Shell64 Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 There have been some strange spammers and I’m surprised some aren’t banned. Tompeter for example is still posting for sale ads, and has hundreds of posts for only that. Gujarish is also bad and copied and pasted reddit posts. I don’t think he posts anymore. This is is the wackiest spammer I’ve ever seen:https://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/27358-necklace-good-sized-quantities-34-a-brokerage-a-warrior-intricate-mastery/?tab=comments#comment-239500 Mako Sports 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webrunner5 Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 I really don't have a problem with Tompeter. He actually Might have something I would buy. Although not exactly giving stuff away. His, her posts are not crazy or offensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mako Sports Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Lol EOSHD getting raided by spammers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronFilm Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 20 hours ago, Shell64 said: There have been some strange spammers and I’m surprised some aren’t banned. Tompeter for example is still posting for sale ads, and has hundreds of posts for only that. I've been complaining off and on about Tompeter for ages now :-/ ? Makes the entire subforum somewhat useless to visit, as such a large chunk of it is spam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted July 30, 2019 Administrators Share Posted July 30, 2019 How the process works... Millions of Russian and Chinese A.I. bots register at forums around the world, beating down the first line defence (Captcha) Most are obvious when they make their first post. The first post from new registrations here are completely hidden to you guys and only shown for me so I can filter them out. I read the post and make a judgement on whether it's a real person or not. 99% it's easy. 1% of the time, a more sophisticated bot like you describe here will slip through but doing a cut and paste or convincing camera related topic. This is where I need your help. If you spot repeated behaviour like this and you think it's a bot, please flag them in this topic or email me! leslie and Geoff_L 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Good to hear from you Andrew. For awhile, I think a few of us were convinced you might have been napping. I'm sure most of us will be happy to help contribute to a spam free forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shell64 Posted July 30, 2019 Author Share Posted July 30, 2019 47 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said: How the process works... Millions of Russian and Chinese A.I. bots register at forums around the world, beating down the first line defence (Captcha) Most are obvious when they make their first post. The first post from new registrations here are completely hidden to you guys and only shown for me so I can filter them out. I read the post and make a judgement on whether it's a real person or not. 99% it's easy. 1% of the time, a more sophisticated bot like you describe here will slip through but doing a cut and paste or convincing camera related topic. This is where I need your help. If you spot repeated behaviour like this and you think it's a bot, please flag them in this topic or email me! I’ll let you know if any others. Other than one person recently spamming leveled have seemed to go down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted July 30, 2019 Administrators Share Posted July 30, 2019 There are very few spammers on the forum, just a few bots slipped through the net that's all. But I still need help identifying problematic accounts, so you know where to post reports now - in this thread. Would be great, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shell64 Posted July 30, 2019 Author Share Posted July 30, 2019 Will do. You should pin it so the thread doesn’t get lost. You should possibly ban tompeter and TimNJack, whose posts are the weirdest I’ve ever seen. Did you already ban Gujarish? https://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/27098-new-canon-ef-lens-to-mft-speed-booster-on-bmpcc/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webrunner5 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 You mean "I found a solution to my problem" guy lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronFilm Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 14 hours ago, Andrew Reid said: There are very few spammers on the forum, just a few bots slipped through the net that's all. But I still need help identifying problematic accounts, so you know where to post reports now - in this thread. Would be great, thanks. Please deal with this account: https://www.eoshd.com/comments/profile/45696-tompeter/ This isn't someone who "barely interacts" in the main forums, but has zero interaction with other members in any other threads. His account purely exists to spam the For Sale Subforum. With all his links promoting hotdigital-international (& others) eBay accounts. (just done by an automated bot I'm sure) Perhaps if he was posting really good deals then his spamming would be tolerable, but they're not. Every time you might click through to look at the auction you just think "meh", they're never even close to the best deal you could get on eBay. And the volume and which this bot account posts to the For Sale Subforum is so high that it spams the forum with unnecessary posts, diluting down the actually relevant For Sale posts made by forum contributors here. thebrothersthre3 and Cinegain 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shell64 Posted July 31, 2019 Author Share Posted July 31, 2019 8 minutes ago, IronFilm said: Please deal with this account: https://www.eoshd.com/comments/profile/45696-tompeter/ This isn't someone who "barely interacts" in the main forums, but has zero interaction with other members in any other threads. His account purely exists to spam the For Sale Subforum. With all his links promoting hotdigital-international (& others) eBay accounts. (just done by an automated bot I'm sure) Perhaps if he was posting really good deals then his spamming would be tolerable, but they're not. Every time you might click through to look at the auction you just think "meh", they're never even close to the best deal you could get on eBay. And the volume and which this bot account posts to the For Sale Subforum is so high that it spams the forum with unnecessary posts, diluting down the actually relevant For Sale posts made by forum contributors here. YES. This guy needs to be banned. A lot of the spammers though aren’t active. But tompeter just won’t stop. Please ban. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shell64 Posted August 1, 2019 Author Share Posted August 1, 2019 I just downvoted a bunch of tompeters posts. You all should do it too, as this guy hasn’t been banned but keeps spamming the for sale section Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webrunner5 Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 Trust me, he sort of grows on you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shell64 Posted August 1, 2019 Author Share Posted August 1, 2019 Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Members BTM_Pix Posted August 1, 2019 Super Members Share Posted August 1, 2019 Tom is the constant in a turbulent world. No matter what personal or national or worldwide setback befalls us, we know that the sun will still rise tomorrow and Tom Peter will still be linking to mediocre listings on eBay. He's the touchstone we all need. Shell64, leslie and webrunner5 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shell64 Posted August 2, 2019 Author Share Posted August 2, 2019 We will all be comforted by tompeter’s warm, glowing for sale ad in the midst of a dark, discouraging world... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webrunner5 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 40 minutes ago, Shell64 said: We will all be comforted by tompeter’s warm, glowing for sale ad in the midst of a dark, discouraging world... Ah, you Finally get it lol. Peace and Serenity. Butterflies and well...Hmm, flying pigs. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 1 hour ago, webrunner5 said: Ah, you Finally get it lol. Peace and Serenity. Butterflies and well...Hmm, flying pigs. ? flying pigs is going a bit far....unless of course you have a trebuchet handy. ? personally he doesn't bother me much, but i dont go looking for bargains in the for sale section either. But i have to wonder what sort of bandwidth his for sale ads and web space cost andrew . Of course no one is talking about the elephant in the room, maybe its actually andrew. Perhaps c-log and pro log aren't selling so well and andrews had to diversify times are tough after all and britex is coming up.? webrunner5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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