Recent spam attacks

[in_sympathy]

Two things I have to say about all this spam we see lately:
1) it is in russian, so I wonder why MTO has become a target for their cyber attacks
2) maybe we should limit registration by adding simple questions, like name a company that invented a Swiss Army Knife or who was an inventor of a first poker based multitool. Could be a text box to collect an answer or could even be a selector from like 3 variants. Maybe if that sounds reasonable to you gents let’s have a discussion of like 10 questions we might ask newcomers in order to filter spammers

[Poncho65]

It isn't recent been getting Russian Spam (and several other countires) for many many years most of it gets filtered out quick enough that no one sees it

Always report anything you think seems suspicious though and it helps us keep MTO what it is

[Grant Lamontagne]

Years ago we got so much spam that I actually created a spam forum.

We deleted links and photos, moved the spam threads there and let members make fun of the spammers, tell them off, whatever they liked.

It was fun for a little while, at least.

Then we put better anti spam software in place and didn't have as much of a need for it.   

Def

[in_sympathy]

Roger that

Still what do you guys think about adding a few tool related questions to the registration form? Maybe that’d lure some of those spammers away

[Grant Lamontagne]

Absolutely something we can look into for sure.

I will have to check with Whoey to see what options are available to us before I promise anything more than that. 

 

Def

[pfrsantos]

Well, we could have them answering three questions before enterinng MTo, but that could be dangerous for us, too...



 

[in_sympathy]

Well, we could have them answering three questions before enterinng MTo, but that could be dangerous for us, too...



 

[WhichDawg]

Years ago we got so much spam that I actually created a spam forum.

We deleted links and photos, moved the spam threads there and let members make fun of the spammers, tell them off, whatever they liked.

It was fun for a little while, at least.

Def

I remember that, that was fun!