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New spammers! - Needs death ray ;-)

Alex

Sundar Nath

Dhvaj Kumar

Does iRobot need a kick in the pants :-) He is slipping ...

Update 8/26/15

Some more!

Herb Wraps This guy has a guide in process that needs to be pulled as well!

Pranay Ashish

Taniya Sharma

Abhishek Mishra

sudeep

Pranay Sudeep

techlolo

Update >> 8/27/15

Today's catch:

Nick Harison

Got one that's posting guides like crazy & Q's! Johny. How do we kill off the guide stubs he has created?

I think we need to limit guides to three as this is just to much!

Update (09/03/2015)

More coming at us!

Jazz Smith

Update (09/04/2015)

Here's another one today: Jakky Jain

Update (09/08/2015)

Here's today's catch:

Varun Kumar Yadav

Update (09/15/2015)

Here's a new one: yuanyueqi0

Update (09/16/2015)

Scotty! The force field is failing, there're getting in!

Many have managed to get in over 20 entries each! This morning.

Still more this morning!

awwwteda10

yhtrjyswjky1

sdfafefa01

ugvqwned9

Update (09/26/2015)

Boy they are getting weird now ;-} Here's this mornings find: Email Technical Help

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Ouch, today is not a good day for the spam filter... We're working on bopping these guys as quickly as we can find them.

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@Sam - Can we try to add a means to select multiple questions under the person history view to delete en-mass? It does get tiring having to select one by one to rid the mess. I suspect these bozo's are using some means to create the questions through a script. If you look at the time stamps I can't see someone posting by hand so quickly.

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@Sam - Didn't we scale back the number of question postings for first day to help reduce some of this attack? Many of these bozo's are new members today.

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We were hoping the filter would catch these. We may have to drop the first day limit if we can't make our filter smarter.

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New accounts, or postings? If you mean posts, then that will probably annoy innocent people too.

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Here are some I deleted earlier:

https://www.ifixit.com/User/Activity/131...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1310604/alex

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1310612/smit...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1310613/web+...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1310614/davi...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/Activity/131...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1310642/micl...

UPDATE 8/26/15

Today new batch

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1312026/pran... https://www.ifixit.com/User/1312070/wils... https://www.ifixit.com/User/1312065/alan... https://www.ifixit.com/User/1312056/Sink... https://www.ifixit.com/User/1312141/gand...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1312166/tech...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1312177/Dare...

UPDATE 8/27

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1313508/thom...

UPDATE 8/28

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1314794/tfnu...

UPDATE 9/7

https://www.ifixit.com/User/Activity/132...

UPDATE 9/8

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1326460/dhva...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1310799/Varu...

UPDATE 9/9

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1327754/dhva...

UPDATE 9/10

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1329155/swee...

UPDATE 9/11

https://www.ifixit.com/User/Activity/132...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/Graph/132978...

also a bogus guide: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Call...

UPDATE

9/15

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1334270/twam...

also 8 bogus guides

9/25

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1345398/acej...

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Banned. We rolled out some new tech this afternoon that may help.

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Keep on rolling.

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Thanks for your help guys! I deleted a dozen of these guys yesterday, too. And there are more today. We're working on cleaning things up as I post =)

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Why don't you ban their WAN IP and move on? It shouldn't be hard to do, and it wouldn't break your ethics like banning their MAC address.

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It's pretty easy to use randomized IP addresses, so that doesn't work so well. We have a number of other approaches to the problem that we're deploying.

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Fair enough. Thought I'd at least give you the idea to try. I only suggested banning the WAN IP, since the WAN IP is separate from the LAN IP.

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https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Lexmark+Pri...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/1330905/netg...

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Banned. Thanks!

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@ Kyle is there a way to add a spammer tag to the guides. These guys seem to have found a means to post something we can't easily mark and then pull.

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They're probably making the permissions to modify this crap super high now. For now, put [SPAM] in the title for spam.

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If we need to, we'll build some more tooling for you. In the meantime, you can go in to edit the guide and add the 'request guide deletion' flag.

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I set the guide I linked in a way that makes it harder for the spammer to try and edit it further without needing moderation. I hope that does the trick to make this easier to kill, and hard for the spammer to keep editing. It's worth a try.

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https://www.ifixit.com/User/1330905/netg...

New spammer. Last answer on this got deleted by the spam bot :/

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Nick these folks are not the real NetGear. They are leveraging the name NetGear in their name NetGearRouterHelp. Here's the real NetGear. This is a paid helpline service and their practices are questionable.

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That's why I posted it here, under spam.

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