The Great Spam War of Comic Vine II: United We Are Strong!

@cruelwinter: We all have lives and live in different timezones, we can't cover all timezones so sometimes there are times when no mods are online.

oh and don't flag ban the bots, on first look a flag ban looks the same as a forum ban for a mod so I'm having to double check every bot to make sure it's properly banned, just go about your normal forum lives.

It is now more important than ever that this thread be first page. 3 or so pages of ComicVine are filled with the recent spam.

I AM ALIVE, this is the only sane post left and i had to travel 3-4 pages to come here. It seems we are losing the war any alive brothers\sisters left?

@mysticmedivh: Only flag new accounts. We have the old ones

And DON'T bloody post on the spam threads!

Whoever is doing this can burn in the deepest pits of hell

We can do this guys, keep hope

Clear!

@wildvine: Sorry, won't happen again

It's that time of the year already? Guess its open season again. Seems like they're going wild.

Less than 10 minutes and this is already in the 3rd page..

@giliad_: More of a general admonishment. Its for the protection of your account

Stay strong brothers

Me while this spam thing is going on.

This always happens around the summer holidays.

@wildvine: Let them come! I have the finest mods at my side, Ooh Rah! (Ps- thanks for the tip)

Bump

Send additional forces thr dbz forum, we're being overwhelmed.

Clear.

Chill guys, all will be well.

I can't take it anymore, so many spam threads...

@the_stegman: Nah we're all screwed

Off Topic has been reclaimed.

No you fool, we must save every thread, every place, no matter if is Batman, off-topic, Dragon Ball or even that stupid rpg place, we must not falter just because the odds are against us.

Off topic forums have been cleansed, hazzah!

Seems like another wave is coming.

How long did the last spam flood last and was it also from india?anybody?

@mindleech said:

Seems like another wave is coming.

How long did the last spam flood last and was it also from india?anybody?

I can't recall exact but its usually about 24-36h thing and then it drops down to sporadic incursions that may last all week.

For now...

Can't the mods ip ban them?

Nope. Only the engineers can ip ban. I assume they have reasons for not resorting to that

@rustyroy: Dynamic IP's aren't worth blocking.

I think we r winning the war.

Doesn't look like that.

@rustyroy: Why?

I cann't see any spammers.

Mods ban them, they keep coming back

Can you IP ban NoHate?

@rustyroy: because we told mods to banned them.

Again, only engineers can ip ban.

@wildvine: Can you ask them to?

@wildvine:

Thanks.

Contests has some leftover spam btw.

So just to make it clear, what you're saying is that in the event of a spambot attack in which no moderators are present or online, one should not get a bunch of people to flag the bots so they're karmabanned and cannot post, but instead leave it be and let the mods handle it when they come online?

(Temporary) Victory!

Wow, I was off the vine all weekend and it looks like I missed the whole place burning down?

Actually I never thought about that. Flag bans look just like mods bans unless you go to the profile

@wildvine:

By that you mean the red border around one's avatar?