Akismet Spam
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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.
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Same problem here, took me half an hour to post a thread, posted it piece by piece. Plus I had to wait 2 minutes in between as I'm a new user. After half an hour I finally found out that the problem was the output of ifconfig. This is ridiculous.
Although i really want to like pfSense I'm showered with bad experiences all around pfsense. Just took me 8 hours to find a stupid bug in the tinc package which I found on the first day I ever used pfSense in my life. Then when trying to post about a workaround here I had to spend another 30 minutes just to get around the spam protection. I wonder what the next days will bring...
Enough ranted, really no offense, but please consider disabling akismet or at least consider reconfiguring it to be less strict. This is so absolutely frustrating to write one's fingers to the bone for a good post and than crippling it down to find what akismet is complaining about.
