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February 10, 2010

Spammer gets boot for spamming.

Spam

Fucking spambots.

 

You may have noticed it recently. I would have missed it if not for a post I was trying to work on. We had a spammer among our reviewers (No names, please. We already know who it is.). It managed to poison my Westworld review with drug adverts, and caused two other posts to “disappear” with HTML tags. I managed to clean up the review, but didn’t realize the tag-poisoning until I saw the source from the “Corporations-Are-People” piece. I was able to clean that story up, but deleted the sexbot story without checking the source. Hopefully, I can find it in a cache somewhere, or someone managed to copy/backup the piece.

After all that, one more cleanup: The spammer’s account has been deleted.

GTFO and STFO!

Asleep at the wheel. Having a spammer infect our site is one thing, but not paying attention…

Unfortunately, like with last year’s spam-outbreak on the forums, I have to take some of the blame for not keeping a closer eye on CPR. Somewhere between a 40 hour work week with a 45 mile daily commute round trip, Neocron sessions, digging out from three feet of snow from two storms in a week, and looking for media and stories to review and blog, I lost track of this site and allowed the spammer(s) to do their dirty work.

 

Extra eyes needed. As you can see (!), running a website is a full-time occupation. Not easy when you already have a full-time occupation like consulting or document imaging, and your second doesn’t come with a paycheck. This is where we can use some help from our regular visitors and registered users. If you see what appears to be spam, shoot a private message to me. I will check it out and, if need be, delete it.

In the mean time, I’m going to make it a point to visit every day even if I don’t have anything to post. Nothing worse than seeing a good site being smothered in spam.

Comments

February 10, 2010

Klaw said:

We’ll give you the 911, Mr. R.

February 12, 2010

Martin said:

The very same post contains spam in an “invisible” block? Do I miss something or is this sweet irony or has there been a poisoning again?

February 13, 2010

Jippen said:

Might want to update wordpress, and check your plugins/permissions. Seems that you’re still infested.

February 19, 2010

slikts said:

This post is filled with hidden spam links.

February 21, 2010

Sean said:

Hey man, what’s your nick in Neocron?

February 24, 2010

Dante said:

Man cats hehehe anyways this article stated that. To avoid spam as we can see running a website is a full-time occupation. Seeing a good site being smothered in spam. Thanks for the tips that you have shared to us more power to your site! God bless ;-)

Dante said:

Mean cats hehehe anyways this article stated that. To avoid spam as we can see running a website is a full-time occupation. Seeing a good site being smothered in spam. Thanks for the tips that you have shared to us more power to your site! God bless ;-)


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