Is this Indian spammer posting with Tor? If so.....

This is really beginning to stick in my craw. What a loser. If it's the case that his IP can't be banned because it's changing all the time (and I presume this forum software has the ability to ban IP's) then there's a good chance he's posting through the Tor network. Complete lists of current Tor nodes, which are frequently updated, are readily available for example here: https://www.dan.me.uk/tornodes - this one is updated every 30 minutes. 
 
I have no idea if Cakewalk is already blocking Tor nodes, but if it isn't then PLEASE would you consider adding them to an IP ban list because TONS of this spam BS is posted from them. 

I tagged some, as well.
 
Once he gets 3 flags, I believe the rest are conditionally approved, and then he gets the user name deleted.
 
Bob Bone

robert_e_bone
I tagged some, as well.
 
Once he gets 3 flags, I believe the rest are conditionally approved, and then he gets the user name deleted.
 
Bob Bone

And then he just goes ahead and signs up for a new account from another email address, using a proxy to do it from another IP. We can either sit back and put up with this BS over and over, or Cakewalk can take steps to ban posting from proxies. It's certainly possible. 

Yeah - he is already unable to actually get any more content posted - you will see it in the list for a short while, but the message thread content will not get accepted, and his profile name will be deleted.
 
This crap usually show up around this time in the morning, and folks tag it as spam right away, so it's not too bad, other than the guy being a douche in the first place.
 
Bob Bone
 

No need to report it, the staff see the spam flags.

I DO happen to completely agree with you - the Cakewalk folks have been frequently made aware how much this guy SUCKS - there is not currently any other solution than to do what it is we do.
 
I actually haven't seen the cabinets guy for a while - always wondered how he would come across the big pond to install those cabinets at my place anyways.  :)
 
Bob Bone
 

Just zapped the song Forum. I always look at the Home page and see if they are spamming the sub forums too. 
 
I mentioned this on the 8.5 forum, 
I think a possible solution is to use the same filter that keeps new members from posting links or pictures from starting more than one thread a day. If this is possible. 
It is just way to easy to create a new account here and start a thread. 
Some forums won't let your first thread through until a moderator looks at it first. 
Some forums won't let you post until you have replied to a certain number of threads. 
Stienberg only allows registered members on it's main forum. 
Example, I can post on the LE forum and Wave Lab, but not on Cubase main forum. That said, it's a dull forum with slow answers. 
But here we could have unregistered people using the "getting started" forum

craigb
I check the home page often (which is why I create a new topic or bump one to replace the spammer title showing there).  Since Friday, I've flagged over 200 posts (in several different forums) which basically killed almost an hour of my weekend...  I PM'd Ryan with a suggestion since these guys have really ramped up their uselessness this week.  We'll see if anything can be done.
 
 

 
That's what I mean man, flagging these scumbags is a pain in the ass. I flagged maybe 10 of them earlier, and it's still a couple of minutes work. You have to click on the post, scroll down, click the flag, wait for it to confirm (which often takes a few seconds at this time of the night because CW's server still seems to go on the wonk on a regular basis). It's not the best solution. 
 

Cactus Music
 
I think a possible solution is to use the same filter that keeps new members from posting links or pictures from starting more than one thread a day. If this is possible. 

This is a bad idea.  Imagine a newbie who is struggling with several different questions, who then can't post more than one of those questions a day.

As I understand it, the forum software is maintained by a third party, and other than Cakewalk's ability to change some configuration parameters and such, it would require some sort of programming effort (and likely cost and time) for the actual developers of the forum software to make such changes to the actual operation of the forum software.
 
Bob Bone
 
 

The forums software is here, let us know what you find that will resolve this I didn't see anything...
http://www.aspplayground.net

IIS (Internet Information Server), the web server the forums software runs on, could filter this out.

CakeAlexS
The forums software is here, let us know what you find that will resolve this I didn't see anything...
http://www.aspplayground.net

IIS (Internet Information Server), the web server the forums software runs on, could filter this out.

That too is an extreme oversimplification. 

I know Ryan said before the restrictions are a major inconvenience for new user, but on pianoworld forum I had
restrictions for first dozen posts and also I had to wait 48 hours to be approved for an account. Maybe make it
harder to join the forum will slow the spammers down and move on to an easier target.

Demo here:
http://www.aspplayground.net/demo/m/home.aspx

The ideal would be they allow for posts to be filtered by regex expression, I don't see that so the only way right now would be for it to happen via IIS ISAPI unless a pattern of IP Addresses could be detected (which seems unlikely).

Again not commenting on what should be done, just what I can see, I'm sure Cake is doing the best they can here within the limitations imposed upon them. This sort of thing can be quite tricky.

azslow3
http://www.aspplayground.net/community/What-features-do-you-have-to-fight-Abuse-Spam-m407793.aspx?high=Spam
I agree, not really fascinating list for payed software... There is no demo version so what is really there is hard to say.
 

BTW, if you don't like the newsletters you can unsubscribe.

The lower part of the newsletters is interesting for me. But the fact I get that I am "qualified" while I already have it means there was no any real "qualification". That is the only thing which disturb me, not the fact there is new sale, which is perfectly ok.
 
I understand you are working hard and I appreciate it. But fighting particular not robot spamer is relatively easy task (track ip, track proxy, etc... such people are not really fast) as well as adding anti bot features to the forum (registration with custom fields validation, content spam check, akismet is there)
 
PS. Thanks for the demo link, so normal anti spam is available in this software

IP's were blocked plenty of times. Our spam is definitely a combination of real people and bots. The majority of the spam is clearly bots considering they can get around the link restrictions.

Try to understand that this software is compiled. We don't have the source code. Overriding its behavior would require a lot of work and would be unpredictable. We are a small company and have chosen to pool our resources into other areas. Combating spam isn't as simple as flipping a switch. Were that the case you wouldn't see it anywhere. ISAPI filters and URL Rewriters can cause you to chase your tail just like anything else. I understand that there are a lot of smart people making suggestions, but if you think we've been idle about solutions you haven't been carrying the weight we have.

The Akismet integration with ASP Playground has only been available for about a week. I've been thinking about it nonstop.

Nevertheless, there is still an option here for all community members to flag posts as spam should automated systems not do the trick. Hopefully this helps.

Re the Newsletter... There is logic built into who receives certain upgrades. Like anything, it is possible that in your case a mistake was made. It seems weird to compare it to spam versus considering there might have been a mistake.