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06/10/2014 07:33:47

oziabla
oziabla
Posts: 59 		Dear Digimania

Surely there is a long-timer user (or four) that you can give forum moderation rights to.

In the last few hours we have had 10 new spam posts.
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06/10/2014 13:02:08

ziggy72Muvizu mogulExperimental user
ziggy72
Posts: 1988 		What He Said It's always the weekend they do it - I guess they know there's less moderators around on weekends.
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06/10/2014 16:15:18

MrDrWho13Muvizu mogulExperimental user
MrDrWho13
Posts: 2220 		i agree
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19/10/2014 23:37:39

oziabla
oziabla
Posts: 59 		Nearly 100 new spam posts this weekend.

*sigh*
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19/10/2014 23:55:06

fazz68
fazz68
(Account inactive)
Posts: 763 		nearly 5 pages of spam.... a record i believe. im guessing no mods on duty at the weekend Big Grin
the thing is, does anyone actually read the spam and think "oh that sounds good, i think i'll check it out" probably not. so whats the point?
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20/10/2014 00:23:07

mystoMuvizu mogulExperimental user
mysto
Posts: 471 		From the words of the old Monty Python sketch, "I DON'T LIKE SPAM!!!!"
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20/10/2014 00:33:57

fazz68
fazz68
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Posts: 763 		mysto wrote:
From the words of the old Monty Python sketch, "I DON'T LIKE SPAM!!!!"


im quite partial to a spam fritter. many many moons ago after a good drink in the local, a spam fritter in a crusty bread roll from the chippie went down a treat Big Grin

then came back up again the next day.....
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20/10/2014 00:35:54

BrianGray
BrianGray
Posts: 45 		Perfect Quote Mysto. I think the Spammers should be booted from Muvizu. They know their spamming us. A weekend Moderator is a great idea too.

Brian
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20/10/2014 01:41:37

primaveranz
primaveranz
Posts: 520 		BrianGray wrote:
Perfect Quote Mysto. I think the Spammers should be booted from Muvizu.


They probably are when a mod finally reacts, but the spammer just create a new fake ID. Blacklisting IP address ranges is a bit more effective but even then the more determined ones can use anonymising software to get around that. New users could be blocked from sending without moderation for (say) 5 posts to check they are probably real. Most spammers would get bored and go elsewhere.
But of course, without regular moderation you will always get these "floods" happening. So Oziabla's original suggestion is the most effective, give mod permissions to a few trusted users in different time zones and just nuke the verminous little scumbags as soon as they raise their repulsive little heads
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20/10/2014 08:58:26

oziabla
oziabla
Posts: 59 		And another round...

Digimania - I think you really need to appoint additional mods now.
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20/10/2014 09:54:11

DreekoMuvizu mogulExperimental user
Dreeko
Posts: 1257 		oziabla wrote:
And another round...

Digimania - I think you really need to appoint additional mods now.


What happened to muvizu chap? I thought he was the newly appointed mod to deal with crap like this?
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20/10/2014 15:37:47

DreekoMuvizu mogulExperimental user
Dreeko
Posts: 1257 		Aha! Someone's on the ball today!

Die die die!
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20/10/2014 19:38:02

ziggy72Muvizu mogulExperimental user
ziggy72
Posts: 1988 		Not quite - the same spammers have put something up on the Assets page as well. Of course it'll be a trojan, but you can't report assets! HQ, please remove ASAP, and allow for Assets to be reported like forum posts so they can get taken down before someone downloads this crap.
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20/10/2014 20:57:03

MrDrWho13Muvizu mogulExperimental user
MrDrWho13
Posts: 2220 		ziggy72 wrote:
Not quite - the same spammers have put something up on the Assets page as well.

Wow I'm almost impressed.
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20/10/2014 21:08:53

DreekoMuvizu mogulExperimental user
Dreeko
Posts: 1257 		MrDrWho13 wrote:
ziggy72 wrote:
Not quite - the same spammers have put something up on the Assets page as well.

Wow I'm almost impressed.



Hahaha!

I was under the impression that the assets had to be sanctioned in the same way that the videos have to be.

So who was the numpty that gave it the green light then?!

Someone is going to have a sore arse tomorrow lol!

D
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21/10/2014 18:47:14

muvizu_chapMuvizu staff
muvizu_chap
Posts: 82 		Glad you remembered me! I've been away for a little while hence the pesky scammers getting their way. I'm back now and will make it a top priority to rid them from the forum.
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21/10/2014 19:23:40

DreekoMuvizu mogulExperimental user
Dreeko
Posts: 1257 		Better jump to it then matey! He's back at it again as I type!
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21/10/2014 19:24:53

MrDrWho13Muvizu mogulExperimental user
MrDrWho13
Posts: 2220 		Oh the irony!
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21/10/2014 20:27:33

primaveranz
primaveranz
Posts: 520 		You probably want to get rid of iritberger as well looking at the chat list.
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21/10/2014 20:39:20

MrDrWho13Muvizu mogulExperimental user
MrDrWho13
Posts: 2220 		I'd say he looks like a normal user, his message translates to: "Hello My Name municipality I live in Tel Aviv" according to google (looks like quite a dodgy translation).
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21/10/2014 20:51:19

primaveranz
primaveranz
Posts: 520 		מיין כאַווערקראַפט איז פול פון ילז
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21/10/2014 20:55:16

DreekoMuvizu mogulExperimental user
Dreeko
Posts: 1257 		primaveranz wrote:
You probably want to get rid of iritberger as well looking at the chat list.


That Urbanlamb character seems well dodgy too
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21/10/2014 20:57:40

fazz68
fazz68
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Posts: 763 		primaveranz wrote:
מיין כאַווערקראַפט איז פול פון ילז



ווי טשיקאַווע, מייַן האט קאַסטערד דריפּינג פון די סוף
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21/10/2014 21:18:52

ziggy72Muvizu mogulExperimental user
ziggy72
Posts: 1988 		מיין ניפּאַלז ופרייַסן מיט פרייד!
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21/10/2014 21:22:51

ziggy72Muvizu mogulExperimental user
ziggy72
Posts: 1988 		MrDrWho13 wrote:
I'd say he looks like a normal user, his message translates to: "Hello My Name municipality I live in Tel Aviv" according to google (looks like quite a dodgy translation).

I think spammer - I think he didn't put his dummy name and municipality into the spam program, so we see the default.
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21/10/2014 21:30:21

MrDrWho13Muvizu mogulExperimental user
MrDrWho13
Posts: 2220 		Ziggy - It certainly looks like that, but I'll put him on the watch list until he actually posts any.
edited by MrDrWho13 on 21/10/2014
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21/10/2014 21:57:32

primaveranz
primaveranz
Posts: 520 		MrDrWho13 wrote:
Ziggy - It certainly looks like that, but I'll put him on the watch list until he actually posts any.
edited by MrDrWho13 on 21/10/2014


Oh good, does that mean we have some user moderators now?
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21/10/2014 22:10:21

MotionToonStudios
MotionToonStudios
Posts: 9 		Congratulations Muvizers, now he was breaking the spammer, but nothing else to do than come to bother us.

Again congratulations Moderators of Muvizu.
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21/10/2014 22:12:04

primaveranz
primaveranz
Posts: 520 		MotionToonStudios wrote:
Congratulations Muvizers, now he was breaking the spammer, but nothing else to do than come to bother us.

Again congratulations Moderators of Muvizu.


Not at all suspicious for a first post
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21/10/2014 22:38:46

urbanlamb
urbanlamb
(Account inactive)
Posts: 1786 		Dreeko wrote:
primaveranz wrote:
You probably want to get rid of iritberger as well looking at the chat list.


That Urbanlamb character seems well dodgy too



mm spam!



I feel old sometimes ^^
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21/10/2014 23:21:39

urbanlamb
urbanlamb
(Account inactive)
Posts: 1786 		MrDrWho13 wrote:
I'd say he looks like a normal user, his message translates to: "Hello My Name municipality I live in Tel Aviv" according to google (looks like quite a dodgy translation).



here it is phonetically (hebrew was the first language I learned along with french dont ask me to speak anything about muvizu in it but I can still read it and translate basic stuff)

shalom koreem lo orat ani kora tel aviv (i think..)

which means 'hello I am kora from tel aviv'
my hebrew is very bad but it was the first language I spoke even though I stopped speaking it at 12 it sticks to this day..

(not sure about the name I need vowels to be sure which as you learn to speak/read hebrew you drop and vowels are only present in the bible and prayer books)

its probably a real user *goes back to lurking in the shadows*
edited by urbanlamb on 21/10/2014
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25/10/2014 10:29:34

MrDrWho13Muvizu mogulExperimental user
MrDrWho13
Posts: 2220 		ಠ_ಠ
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25/10/2014 15:14:40

bigwallyMuvizu mogulExperimental user
bigwally
Posts: 399 		ziggy72 wrote:
What He Said It's always the weekend they do it - I guess they know there's less moderators around on weekends.



You must mean NO moderators at all. Short of assigning one of us users as a "weekend" moderator, I would think that there would be AT LEAST one Muvizu employee who cares enough to monitor the forum on the weekends and take care of it, but, alas...

Sleepy
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25/10/2014 19:49:04

DreekoMuvizu mogulExperimental user
Dreeko
Posts: 1257 		You've got to admire the commitment these spammers show (even if it is to being an arsehole!)

D
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25/10/2014 21:17:06

ziggy72Muvizu mogulExperimental user
ziggy72
Posts: 1988 		Well, it seems that the forum is now a No Go area at the weekends. See you all on Monday...
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25/10/2014 22:53:35

oziabla
oziabla
Posts: 59 		^^^^

My thoughts exactly
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26/10/2014 05:56:05

fazz68
fazz68
(Account inactive)
Posts: 763 		there must be some technical wizard on this site that can bombard the email addresses provided by the Baba ji spammers with some wonderful viruses and **** them up Big Grin

muvizu dudes.. ban some ip addresses or whatever but do something coz this is getting beyond a joke.
edited by fazz68 on 26/10/2014
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26/10/2014 09:52:08

fazz68
fazz68
(Account inactive)
Posts: 763 		cant go back in the recent topics any further.............

10 pages of garbage and shite.
edited by fazz68 on 26/10/2014
edited by fazz68 on 26/10/2014
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26/10/2014 10:15:02

MrDrWho13Muvizu mogulExperimental user
MrDrWho13
Posts: 2220 		The spam - not including yesterday's
edited by MrDrWho13 on 26/10/2014
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27/10/2014 04:23:25

primaveranz
primaveranz
Posts: 520 		fazz68 wrote:
there must be some technical wizard on this site that can bombard the email addresses provided by the Baba ji spammers with some wonderful viruses and **** them up Big Grin

muvizu dudes.. ban some ip addresses or whatever but do something coz this is getting beyond a joke.
edited by fazz68 on 26/10/2014


Sadly that is not possible fazz.
Given the reduced circumstances that Digimania now operates under, the only solution is to give moguls moderator rights.
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27/10/2014 09:45:01

MrDrWho13Muvizu mogulExperimental user
MrDrWho13
Posts: 2220 		primaveranz wrote:
Given the reduced circumstances that Digimania now operates under, the only solution is to give moguls moderator rights

I might be biased but.... What He Said
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27/10/2014 20:47:17

primaveranz
primaveranz
Posts: 520 		primaveranz wrote:

New users could be blocked from sending without moderation for (say) 5 posts to check they are probably real. Most spammers would get bored and go elsewhere.


Glad to see they took my advice
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