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rick.ca:
You could send them all an email..."We're purging fake accounts. You have 10 days to post something interesting or donate to prove you're human." ;D
rick.ca:
If you're able to delete accounts in bulk, here are some candidates:
75 accounts with usernames ending in "rhitogBor."
30 accounts with usernames ending in "Dotloorofak." I tired after deleting 45.
rick.ca:
Most of the spam accounts are easy enough to identify, but they're being added faster than I can delete them. I can also see, as I suspected, some of them are adding a "normal" looking accounts, then coming back to them a day or more later to add links and spam posts. The Quick Ban on Account Delete mod would help, particularly if IP bans are effective. Can you see any pattern in the IP addresses of these accounts, or are they being spoofed too?
nostra:
There seems to be a pattern in those IP addresses, but I am not sure how likely it is for normal users to happen to have an IP address from the same range...
rick.ca:
I wouldn't ban a range unless there were more than two IP's in last octet. The chance of a legitimate user (current or future) being in the same group would be extremely slim. Otherwise, I would only block the one IP being banned. By a "pattern," I meant one that suggests they are real IP addresses (rather than somehow spoofed) and therefore can be banned. Also, I understand spammers are now the primary users of proxy services like Tor. I don't think we should be concerned about blocking those.
I'm beginning to wonder if they're now more active because I've been deleting accounts. I just deleted a dozen or so about an hour ago. Now there's a dozen or so new ones. ::)
It seems they consistently post in the first board. Maybe you should create a new first board called "Spam," and let them do their thing. :D
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