Spammers..., There is one among us. Options

[Box]

Cant tell which threads Ive read

Exactly, that's the worst part of it.

[ricochet1490]

does anybody have coomer's paypal?

I'm thinking we get together a collection, $2-5$ donations to someone reliable, and then paypal gift him the money saying "here, this should help keep the site open for a while, so PLEASE fix the spambot problem"

[Box]

It's only being done to get Coomer's attention so he can address issues that need resolved.

[SupraKid]

Pedalroom.com or something like that. I hate bothering the guy. I know he's busy. But still... It can't hurt to ask him, right?

Bull****. The guy has been "busy" for 3 years........

[smkr3w]

Sh*ts getting intense. Hope everything can be restored and fixed

[BonzaiCelica]

i fear as if this site will be turned off soon and then all the 6gc knowledge will be wiped off the face of the earth. better start saving these into pdf files or something

[Box]

All Coomer needs to do is give the current mods administrative control. 5 minutes of work for him?

[timmy2]

Guys, here are ponts of contact for Christian Coomer if you haven't tried to look up this stuff already:

His personal work site
http://cisforcoomer.com/

His LinkdIn profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/coomer

twitter:
http://twitter.com/coomer

flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coomer/

gmail account:
christiancoomer@gmail.com

and phone number:
(206) 849-5668

Seriously, if you didn't look for these points of contact, you should not be allowed to run a forum. Mods, I will call and email Christian and let him know that you want to take control of the site and update it with spam control as we on Pedalroom are running into the same thing.

[ricochet1490]

I followed him on twitter and tagged him in a tweet....

I still vote take collection to take care of expenses or whatever it takes to get some attention

This post has been edited by ricochet1490: Jul 30, 2012 - 11:29 PM

[Rusty]

timmy2 My apologies that he has spammed your site you are on, (I saw a screenshot of the threads he created). A better approach for you would have been to join and pm a mod about the issue & we would take further action. Thank you though for the contact notes for Coomer.

Timmyface Not a good move, what you should have done was created 1 thread in their website discussion section outlining the issue and wanting contact with Coomer, but instead you've created another mess for a mod/admin to clean up.

6GC members if your getting sick of heaps of notification emails...turn it off in the User CP

[Timmyface]

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This post has been edited by Timmyface: Aug 3, 2012 - 6:14 AM

[BonzaiCelica]

yea money would be of help. but sometimes money isn't everything. its more time to some people. thanks for the references to his contact timmy.

[richee3]

Great... They found the "New Topic" button.

[KAOS]

Great... They found the "New Topic" button.

ugh - my poor mailbox...

[ricochet1490]

It's like the movie dawn of the dead and the virus is spreading and becoming more and more problematic

[richee3]

I still vote take collection to take care of expenses or whatever it takes to get some attention

New tactic: I say we take the same collection but rather than pay Coomer, we hire a computer hacker and tell them to have fun.

Seriously, I'm trying to decide if I'm glad they figured out how to start new threads. At least now I can tell which real threads have new posts...

[rave2n]

I could fix the spam problem if Coomer didn't want 10k for the damn site.

[richee3]

Going through his old posts, most of the site is written in PHP but some of the updates are in Rails, so we definitely need somebody that knows those two types of code.

[Rusty]

There are a few types/forms of spambots we have, which post differently, depending where they are from.


1. posts 3-4 posts or new topics
2. posts 6-10 new topics
3. posts 200+ posts in any thread

[rave2n]

Just add further authentication while signing in, or have new users be approved.

Purge all the obvious bots.