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I have adjusted the “threshold” that the site uses to identify spambots. It blocks certain attempts based on a variety of factors that it uses to determine if a user is suspicious. It is now set to be quite sensitive, which will hopefully filter out these spambots. The potential downside is that legitimate users may occasionally be flagged as bots and prevented from logging in. This is a matter of trial and error to find the sweet spot where only the spambots get blocked.
SO…if anyone has difficulty logging in, please email me at clay@clay-johnson.com to let me know, and I will get you logged in. Thanks for your patience as we try to get this resolved.
Kayla is already back again (with user name “Nelly”). I blocked this account too, but some of you may get PMs.
Latest account blocked. I have a couple ideas for stopping this, or at least minimizing it, which I will work on today or tomorrow.
Kayla is at it again. -_-
Kayla Noyes
Can you IP ban her?
Anytime there’s a spammer I add their IP address to our blacklist. That takes care of some of them, but the persistent ones just return using a different IP (or some method of disguising their IP).
Yet another spammer – Luz E. Powell hawking icemakers in the Food forum.
Thanks, I disabled that account.
Pauline the CREEPER is Back!!!!
She just set up another SPAM account 25 minutes ago as ‘Pauline0’ with ‘Pauline9’ as her name….
Thanks. I deleted her (again).
So it looks like Pauline4 sent out spam PMs just as I was blocking that account. Sorry for those of you who got one—just delete it.
Pauline is BACK Again!
A Pauline4 account just popped up again 46 minutes ago!!She is a Persistent Spammer!
Shes’s on now as ‘Pauline40’
The latest Pauline is a goner. Yes, I always block the IP addresses of spammers as we catch them, but this one must have a bunch of IPs that they’re using, because each new account is using a different IP, which makes it hard to stop. So there could be yet more Paulines to come. Thanks everyone for alerting me to these accounts!
What about this post under “General Art Discussion” – Why logos are important for brands
It was posted by rihannaluther and has a link which I did NOT click.
Definitely seems like spam. I flagged the topic and the user. Thanks!
And another: pauline
This is the email address she lists: paulineabuzer@yahoo.comAre you able to IP ban people?
Thanks, I flagged that account.
There is a new spam in Windstone it is from abinomark500 delete it, its a trap.
So there were spam PMs sent yesterday from “abino” and that user has been flagged as a spammer. I don’t see anything from “abinomark500.” Is that the name that’s displayed in your PM inbox?
New spammer on the block: abino
Taken care of. Thanks!
