nartreb wrote:Check the forums (General and Gear tabs so far) for a wave of Korean spam from users with what look like randomly-generated usernames.

Yes. Somehow those jerks are getting around the approval process.

Scott wrote:Yes. Somehow those jerks are getting around the approval process.

I recently changed the registration process again to make it harder for bots to automatically register and when I did that I eliminated the manual approval process for accounts. So these guys are spending the human time to get past the CAPTCHA in order to use a bot to automatically spam. Annoying. But I think it's more annoying for new users to have to wait sometimes days to get their account approved. So we'll deal with the spam when it happens.

Montana Matt wrote:

Scott wrote:Yes. Somehow those jerks are getting around the approval process.

I recently changed the registration process again to make it harder for bots to automatically register and when I did that I eliminated the manual approval process for accounts. So these guys are spending the human time to get past the CAPTCHA in order to use a bot to automatically spam. Annoying. But I think it's more annoying for new users to have to wait sometimes days to get their account approved. So we'll deal with the spam when it happens.

Is there a way to auto-ban any posts with certain Korean or Chinese characters in it?

I know some websites do this, but I don't know how it is done.

All the mass spammers are from Korea and China it seems. I don't think we have ever had valid forum posts using those characters.

Please delete https://www.summitpost.org/users/zitablanc/143627

She sent me a pm that started out "Good day dearest one," and it went on from there about how she wanted me to help her invest in my country.

Scott wrote:

Montana Matt wrote:

Scott wrote:Yes. Somehow those jerks are getting around the approval process.

I recently changed the registration process again to make it harder for bots to automatically register and when I did that I eliminated the manual approval process for accounts. So these guys are spending the human time to get past the CAPTCHA in order to use a bot to automatically spam. Annoying. But I think it's more annoying for new users to have to wait sometimes days to get their account approved. So we'll deal with the spam when it happens.

Is there a way to auto-ban any posts with certain Korean or Chinese characters in it?

I know some websites do this, but I don't know how it is done.

All the mass spammers are from Korea and China it seems. I don't think we have ever had valid forum posts using those characters.

Or require a Captcha to complete a post that contains suspicious characters. I know we sometimes have legit posts about Chinese and Korean mountains, and I'm pretty sure I've used a Chinese character or two myself.

This page and the member needs to be deleted:

https://www.summitpost.org/rwenzori-mou ... ak/1023744

Please delete the following people:

https://www.summitpost.org/users/mukkoti/143797

https://www.summitpost.org/users/merekasemuasama/143795

https://www.summitpost.org/users/ieltsbarron010/143796

Please delete

https://www.summitpost.org/users/blesse ... fdr/143814

Please delete

https://www.summitpost.org/users/ozstaff/143825

Please delete

https://www.summitpost.org/users/vikonript/143866

Only contribution seems to be forum post promoting diet plan.

Please delete

https://www.summitpost.org/users/aaronwilson/143877

They are advertising fake diplomas in a forum post.

Monico 2 sent me a spam private message. They need to be deleted.
https://www.summitpost.org/users/monico2/143965

Gone.

Spam:

https://www.summitpost.org/ascent-of-mo ... st/1026729