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      gjaltemba @junicast
      last edited by

      @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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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        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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        • junicastJ
          junicast
          last edited by

          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 ;-)

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            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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              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
              last edited by

              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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                gjaltemba @johnpoz
                last edited by

                @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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                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                  last edited by johnpoz

                  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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                    gjaltemba @johnpoz
                    last edited by

                    @johnpoz Thank you.

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                      BAOZHAI
                      last edited by

                      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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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate @BAOZHAI
                        last edited by

                        @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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                        • johnpozJ
                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                          last edited by johnpoz

                          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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                            AveryFreeman
                            last edited by

                            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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                              AveryFreeman @AveryFreeman
                              last edited by

                              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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                              • chrismacmahonC
                                chrismacmahon
                                last edited by

                                @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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                                  AveryFreeman
                                  last edited by

                                  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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                                    buergi
                                    last edited by

                                    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.

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                                    • jimpJ
                                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                      last edited by

                                      Unfortunately, NodeBB doesn't have any controls for Akismet other than treating users differently once they reach a certain level of reputation. Disabling Akismet isn't something we can do right now. Without Akismet, we get hit with a ton of spam posts and it puts a large burden on the mods to watch the forum constantly and clean it up.

                                      If you have something you want to post, but can't, then either use a pastebin site / github gist, or post and request some upvotes to get past the initial reputation threshold (5). Above that reputation level Akismet won't treat your posts like spam if it gets tripped.

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                                      • GertjanG
                                        Gertjan @buergi
                                        last edited by Gertjan

                                        @buergi said in Akismet Spam:

                                        but please consider disabling akismet

                                        Ok, seems to me you were not here when the forum - the recent version or the old version - was swamped every morning with dozens of publicity messages (at best) or all kind images with people not wearing cloths at all. Or some Chinese lecture. Or paramedic info. Before I could read about the latest NAT installation that didn't work I was already informed about the latest Viagra offers.

                                        askimet works.

                                        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                          mattlach
                                          last edited by

                                          Well,

                                          I just logged in for the first time in a while, and was confronted with this monstrosity of a forum. Seriously, anything that doesn't use standard vbulletin code and a similar layout needs to die.

                                          I spent a while typing up a long question (some 3000 characters) for the virtualization subforum and it just repeatedly rejects it as spam with no indication at all what I can do differently.

                                          This is just awful.

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                                            mattlach @Gertjan
                                            last edited by

                                            @gertjan said in Akismet Spam:

                                            askimet works.

                                            If it has even one false positive it is junk and needs to go.

                                            The usability on this new forum is so bad it's almost as if they are TRYING to drive away users.

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