has time to do the job right. After all, if they did that, they wouldn't be relevant any longer, now would they? They must all be republican tea baggers.

It's only a tiny bit of their powers, besides they wouldn't show up to actually delete people in that 48hr period so our regular visiting mods could at least put those bastards in a time out again, and again, and again.

I share your sentiment completely.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:33 pm

Okay, I like it when Frogfuckupness replies to another spammer's thread.

Post by **trilobyte** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 10:28 pm

I don't know everyone in the org, but I do know a few people and I can honestly say that I don't believe it's a case of admins wanting to hoard power. Very small organization (org chart-wise), very limited resources on staff. Remember, this (the whole of Burning Man) is a weird sort of experiment. I had a good (though brief) face to face meeting at the BM Project launch shindig tonight, and am planning to head over to BMHQ next week to see what I can do to help not only deal with the spammy phisherbots, but the cause of our beloved ePlaya in general.

Post by **Elderberry** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:14 pm

You know, that's pure crap! I'm glad you're having the meeting, but if it doesn't end in you and/or AntiM or any of the other mods elevated to admins I will rest my case. If they dont trust you guys enough to be admins, what other reason could there be? None that makes any sense in light of the good your promotion would do for eplaya.

They aren't doing their job and they are preventing anybody else from doing it either.

trilobyte wrote:I don't know everyone in the org, but I do know a few people and I can honestly say that I don't believe it's a case of admins wanting to hoard power. Very small organization (org chart-wise), very limited resources on staff. Remember, this (the whole of Burning Man) is a weird sort of experiment. I had a good (though brief) face to face meeting at the BM Project launch shindig tonight, and am planning to head over to BMHQ next week to see what I can do to help not only deal with the spammy phisherbots, but the cause of our beloved ePlaya in general.

Post by **trilobyte** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 12:39 am

You're assuming that the current situation is the result of malice, and not simply neglect. If you give someone a list of 1000 things to do, but there's only time to get 700 of those things done, stuff doesn't get done/gets neglected. The current situation sucks, but will get better.

Krusty · Post by **Krusty** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:36 am

I keep getting spam PM's from user "insoraIdion"

hello, Krusty!
if you like music
join http://myspace.com/djmikewonderful
and listen to the new "So Wonderful" release!

or check out this: http://bit.ly/ig0kjt

hope you enjoy his music - let him know what u think.
hope all is well, peace and best regards.

I have never had any contact with this person, so can't believe that I am the only one.

Post by **AntiM** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:04 am

We haven't found a way to stop the PM spam. Hit the report icon, then delete the message. I'm hoping Trilobyte can get at the root of that problem soon.

Here and there · Post by **Here and there** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:50 pm

This is annoying: in less time than it took to post a minor correction to a discussion that I had just started, somebody had already spammed it.

The Discussion: Proposed Event: Overflow

Spam Post: organisms download oem software

The Spammer: FROGFUFFFIC

Desirable Outcome: His slow, lingering death at my hands, over a period of months. But there are still a few laws that would get in my way, if I was going to make that happen, so I guess I'll have to settle for him being banned from the forum by IP address.

Post by **AntiM** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:56 pm

I've had it happen to me, and I'm a mod.

Sigh.

Here and there · Post by **Here and there** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:14 pm

Sorry to hear that, AntiM. And thanks for getting rid of that post.

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