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Started by Irisado, April 01, 2020, 04:04:29 PM

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Irisado

Taking a look at the member list by most recent date registered, I see a few problems: https://secondsphere.org/index.php?action=mlist;sort=registered;start=0;desc.  If you hover the mouse over the web sites of a lot of these members they are linking to porn, spam, or other dodgy sites.  Could these accounts be deleted?  Also, and I know this has been discussed before, I really think that more effective measures need to be introduced to stop spammers from being able to register.
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Narric

I sadly don't have permission to delete profiles. If I could, I'd do a lot of pruning of the user registry.

I've cleared a number of accounts, but anything larger scale would require higher permissions than what I have :P

Irisado

Thanks for cleaning off the spam websites from the accounts though.  This does help the situation somewhat.
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Sorck

We have a number of independent measures in place to mitigate illicit registrations. We've stopped thousands of registrations over the last year.

I will investigate terminating accounts that have no post history and haven't been used recently. This should clear up most old spam accounts.

Irisado

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Narric

Is there a way we could delete the numerous accounts with zero posts?

A swear a number of these older ones I've found had nothing on them on a previous pass through, and now they have links offsite.

Irisado

If you have access to the admin panel, purging accounts is straightforward.
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Narric

At present I can only ban, and only one account at a time. When I looked, we have about 15 memberlist pages of accounts with zero posts (just over 400 accounts). Not to mention I can see there are a number of accounts waiting for approval and activation.

Irisado

You need Sorck to execute his administration priveledges and purge some accounts in that case ;).
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Irisado

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Sorck

I have purged many questionable accounts. We have reportedly blocked over 250k spammers via one of our methods.

Irisado

Thank you :).  That is an awful lot of spammers that have been blocked.
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Irisado

Soñando con una playa donde brilla el sol, un arco iris ilumina el cielo, y el mar espejea iridescentemente