Timeline for Spambots promoting personal enhancement products, can we better defend against them?
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| Aug 25, 2020 at 10:05 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Jul 26, 2020 at 9:58 | answer | added | Glorfindel | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:32 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://superuser.com/ with https://superuser.com/
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| Jul 16, 2015 at 4:19 | history | edited | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2015 at 4:14 | history | edited | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 15, 2015 at 11:31 | comment | added | Ian | @FranciscoTapia yeah, I hate Captcha, but then Google's new one looks much cleaner. | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 14:49 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | This isn't really a problem that is specific to SU, and you can bet that people at SE are looking into options of what can be done to stop spam. SE already blocks a very substantial amount of spam at source and what you see is largely just the tiny amount that manages to slip through. The best you can do is to help out by continuously flagging spam for the system to learn from. It's not just you the spam annoys, but we need to remain open to the majority so that everyone is able to get help when they need it, some spam is the price we pay. Just sit back and get you some processed meat product. | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 5:33 | history | edited | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 13, 2015 at 5:28 | history | edited | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 10, 2015 at 17:35 | comment | added | Francisco Tapia | Human Verification could be the answer, but is annoying and some bot systems are enough smart to jump that verifications. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 16:07 | comment | added | Ajedi32 | Just keep flagging as spam. Eventually SE's anti-spam systems will learn and start blocking these posts: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/286615/1157054 | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 16:20 | comment | added | Parthian Shot | Might be worthwhile to expand the list of keywords that automatically flag questions for moderator attention during the hours spam tends to persist longest (i.e. when people are asleep on the east coast). | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 16:18 | comment | added | Parthian Shot | @fixer1234 The fact that a human created the account or completed the captcha doesn't necessarily mean the machine isn't a bot... | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 17:15 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/super_user/status/617381238358298624 | ||
| Jul 4, 2015 at 3:47 | comment | added | fixer1234 | These aren't bots or infected computers. In most of these posts, a human registers on the site prior to posting. | |
| Jul 3, 2015 at 6:02 | comment | added | John Dvorak | This is a long-standing network-wide issue. Sit tight and have something to bite. | |
| Jul 3, 2015 at 5:23 | history | edited | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 3, 2015 at 4:53 | history | edited | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 3, 2015 at 4:46 | history | asked | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |