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Old 4th April 2013, 03:09 PM
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Over the course of about an hour, we had: Typesesse with 56 posts, Rombamare with 62, and Autoncoginiot taking the biscuit with 85 - Not one related to photography, even digital
Just to give an idea between 10:30 and 11:15 last night I deleted about 400 posts from the three mentioned. I also contacted Bob and Barry as although I can delete spam posts only an Administrator can block the spammers. I felt like Canute trying to hold back the tide! Glad Bob was able to sort it out and Thanks for all his work.

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Old 4th April 2013, 04:56 PM
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Just to give an idea between 10:30 and 11:15 last night I deleted about 400 posts from the three mentioned. I also contacted Bob and Barry as although I can delete spam posts only an Administrator can block the spammers. I felt like Canute trying to hold back the tide! Glad Bob was able to sort it out and Thanks for all his work.

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Me too... couldn't do anything but give up and go to bed... But Bob was on the case! Thanks Bob.
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Big pat on the back to all the mods and admin from me. Great work from you all.
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Old 14th April 2013, 08:23 AM
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Us ordinary punters are clearly not aware of all the work that goes on in the background to keep this forum what it is. I was completely unaware of this attack - more credit to the moderators.
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Looks like those spammers left an echo of their work. Perusing the articles forum, I find a whole load of dead links to "Featured Articles". See screenshot:
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Old 1st May 2013, 03:30 PM
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Looks like those spammers left an echo of their work. Perusing the articles forum, I find a whole load of dead links to "Featured Articles". See screenshot:
Thanks Paul - I had not noticed that.

Seems the cache for those parts of the Articles section is unflushable (despite there being a "flush module's caches" tool in the control panel).

I have switched the cache off for them which seems the best I can do for now. For some reason this makes the "Featured Articles" module disappear but that's looks like the price we have to pay...


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