Ryan Munnis [Cakewalk]

Guitarhacker
this spammer is a persistent bugger....  The mods have been cleaning his crap up but he has a lot of free time on his hands apparently.
 
The mods need to do that IP blocking thing on this POC.

We block the IPs every time FWIW. Unfortunately it's not exactly hard to get around.

Rather than specific IP address, do you guys ever block by subnet?

> Rather than specific IP address, do you guys ever block by subnet?
 
Like whole counties... like the UK :)
I regularly block off China on my servers assuming China is not a targeted territory (sorry China! but then they are used to it). Joking aside (although I do block off china) that's what you generally need to do (maybe a whole country may be a bit too drastic for Cakewalk).

Yeah, I think a whole country is extreme, but as a forum admin I've seen spammers that change IP addresses with every spam but the addresses are all within a subnet, so I would just block the subnet. In theory that may block a few valid users, but the payoff was that it sometimes kept spammers from polluting and ruining the forum for current members, and it didn't block every single address in the originating IP block. For me and the forum the benefits outweighed the losses.
 
And then there's the spammers that spoof IP addresses and switch subnets and IP blocks. That's tons of fun. 

bitflipper

Willy Jones [Cakewalk]
If only 3 people flagged it - it would magically go away without waiting for us to do it.  Not to say we won't do it - but if it really drives you nuts flag it.  If two more people feel the same it will disappear forever without waiting for our intervention.

This is news to me. I'd assumed that once it was flagged there'd be no point in flagging it again.Knowing that all it takes it a quorum of 3 to automagically remove spam, well then I'd say problem solved.

Surely there's an inherent problem here - CW will never get "3 flags" because as soon as one is logged, you get the message Mettelus describes on post #34.

Exactly #34 (it does not work like this! ).
 

9:00 GMT tomorrow then.... The Ninja anti-spam warriors from Genghis Khan will be on standby. We shall, by the almighty powers given to us... will...  er... stand around and complain... or something... Show them the comfy chair... that 'ill teach 'em. Nobody expects .... Our chief element is surprise... er....
 

How about a simple filter like any post containing "+91" and "baba" ???

Subject or body... I think that might get almost all of them. Boolean logic.
 
Edit: I googled "site:forum.cakewalk.com "+91" AND "baba"" and got 346 hits, the first two pages were all his. (Well, actually this post is in there too )

When you see the post Flagged go to the bottom of the post and you'll see the check box now append a (1) or however many times it's been flagged. I'm just going around adding a 2nd spam flag to many of the posts.

He is posting every 60 seconds!

Get on there and start flagging for spam. 3 of us can stop him in his tracks.

I just flagged for all the spam messages. I hope I won't have to do this every day...