What is going on with the bots this last 24 hours? There are so many wall posts that Beanies are just a few per page. Technology is a trip. How do bots make accounts to post on the wall? Tech Beanies, is there a way to make a bot that removes bot accounts? Whoa…I just had an I, Robot flash.
Mary said that she has been super busy and hasn’t been able to do her usual daily sweeps and unfortunately if she tightened security to prevent them from posting it would also affect our ability to post content. Poor Mary has her hands full 😭
The tech that removes bots or stops them from spamming is the spam filter. It’s just that it’s not accurate and needs human intervention. 😭 It has three levels of response:
1. Auto-delete stuff it is sure is 100% spam. (We never get to see these.)
2. Put stuff it thinks is spam in a spam folder. (Admins can see these and unspam them if incorrectly filed.)
3. Allow a comment through if it thinks it’s not spam.
If there were no spam filters, you’ll be seeing something like 500-1000 spam from lvl2 every day. (That’s the amount we sift through manually just in case a real beanie gets stuck inside by mistake!)
Lvl3 numbers are more tame. Maybe 500 a day..? That includes all the fanwall posts and replies and blog comments. We also sift through these in case a spam gets through by mistake.
If the spammers have a recognizable pattern, I change the spam filter to detect them. But they change their tactics too so the cycle repeats itself.
We can also add new tech to the site that will make spam detection easier, but I’d need to drop all my duties for maybe 1 month to work on it which isn’t feasible. ☹️ So we’re locked in an endless battle with spam for now, only fighting small fires as they pop up.
Thankfully, they post stupid links that beanies won’t click. My nightmare is eventually the spam-makers will learn to manipulate beanies and start posting fake clickbaity urls like “Sompi article: Song Jae-rim marries long-time fan Mary” 😱
thatstp
June 3, 2019 at 1:31 PM
What is going on with the bots this last 24 hours? There are so many wall posts that Beanies are just a few per page. Technology is a trip. How do bots make accounts to post on the wall? Tech Beanies, is there a way to make a bot that removes bot accounts? Whoa…I just had an I, Robot flash.
UmbrellaMan
June 3, 2019 at 4:06 PM
Mary said that she has been super busy and hasn’t been able to do her usual daily sweeps and unfortunately if she tightened security to prevent them from posting it would also affect our ability to post content. Poor Mary has her hands full 😭
thatstp
June 4, 2019 at 7:25 PM
It’s always a double-edged sword. I appreciate @mary and all her hard work. I can just scroll past it.
mary
June 4, 2019 at 9:07 PM
I did some cleaning yesterday, and the new spammers are actually gmail accounts so they might be real people actually copy-pasting stuff. 🙁
thatstp
June 5, 2019 at 4:59 AM
Like those people whose job it is to “like” or “comment” on social media accts, wow.
mary
June 5, 2019 at 11:10 AM
It’s kinda sad how human psychology + how we use internet created those jobs :'(
mary
June 4, 2019 at 9:37 PM
The tech that removes bots or stops them from spamming is the spam filter. It’s just that it’s not accurate and needs human intervention. 😭 It has three levels of response:
1. Auto-delete stuff it is sure is 100% spam. (We never get to see these.)
2. Put stuff it thinks is spam in a spam folder. (Admins can see these and unspam them if incorrectly filed.)
3. Allow a comment through if it thinks it’s not spam.
If there were no spam filters, you’ll be seeing something like 500-1000 spam from lvl2 every day. (That’s the amount we sift through manually just in case a real beanie gets stuck inside by mistake!)
Lvl3 numbers are more tame. Maybe 500 a day..? That includes all the fanwall posts and replies and blog comments. We also sift through these in case a spam gets through by mistake.
If the spammers have a recognizable pattern, I change the spam filter to detect them. But they change their tactics too so the cycle repeats itself.
We can also add new tech to the site that will make spam detection easier, but I’d need to drop all my duties for maybe 1 month to work on it which isn’t feasible. ☹️ So we’re locked in an endless battle with spam for now, only fighting small fires as they pop up.
Thankfully, they post stupid links that beanies won’t click. My nightmare is eventually the spam-makers will learn to manipulate beanies and start posting fake clickbaity urls like “Sompi article: Song Jae-rim marries long-time fan Mary” 😱
thatstp
June 5, 2019 at 5:00 AM
LMAOOOOO!!! That would make me click so fast I might sprain my index finger!
mary
June 5, 2019 at 6:11 AM
Nuuu~ don’t click! We’ll announce it on the blog and not elsewhere. DB gets first dibs on the scoop. LOL
thatstp
June 5, 2019 at 11:03 AM
😂😂😂