I am looking at iMacro, thanks for the suggestion. My initial attempts
this morning have failed because it seems to want a concrete starting
URL. So, when I recorded a script to delete the currently displayed
spam, what it really recorded was "navigate to the current URL", now do
what you want. Looks like I can probably set the search URL, try to
scrape all of the results, and then I can probably use those results to
navigate to each found SPAM message and delete it. That would at least
allow me to remove a chunk at a time. If that works, then I can expand
the macro. I suppose that a first step would be search, remove the first
found. I could then "rinse and repeat" but it would be much faster to
scrape all results first. It can take up to 60 seconds to delete a
single spam (because the forum can run slow).
Do you think that I would have better luck automating with greasemonkey?
I suppose that would be a reason to learn JavaScript. I mean, I have
used JavaScript, but I would not say that I know Java Script. I know
many languages, and when you know a bunch of languages already, and you
need to simply make a change to existing code with a mostly standard
syntax (ie, it is not something odd ball like APL), it does not take
much to make minor bug fixes.
On 09/01/2014 12:15 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
This might sound a bit out there, but a greasemonkey script can be done to
program the check out and delete of all the post related to the handful of
nicks.
That way it could automated and ran all night.
Another extension is iMacros
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imacros-for-firefox/
Which I guess is near your field Mr Macros guy ;)
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <
and...@pitonyak.org> wrote:
Although I am able to remove the account, all that does is convert the
posts to have a "guest" user. I wish it did remove the posts as well.
On 08/31/2014 09:41 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
Can't you just remove the spamer account with all his posts?
On 8/31/14, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org> wrote:
More accurately, the owner is generally non-responsive (he is really
busy and does not have much time for a hobby forum).
The forum is currently hosted on machines that prevent him from granting
admin rights to the forum proper and I assume that he does not have
things properly virtualized to allow sufficient access to update the
forum proper (and no time to make this happen).
The problem with fighting the spam is that the moderators and "admins"
are fighting spammers that can compromise the old forum software at will
so with a volume of spam bots posting at will, it is a losing battle.
The owner told me on the phone that he was willing to do something about
this (like allow a transfer, or help, or something), but I understand
that he was not responsive when he was contacted again. When I last
called him just to see if he was alive (really, I thought he might have
died), he was surprised that the site had not been functional in about a
month and said that he had not seen my email to him. For all I know, it
was auto-filtered to spam.
I was just looking at the site, and, the first spammer listed had over
500 spams posted. The only way I have to remove spam is one thread at a
time. So, I would need to spend at least an hours (if I were able to
remove 1 thread every 6 seconds manually). That is a single spammer /
user. It would be more doable if I were able to simply remove every
message from a specific user, but I don't have that ability.
On 08/31/2014 05:23 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
So you got feedback from them, and they denied?
I mean this forum could need some help, the download widget on the
cover still point to 2.4.0 and many links are abandoned projects like
OOoMath and such.
On 8/31/14, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
On 31/08/2014 Rory O'Farrell wrote:
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:41:29 -0500 Alexandro Colorado wrote:
I can volunteer to admin the forum and police it for spam.
As I recollect the flood of spam was such that it defeated several
experienced moderators working together. It may be impossible for one
moderator to handle on his own.
I know you both know, but for the benefit of the casual reader, we are
not talking about the official forum, but about a third-party forum
which is not under control of the project. We started some talks to
tell
the maintainers that we may help if needed, but we haven't come to a
conclusion yet. So the project does not have access to that forum and
can't promote users to moderators.
Regards,
Andrea.
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