[hibernate-dev] Spam on the Hibernate forum

[Sanne Grinovero]

Hi Vlad,
we have lots of spam, being added every day.
We try to cleanup regularly and when an account is clearly just
spamming I always it him "for life" but they just keep creating new
accounts, even though our Captcha is very complex.

The only thing we can do is to keep cleaning regularly: the less the
adverts are online, the less those people get paid and will move to
forums. Unfortunately our SEO scores are very high being a specialized
forum so new groups keep trying.. I suspect this because of having
observed the IP addressed last summer.

Some of us start their day with 5 minutes forum cleanup, then 20
minutes helping on some questions.. in the weekends you probably see
it at its worst as for example in my case I might not clean at all, or
do a quick check much later than normal.

Sanne

On 5 December 2015 at 09:41, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw there is some spam posting on the forum:
>
> https://forum.hibernate.org/search.php?search_id=unanswered
>
> Can we block the users to avoid sending more advertising links?
>
> Vlad
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