Zombie posts

[bachphi]

Archie,

There are too many zombie posts lately and it's really annoying. 
Can you take a look at the process of creating a new username and see if you can beef it up. 
Have a moderator to kill & ban these types of posts. 
Do not allow a new username the ability to post until at least  a few days later.

[Archie]

This has been truly annoying. I try my best to keep up and delete them as soon as I see them. I will see if I can make the account creation more stringent.

[pal]

[dmroeder]

I submitted 6 or 7 spam posts.

How often are new users registering?

Edit: I guess I can just look at the member list to get an idea.

[Archie]

I submitted 6 or 7 spam posts.

How often are new users registering?

Edit: I guess I can just look at the member list to get an idea.

There are probably an average of a couple legitimate registrations each day.

[dmroeder]

I went to the member list, sorted by join date, most of them have zero posts and an obvious spam signature.

I think the angle here, even for the ones that never post is pagerank gaming.  They join a bunch of forums (probably a bot), add a signature with a hyperlink they are trying to boost in search, the more times the signature appears, the better the search results are.

If you want a moderator, I'd help clean these up.

[bachphi]

Great job so far!!

[dmroeder]

One thing I'd like to do is is go through the recent members and delete the signatures of the obvious nonsense ones. Mods can't do that though.  You can look at the member list, if they haver zero posts and the website icon, they have a garbage link in their signature.  I think those will just exist forever, with no posts, simply to game search results.

I went through a portion of the member list the other night, check anyone who only had 1 or 2 posts.  There were some borderline posts that I left alone.  I deleted several posts.

[bachphi]

In related to this post: https://www.advancedhmi.com/forum/index.php?topic=1823.msg18327#msg18327

Are they going to AI now or some sort? not sure what the removed link was.

[dmroeder]

I think you are right, use AI to try to generate a post that matches the context.

That post got me thinking, maybe I should save a copy of the original somewhere, in case I was wrong.  I have removed a few posts, I left the one you linked but removed the hyperlink from it.  I think it was some sort of course, something like that. I didn't visit it, it didn't seem relevant to the post.

[bachphi]

It looks like we started a war with the zombies now and they are going hi-tech with AI.
We'll see what happens.

[bachphi]

All quiet on the western front!

Looked like they did not want to mess with the EnforClerks Jay & Silent Bob.
Oh Wait, new avatar change to Olaf Metal guy.

[dmroeder]

All quiet on the western front!

Looked like they did not want to mess with the EnforClerks Jay & Silent Bob.
Oh Wait, new avatar change to Olaf Metal guy.

^ this guy gets it!

Berserker!

I originally removed 7 or 8 posts, then a couple here and there.  There haven't been any the in a week, though there are still new spam accounts created here and there.