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[GerdW]

Well, now we know for sure there's no one in Austin watching the forum over the weekend...

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

Posting with captcha! That could be "absolute" solution. Something like that:

[SteveChandler]

This is beyond spam. This is a denial of service attack.

[altenbach]

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Andrey Dmitriev wrote:

Posting with captcha! That could be "absolute" solution. Something like that

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Michael suggested CLAD type questione here. We need to keep in mind that there could be pre-sale questions by users completely unfamiliar with LabVIEW, so they might choke on those.

There should be a simple bail-out possibility. Posts that bypass the captcha will be held for approval by a trusted user.

This is clearly a failure of the forum mechanism more than anything else. Lithium is definitely not on the ball all this point. Come on! 200+ new threads with the same root link from a handful of brand new users, probably all coming from the same IP address. Even a monkey can filter that.

[RavensFan]

At this rate, they'll all be knights by lunchtime Monday.  I see they are already getting their bars upgraded in color because of all the activity.

[SteveChandler]

Wow, still going on.. I'm not a violent person by any streach of the imagination but I think I could make an exception.

[altenbach]

With well over 2k spam posts and no end in sight, there is obviously a bot exploiting a serious vulnerability. Hopefully lithium will be able to analyze the traffic, identify the problem, and permanently plug it.

[Hornless.Rhino]

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for(imstuck) wrote:
Haha I opened up the forums and my first thought was holy *#&@

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I saw it appear in my RSS feed and thought "I wonder how bad this is"

Checked the forums, and I definitely got my answer.

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stopforumspam.com is another antispam service, but none and the usernames used here show up on that site unfortunately.

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A further way to help stop this would be instead of having multiple people instantly able to zap a spammer, have everyone be able to flag a spammer, and once a certain threshold is reached (perhaps 10 users?), the user is automatically blocked from posting, and threads hidden. This could then be checked by a staff memeber and uncorrected if necessary.

[for(imstuck)]

I think we found what will be occupying much of Jordans Monday...

[danil33]

VERY...VERY...Gloomy.Our forum has lost it's........................everything. If it is going like this,no doubt they will cross Dennis's record on number of posts.