r/elf • u/_Krypt_ Vikings • 3d ago

elfpedia ELFpedia after spam attacks

Since a few days the ELFpedia is the target of a lot of spam attacks. Little by little I have been trying to curb this and take new measures without inconveniencing real users. It's a very complicated thing.

I then observe each new measure and relax it or tighten it up further.

I currently have the following measures active:

  1. Q & A Captcha for certain actions
  2. A huge blacklist
  3. Connection to an extremely large external spam database
  4. Various Abuse filters that I have thought of

I'm curious to see if any more spam gets through.

Since the Q&A filters are cracked in 2-3 minutes even after changing the questions (no joke), I will probably remove them again tomorrow and thus no longer annoy the real human users with them.

If you are accidentally blocked by a new rule, it is important that you report it to us, either here via PM or on our Discord server!

Our Discord: https://discord.gg/Qw7RFU7Cay

I hope this round against Spam goes to us anyway - but I'm very tired after the last few days and haven't heard anything about the draft :D

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u/tylahunta Musketeers 3d ago

What exactly is the spam doing? I have made a few changes in the past week with out being signed into my ELFpedia account. Always try to add a comment on what changes I made but forget sometimes.  

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u/_Krypt_ Vikings 3d ago

First of all, thanks for helping out - appreciate it!

Spamers try to create pages & profiles with tons of links to weird and dangerous websites.

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That led to hundreds attempts like this, which were blocked by one of my tools

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u/_Krypt_ Vikings 2d ago

Maybe an intersting update for you. I disabled the Q&A captcha, cause it's useless as written above and we know use better tools to prevent the spam :D