Spam/bots : How to report them
Sep. 24th, 2010 10:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gribouilleIn less than a week French LJ communities have had "attacks" by bots. They register themselves under names such as "carinadelgado" or "ashleypetersen" and join a great number of communities (over 900 for "carinadelgado", all with open-to-all posting access). Next thing you know, you open your Friends' page to see 5 or 6 repeats of the same post, with a porn video for all to view (to be perfectly honest, I didn't check if it was porn, but the title and the preview image were retty self-explanatory). Even just one is already annoying enough.
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ylg has a very handy post here about how to report those. If not, here is its translation in English :
=> if you're a member of the targeted community, or just someone who happened to pass by :
1) Report the bot here : http://www.livejournal.com/abuse/bots.bml
2) Report every single one of the spam posts you saw here : http://www.livejournal.com/abuse/report.bml
3) Warn the moderators of said LJ community.
If someone could make a post compiling the different links towards the posts on the targeted communities (in case of a massive "attack" such as those that happened to the French comms), it could be very handy - this way, everyone can report the same links at once, which would hopefully make LJ react faster.ylg did it last week (thanks again !) and it proved rather effective.
=> if you're a moderator of the targeted community :
1) Report the robot here : http://www.livejournal.com/abuse/bots.bml
2) Ban the user here : http://www.livejournal.com/manage/banusers.bml
3) Delete the post by clicking on "Edit", which should enable you to "delete and report as spam". If the bot responsible for it doesn't allow you to comment on its entry, you can still access it by clicking directly on the post's title, or via the community's archive.
This should also work against those so-called Russian spambots and their magazines covers.
Thank you for reading this (and sorry if my English is not the best), and please pass the information around if you can. Normally, this should help to get rid of the bots quickly enough. Until they strike again.
Thanks again !
If you speak French,
ylg has a very handy post here about how to report those. If not, here is its translation in English :=> if you're a member of the targeted community, or just someone who happened to pass by :
1) Report the bot here : http://www.livejournal.com/abuse/bots.bml
2) Report every single one of the spam posts you saw here : http://www.livejournal.com/abuse/report.bml
3) Warn the moderators of said LJ community.
If someone could make a post compiling the different links towards the posts on the targeted communities (in case of a massive "attack" such as those that happened to the French comms), it could be very handy - this way, everyone can report the same links at once, which would hopefully make LJ react faster.
ylg did it last week (thanks again !) and it proved rather effective.=> if you're a moderator of the targeted community :
1) Report the robot here : http://www.livejournal.com/abuse/bots.bml
2) Ban the user here : http://www.livejournal.com/manage/banusers.bml
3) Delete the post by clicking on "Edit", which should enable you to "delete and report as spam". If the bot responsible for it doesn't allow you to comment on its entry, you can still access it by clicking directly on the post's title, or via the community's archive.
This should also work against those so-called Russian spambots and their magazines covers.
Thank you for reading this (and sorry if my English is not the best), and please pass the information around if you can. Normally, this should help to get rid of the bots quickly enough. Until they strike again.
Thanks again !
