Computer Social Experiment gone wrong MooBunny site Broken

[dammy]

I don't believe it's broken, Squid took the Amiga side down (General is stilll up but with spam posts) till he can figure things out.   In the short term, he could limit post to once in a 5 minute time period with time stamp on it, duplicate or empty post checker,  and block a few of the overly abused/known proxy IPs.

[dammy]

You can't. There is this thing called proxies (and tor).

reCAPTCHA would be an effective solution to cut down the scripted spam, at least. It shouldn't be too hard to add it to site like moo.

But is it scripted spam on Moo?  I really don't think so.

Dammy

[dammy]

To expand on this, there were two spammers, which may have been the same individual. The first would pop up and crapflood the messageboard with one-shot nonsense posts. That's being going on for many months.

More recently, a second spammer appeared, who would mass inject threads with the alleged intent of "clearing out" the other spam by pushing it off the index. Which, of course, it didn't, it simply compounded the original problem that regular threads were lost amid the noise.

As a long time reader of the board, I got a bit sick of this and wrote a simple filter which I hosted on my own server that filtered content based on repetitive subject titles (with some logic thrown in to catch minor variations thereof).

I used this for a little while and decided to share it as the volume of regular threads was diminishing, due to the constant crapflooding making it tedious to locate recent posts.

The second spammer decided this was an unacceptable affront to his right to subject everybody to his crapflooding and that, despite only using the content of the index (which does not show user or IP address), that it was somehow it was targeting him.

He tried a few trivially-countered variations before recognising the fact that a repetition filter won't handle completely random spam and subsequently flooded the place with that, instead.

And his script flooded every single subboard on Moo.  Formal complaints should be posted by Squid and Dreamhosters to his ISP, they have to keep records of his activity of what proxies he has been using.  If anything they might stop giving him a discount and charge him full rates for internet access.

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[dammy]

And how are you going to find out which ISP he is using?

Once the Amiga section is up, google his post from 2011, that should give you his real IP.  Karlos probably has records from AO dating from a year ago as well.

Dammy

[dammy]

How can you prove it's the same guy?

His was using a static IP last year.  If it is him, his ISP should have logs showing him connecting to the proxy server(s) that was used in the recent attack on Moo during the recent attack.