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donutrun
 
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Re: We need domain-blocking for SPAM!!

Post Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:27 am


[quote="isabel95"]In my case it's scores of canned messages from aol. I wish we could block aol messages! My delete key is getting worn out.
Isabel

ABSOLUTELY!!!!! I've heard some chatter of a word verification feature that many websites are using now that would allow "real" guests to post while thwarting the automated crappers ... C'mon pbase, I'd happily even pay a bit more per year for this feature.
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goislands
 
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Post Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:28 am


alangrant wrote:This is getting ridiculous. I have had to delete about 10 messages a day for the last week. It seems like the guestbook (rather than galleries) is the most vulnerable point - is that other people's experience too?

If that is the case, it might be useful to have the option to restrict guestbook comments to members only, while still allowing non-members to comment on galleries.


Hi:

these options are available for a long time already, however not selected by default. This is explained on http://www.pbase.com/help/comments.

I have also frequently strange messages in my guestbook. Mostly from Italy with some dubious URL's. But, none of comments left on my images appear without my activation, this is actually well done by Pbase!

What we would NEED however, is enable this feature by default, if not to remove open comments completely, period. Let us enable every comment by ourselves, what would render this site useles for mass Spam messages. No food to feed Spammer, no spammer. Its the general idea.

This feature also protects from appearing any comments not related to the images of their subject. You decide to show them or to delete them.

Thomas

alangrant
 
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Post Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:49 pm


these options are available for a long time already, however not selected by default. This is explained on http://www.pbase.com/help/comments.


Sorry, but I don't see how to go about doing what I said. I can see how to restrict guestbook AND gallery comments to members only. But I don't see how to restrict guestbook comments to members while allowing non-members to comment on galleries. There seems to be only a single setting for both.

I already know about the options to not show comments without reviewing. That's been my setup for months, and my guestbook is still drowning in spam.
Alan
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donutrun
 
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Post Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:58 pm


alangrant wrote:
these options are available for a long time already, however not selected by default. This is explained on http://www.pbase.com/help/comments.


Sorry, but I don't see how to go about doing what I said. I can see how to restrict guestbook AND gallery comments to members only. But I don't see how to restrict guestbook comments to members while allowing non-members to comment on galleries. There seems to be only a single setting for both.

I already know about the options to not show comments without reviewing. That's been my setup for months, and my guestbook is still drowning in spam.


Yep -- I'm in the same place as alangrant -- I'd love a tip for how to disable the guestbook without effecting guests ability to post on individual galleries or images.
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goislands
 
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Post Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:19 pm


donutrun wrote:
alangrant wrote:
these options are available for a long time already, however not selected by default. This is explained on http://www.pbase.com/help/comments.

Sorry, but I don't see how to go about doing what I said. I can see how to restrict guestbook AND gallery comments to members only. But I don't see how to restrict guestbook comments to members while allowing non-members to comment on galleries. There seems to be only a single setting for both.

I already know about the options to not show comments without reviewing. That's been my setup for months, and my guestbook is still drowning in spam.

Yep -- I'm in the same place as alangrant -- I'd love a tip for how to disable the guestbook without effecting guests ability to post on individual galleries or images.

Hm, personally I do not see the difference. I block every message, image, galley or guestbook alike. Every message will be enabled by me, or deleted. Why this does not work for you? This works basically like email screening.

My assumption is that spammers spam here because so many people do not block the messages, they appear instantly online. Thus it makes sense to spammers to spam at pbase. If nothing would be appearing online, they would go away and scavenge for another platform to bring their messages to the public at no own cost.

Thomas

alangrant
 
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Post Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:22 pm


Every message will be enabled by me, or deleted. Why this does not work for you?

Because life is too short, frankly. I log on every couple of days and am faced with 20 new comments. Of these 5 will be genuine and 15 are spam. I have to hit "delete" 15 times, taking care not to accidentally delete a genuine message in the process (this has happened a few times). If I happen to go away for a couple of weeks, I'll have pages of spam to work through.

Because all the spam comes to the guestbook, if I could completely disable guestbook comments I wouldn't have to do this chore, and real people could still post to the galleries and images. Hence my suggestion.

I think you may have a point about the effect of other people not blocking messages - making this a default might help over the long term.
Alan
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arjunrc
 
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Post Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:33 pm


I haven't read the complete thread, so apologies if this has been requested:

I do agree that even though PBase allows moderated comments, it is a personal pain logging in and deleting each one with the current interface (having to hit delete as many times as the number of spam). For example, I just logged into the PBase Magazine acct, and I see 15 or so spam messages waiting to be deleted. And this is a daily case (almost).

So at the least, may I request the PBase provide us a checkbox at the top of each message - I can check as many and hit delete one time (clicking a checkbox 15 times is much faster than hitting delete 15 times, since delete results in the image actually being deleted, which is time consuming).

regds
arjun

pnd1
 
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Post Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:12 am


Hi, Arjun,

My instructional site on pbase generates 30 or so comments a day. About ten of them are legitimate. The others are spam, almost all of them left in my guestbook. As you say, it is a pain to place the curser and hit delete 20 times each day, every day. And when I go out on a three week shoot, I return home to find 600 spams in my guestbook.

I have been using, as recommended here on the forum, the option that allows comments from guests, but does not display them without my approval. However it is reaching the point now where cleaning up the mess is simply taking too much of my time. Like others here, I wish there was a way that we could handle spam prevention differently for the guestbook as opposed to our galleries.

I've enjoyed teaching guests as well as pbase members for the last three years, but the time has come when cleaning up the deluge of spam overwhelms that pleasure. As of today, I began refusing all guest comments throughout my entire site. Pbase members, of course, can still post comments if they wish to do so.

I hope that those who deslgn the various pbase features will grasp the need for separate spamming prevention for the guestbook. In that way, I can once again begin to serve the needs of the many guests who seek teaching help in my galleries.

Phil Douglis
http://www.pbase.com/pnd1

goislands
 
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Post Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:42 am


pnd1 wrote:[...snip]
Like others here, I wish there was a way that we could handle spam prevention differently for the guestbook as opposed to our galleries.
[...snip]

Phil Douglis
http://www.pbase.com/pnd1

Phil:
I am sure that this solution would lead nowhere. Spammer would revert than to your root gallery for example.
But why not, maybe PBase will provide the individual setting for guestbook versus gallery/image comments.
Having a separate setting can not harm, however it will not solve the dilema.

I think that the idea with a checkbox to delete all at once would be an improvement, though.
Thomas

dang
 
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Post Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:50 am


At least if they're forced into the galleries, sitemeters can log their IP's.

type
 
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Post Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:03 pm


Just wanted to refresh this thread because I am getting up to 20 spam comments in my guestbook a day, mostly from one particular offender with the word 'zzizzi' in the domain name - wondered if anyone else is tormented by this spambot? If it keeps up, I'll have to restrict comments to members only. That would be a shame. I could live with the comments being members only for the guestbook, if that would be a cheap and easy option for the pbase team to implement. Oddly, I don't get spam comments on my photos or galleries but I understand others have.

It really makes me want to harm the people who are responsible for creating these moronic spambots. :evil:

pinemikey
 
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Post Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:49 am


Yes, I'm getting hit by this zzizzi jerkoff as well. I deleted about 30 or so today. I've noticed an increase in guestbook comment spam whenever I participate in the forums. I think it is safe that someone is mining the pbase forums for active accounts and then bombarding those users with garbage comments. I sent an email to Pbase admin so that maybe they can identify the IP address or addresses of these scum and eradicate them.

Let's get the comment verification system going because these pigs are relentless.

sheila
 
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Post Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:02 am


I am unsure why PBase just cannot stop posts in guestsbooks by anyone with an AOL account :evil: Is it that difficult? I assume that folk must log into PBase as a guest with an email address so why does PBase allow those AOL accounts to log on, in the first place. Or am I being simplistic :lol:


Cheers
Sheila
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pinemikey
 
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Post Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:10 am


Well, Sheila, there are millions of legitimate AOL users...why they keep on with that loser company is beyond me, but that's the way it is. In my case the mad spammer doesn't indicate an AOL account. Now that I've entered a post onto this forum, I can expect 8-10 spam guest messages.

sheila
 
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Post Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:48 pm


I appreciate that there must be millions of legit AOL users, Mike, but if PBase stopped all OAL posters for about a week, they might go off and bother someone else! Looking through my guestbook, there were little or no AOL users before this plague :o

Cheers
Sheila
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