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[muks]

Laura,

Stop it , Ban it. You dont want a spam enthusiast. There is a possibility that it can happen.

[altenbach]

Well, Laura will clean it all up.

All these (31) identical posts were literally posted within minutes.

User registered: 9:29pm, 31 postings : 9:36pm ... 9:57pm.

I am surprised that the forum does not have automatic measures in place that would prevent such repetitive postings by a new user. Other forums have better defenses but that lithium lets these through.

Some ideas:

• New users cannot post in more than a few threads in the first hour/day, etc..
• The server should keep a MD5 of all messages posted over a certain time frame (e.g. 1 hour). A second instance of a post with identical text would not succeed.

[muks]

And one thing i remember is getting a annoying pink message stating i have posted 2 messages within 90 seconds but that was long back. Something on these lines should also help.

[Laura F.]

I agree, it does seem that we had extra spam activity this weekend.  I think I got everything reported to me so if you see something else just report it to the moderator so that I see it.

There definitely are safe guards against spam.  I didn't look too closely at the 31 messages, they may have changed the message enough to get around the checks.  I will look closer in the future.  I do employ user bans when it's warranted like the example that muks linked to.

Thanks,

Laura

[Cory_K]

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altenbach wrote: 

• New users cannot post in more than a few threads in the first hour/day, etc..
• The server should keep a MD5 of all messages posted over a certain time frame (e.g. 1 hour). A second instance of a post with identical text would not succeed.

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This would actually kill 2 birds with one stone.

It would also prevent those new users that join, then post the same question 3 or 4 times hoping it will get answered faster.