I came here to do two things, drink beer and tag spammers, and it looks like I am all out of beer.Funny. My problem is that I'm all out of gum.
Well, off to get more! Catch y'all later!
*Skips off*/scene
Is it just me or are they increasing the amount of trash they are dumping here?
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*Sonics spam posts*
What?
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Who deadlock seals a SPAM POST?!
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They think this is a game?!? I don't recall them being in that forum before!
(The link is to the spammers 'profile', but they have posts in the Forum Games.)
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Heya, just a quick update! We're pretty sure we've isolated the issue letting this latest barrage of spammers through. Our tech team will be arming some upgraded lasers, though it's unlikely to occur until they've narrowed down our current downtime issues. Thanks again for sticking with us to get these spammers out of here, folks :)
We stand here, together, against the eternal barrage of gambling sites, fake document producers, and other spamscum.
We are proud to mount the defence of our chosen land against these interlopers.
Hope, all, that the diligent service of the technical specialists yields more, and better, weapons for our forces to wield in this ongoing battle.
None shall forget the day the almighty +5 banhammer of spam smiting was forged, and none shall forget those whose grave duty it is to bear it into the fight.
We are not the meek, the powerless, the victims. We are the warriors, the fighters (wizards, sorcerers, clerics, bards, and so forth) who stand behind this line, and proclaim with a single voice that spam is wrong (unless we mean processed meat)! That we will not yield! That we will never, ever, admit defeat!
For Paizo! For Gaming! FOR US ALL!
.....spam is wrong!People in Hawaii would disagree with you.
Edited for clarity on this eminently reasonable point.
Hawaiians think Spam is a real Treet.
<In best creepy voice from Poltergeist> "They're back!" Flagged a few.
Seems that new batch is just starting...
I seem to be one of the few, the proud who stand against the tidal wave of evil in the dark of your night. Even without America awake, we Euros must take this fight, for you and for all of us. There is (apart from some American insomniacs) none who will stand with us.
FOR PAIZO!!!
One snuck into Rules Questions...
Grrrrrr....
*Lays down a smoking spamflagizator Mk. IV*
Heheheheh. Mark them my flagsies! Mark them and watch the SPAMHammer strike!
Chalk up another 50 or so spam posts for the flagged grave yard.
Just a quick note, since it's been a bit since the last thread: you absolutely don't need to spend lots of time flagging these folks (our tools for isolating the bad posts have been beefed up substantially). The last thing we want is our users feeling they need to spend excess amount of time reporting them, rather than focusing on other discussions. :)
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We flag...
a) because we care.
b) so we can look at the mirror, pose with a constipated hero/patriot face, yell "I'm doing my part" and get the warm feeling that Starship Troopers (the movie!) references bring to every boy and girl.
c) because the Peacock Spirit wills it.
Looking at the posting rate of some people here, it is probably a good thing that they flag for a while and let others get a word edgewise. :-p
They are flooding in again, one or two every few seconds -- whatever was done most recently isn't stopping it.
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We haven't pushed the updated laser out yet. We've figured out what they are doing to get past the current one but have to close that loophole. We're actively working on it.
THIS IS PAIZO! ::kicks spam post into bottomless hole::
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New game (since I'm all out of decent song lyrics)! Spam-named monsters.
Spampire.
Spammer swarm.
Spambling mound.
Spammetzu a.k.a. Advertiser Devil
The dreaded Spam Wyrm, who's breath is a cone of blackjack cards and loaded dice.
Spambie - a shambling undead monstrosity that somehow keeps dropping links everywhere it goes.
Spammic - dreaded abberation that appears to be a normal post, but actually wants to drag you screaming to nether realms of Hazardoom.
Spam Ooze.
Spamtoms. The familiar of Spamtualists.
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Yog always gets the good references.....
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Now that I'm back, I can be a little more hands on about this. It looks like there was at least one problem on our end. Things SHOULD be smoother tonight and hopefully I've nipped that one little thing in the bud and that should cascade to some better stuff. There is the possibility that new updates have further broken that thing and it won't last long enough to deal with it but we should see tonight if there are further things that need to be fixed before we deploy any new spam laser updates. Regardless, I'm back and that should help things a bit. =)
Spamatotic Titan
Spam of Yog-Sothoth
These MUST appear in Strange Aeons . . . Along with Bob-Sothoth.
It seems that someone, somewhere, is VERY interested in sql.
Also, dunno about this as a possible QOL enhancement, but would it be possible for posts flagged as spam to be auto hidden for whoever flags them? As if the tech team didn't have enough work...
Huh. What is the point of that new spam? Feeding the search engines seemingly meaningless strings of words?
Could it be an actual attack on the servers trying to gather information about encryption? Or just a mask for some other activity by those accounts?
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Huh. What is the point of that new spam? Feeding the search engines seemingly meaningless strings of words?
Could it be an actual attack on the servers trying to gather information about encryption? Or just a mask for some other activity by those accounts?
Looks like that helped them get past some filters on another site. Probably trying to see if lets them get through on this. Spammers have been entering a message that gets past certain weaponry and then editing the post. Does not look like an injection attempt. That wasn't any sort of actual sql but just some sql related words. They infested another site with the same words that was code related so I assume it was on the agenda for the above push and edit technique.
Ooh, legit post then edit. Crafty little beggars, ain't they?
Limited utility thanks to the edit window here, but if they get wise to that I don't envy you coming up with a way to stop them.
Yog always gets the good references.....Sorry about that, Bob--I think James Jacobs is the one who's always pushing your brother. Did your spawn make it into Bestiary 5, at least?
No, but thanks for the reminder. I've got some open wounds, if you want to rub salt in them....
Huh. What is the point of that new spam? Feeding the search engines seemingly meaningless strings of words?
Could it be an actual attack on the servers trying to gather information about encryption? Or just a mask for some other activity by those accounts?
Pay no attention to the code behind the spam, Carbon Unit.
Looks like that helped them get past some filters on another site. Probably trying to see if lets them get through on this. Spammers have been entering a message that gets past certain weaponry and then editing the post. Does not look like an injection attempt. That wasn't any sort of actual sql but just some sql related words. They infested another site with the same words that was code related so I assume it was on the agenda for the above push and edit technique.Huh. What is the point of that new spam? Feeding the search engines seemingly meaningless strings of words?
Could it be an actual attack on the servers trying to gather information about encryption? Or just a mask for some other activity by those accounts?
I thought about much more crude method of looking at the communication with the server and comparing the changes in the communication with each repeated but very similar packet of data. Of course, I forgot there is no client on the customer side that would be sending encrypted data beyond the regular browser encryption and the data contained in the browser cache shouldn't contain any information vital to the server security anyway.
Don't look at me like that, it's been about twenty years since the last time I wrote a program...
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No, but thanks for the reminder. I've got some open wounds, if you want to rub salt in them....Yog always gets the good references.....Sorry about that, Bob--I think James Jacobs is the one who's always pushing your brother. Did your spawn make it into Bestiary 5, at least?
Could be worse--they could have made it in, but as "Nieces/Nephews/Others of Yog-Sothoth."
Holy cow. I've been quiet on the Paizo boards, just viewing a thread of interest (mostly lurking), but wow. That's a LOT of SPAM (not to be confused with the meat product, I'll eat that fried with plenty of mustard and dill relish).
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Last time spammers were a problem IIRC, there was always a big surge Friday evening. They probably figure no one will be in until Monday morning to clean this all up. Fortunately for us, and unfortunately for them, Paizo is awesome at destroying spammers, even on weekends!