https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/community/anju21/
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/community/bovoda1069/
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/community/caxosix296/
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/community/cvrkpp6575/
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/community/dtavidu6687/
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/community/gegigeh323/
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/community/HarrisMiller/
Can you set up a search of a post's content prior to publishing it?
This regular expression search will find any non-standard (not ASCII, which is a-Z, 0-9, & punctuation) character OR it will find a phone number, even if extra characters (up to three) between digits.
These asshats are using "look-alike" alphanumeric characters or emojis, that is, non-standard text characters, or they're trying to disguise phone numbers - this will find one or the other:
([^\u0000-\u007F]|([0-9][^0-9]{0,3}){10,})
If either is found, don't publish the post. Maybe also consider number of user posts or account age.
Alternatively, how about disabling paste actions for new users, at least for the subject field? Seems unlikely that a legit user would do it.
procainestart said:Can you set up a search of a post's content prior to publishing it?
This regular expression search will find any non-standard (not ASCII, which is a-Z, 0-9, & punctuation) character OR it will find a phone number, even if extra characters (up to three) between digits.
These asshats are using "look-alike" alphanumeric characters or emojis, that is, non-standard text characters, or they're trying to disguise phone numbers - this will find one or the other:
([^\u0000-\u007F]|([0-9][^0-9]{0,3}){10,})
If either is found, don't publish the post. Maybe also consider number of user posts or account age.
Alternatively, how about disabling paste actions for new users, at least for the subject field? Seems unlikely that a legit user would do it.
Thank you for your suggestion. Yes, phone numbers are the common link, and we're looking for ways to prevent new users from flooding our pages with them. I'll forward this suggestion along and we will be rolling our other measures as well. I expect this to start next week.
Inactive, but here's a stock photo sleeperbot from Seattle, NY
This user's posts and avatar photo look AI-generated:
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/community/medicprepper/
Also, a couple more members of the nightly canoe flotilla:
Im sinking canoes as they come in. Do we know if they are coming from the same IP addy? Just wondering if we limit new profiles to 1 per IP addy per month or something like that.
seems like the canoeists figured out its not worth posting a ton with the same user name. Its 1 post per user name.
In reply to TJL (Forum Supporter) :
I spent a number of years moderating some extremely popular forums. One of the best tricks in my arsenal to combat spam was to restrict posts by new users: If they hadn't commented (x) number of times, they could not create new posts. This at least helped stop a fair bit of the dreck. I don't know if that's an option here, but it's at least something. IP addresses are too easily spoofed.
In reply to brandonsmash :
I like that suggestion. We have a couple of things in the works. Thank you - and everyone - for helping patrol the forums for spam.
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