Akismet Spam
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@gertjan
Yeah, but I am no new user at all. It seems clear that this is a migration issue. -
Well, stay connected then, and you'll meet the Chinese University spammer - he popped up last month several times, leaving dozens of messages everywhere. They have to be cleaned out manually.
Every forum-site admin always searches to auto-handle this - and up until today, no good anti-spam system has been found. Positive hits happens ones in a while.
edit : I have this reflex : before hitting Submit, I Ctrl-A Ctrl-C first ^^
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That's sad. It tells how bad the software is you've been using.
@gertjan said in Akismet Spam:edit : I have this reflex : before hitting Submit, I Ctrl-A Ctrl-C first ^^
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@pmisch said in Akismet Spam:
That's sad. It tells how bad the software is you've been using.
One of the software parts is my brain. And I know, doesn't get any better for a long time now.
More serious : if the connection resets, I hit the Akismet wall, or any other phenomena that proofs that our Internet connection fails ones in a while, I have a spare copy on the clipboard, so I can redo and adapt my post ^^ -
@pmisch said in Akismet Spam:
Can we get back to the old Forum, please. This one I don't like very much.
No. The old forum is gone and not coming back.
If you get some upvotes on your posts then the restrictions get relaxed past a certain point. But we didn't give everyone any karma/upvotes/etc on upgrade.
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@pmisch Me too. Simple text post and simple text reply rejected as spam. Has not been a problem in the past. Most annoying. Makes me feel un-welcome.
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I know it can be a little rough but the alternative is making the mods delete dozens of spam posts/accounts by hand per day, which is not sustainable. Even with a CAPTCHA and registration question, spam was still flowing in steadily. Akismet is the only thing so far that has actually made a dent in it. Now we get maybe single digits of spam posts per week.
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I support this new technique very much.
Maybe there a possibility of flag specific accounts trusted. You will never get spam from my account that's for sure ;-) -
That's where the karma level comes in. Once you get to 10 pts it won't consider your posts spam.
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I can tell you for sure that number of flagged posts as spam has gone way done that is for sure..
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@johnpoz Guess I am considered to be a casualty in Netgate's war against spam. 10 pts is my target to prove that I am an upstanding citizen of this community.
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Ya need 1 more after I gave you one - let me look over your previous to find something worth thumbsup up ;)
Ok found one from a few days back where you gave actuate advice on firewall rules needed - your now at 10 ;) Don't freaking SPAM!!! hehehe
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@johnpoz Thank you.
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yeah its very frustrating when you have to post 2nd time and have to wait for another 120 seconds. It kills all the rhythm of any discussion.
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@baozhai said in Akismet Spam:
yeah its very frustrating when you have to post 2nd time and have to wait for another 120 seconds. It kills all the rhythm of any discussion.
It's a forum, not a real-time chat. That said, the time restriction is another limit that gets lifted when you have positive reputation. It only takes 3 reputation to get past that restriction.
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Which is hard to do with 4 posts total ;) What possible flow could you have missed with a total of 4 posts?? In the whole month you have been here WTF? ;)
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Damnit, my posts keep getting flagged as spam, too
It's pretty depressing when trying to get support your hard-checked post with lots of technical details gets thrown in the rubbish in the blink of an eye.
Crap, is this going to get flagged, too?
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I just can't get any of my posts to work
I am seriously considering changing to a different platform since I can't seem to get support for pfSense anymore
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@averyfreeman said in Akismet Spam:
I just can't get any of my posts to work
I am seriously considering changing to a different platform since I can't seem to get support for pfSense anymore
I have upvoted a several of your posts.. you should be good to post your questions.
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Thank you, that's very nice of you
Unfortunately I already managed to install ClearOS and create a working bond0 device for my WAN in that time, which was what my support question was for a couple days ago. I must've had at least 6-7 posts I attempted flagged before I just gave up, akismet really doesn't like new people pasting clipboards of their issues.
I might be back, we'll see how it goes... have a nice day.
