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As you may have seen we seem to be getting spammed by a Chinese member or bot. We are aware of the issue but appreciate you reporting anything that you see. We are looking at whether this is a member using the regular join route or a bot of some sort
 
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As you may have seen we seem to be getting spammed by a Chinese member or bot. We are aware of the issue but appreciate you reporting anything that you see. We are looking at whether this is a member using the regular join route or a bot of some sort
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Yes they are on F-book too and spamming some of the Flightsim pages , very annoying ~ :(
 
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Thanks - I have banned the user and removed posts

Difficult to catch them all when they register :(
 
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Thanks - I have banned the user and removed posts

Difficult to catch them all when they register :(
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It seems like you would want to catch them using a filter that immediately blocks any postings for any user whatsoever, if they post more than three messages within the course of 15 seconds, pending administrative review. If something like that existed or could be invented, it would stop them dead in their tracks, with little inconvenience to all but the most impetuous members.
 
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What frightened me was the number of views they got. Really!? Some people actually clicked on them!
 
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There is a check in the forum already that you can't post new messages within 30 seconds. But I guess an automated bot is smart enough to just wait long enough to work around that.
 
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What frightened me was the number of views they got. Really!? Some people actually clicked on them!
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It is likely that everything had been automated, including page clicks.

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There is a check in the forum already that you can't post new messages within 30 seconds. But I guess an automated bot is smart enough to just wait long enough to work around that.
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Bot wars? Are you implying that unnamed spammers using a language that appears to be Chinese, can write smarter spam bots, than FSDeveloper can write forum rules enforcement bots?

If new posters were forced to endure the delay and promise of a manual physical review, before any content was posted, how many bot spammers would wait around to find out if the review threat was a bluff, or would configure their software to post meaningful messages about flight simming, before launching into spam attacks?
 
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