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They (spammers) look like ants from here

published 11 months, 24 days ago, submitted by

gavinjoyce 11 months, 24 days ago

blog.incremental.ie — Since adding some basic user visualisation to DotNetKicks.com the other day, I have become slightly addicted to viewing the who's online page. This morning I added colour coding to the users based on their status - green for new users, blue for existing users and red for spammers.

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Maybe there should be a special box or total for non-registered visitors.

"Spammers don't really know that their account has been flagged" - they will now. Are you going to keep the Who's Online page like this for a while or just have it color coded for Admins and Mods?

posted by

jamesewelch 11 months, 24 days ago

I'll leave it like it is for awhile, then update it to only show spammers to moderators.

posted by

gavinjoyce 11 months, 24 days ago

Now that is quite a nice feature :)

posted by

sirrocco 11 months, 24 days ago

Are there any common characteristics of spammer accounts (domain, user agent, length of post) you've noticed, Gavin?

posted by

cdjaco 11 months, 24 days ago

I haven't done any analysis on the spammers yet. My impression is that most of them don't understand that this site has a narrow focus. Maybe I should set up spamkicks.com?

posted by

gavinjoyce 11 months, 24 days ago

I truly miss all the baby shower spams.

I'm such a filthy liar.

posted by

yesthatmcgurk 11 months, 24 days ago

Cool I'm there and I'm blue!

posted by senfo 11 months, 24 days ago

Don't tempt me ;)

posted by

gavinjoyce 11 months, 24 days ago

So we would vote for the most entertaining spam links? :D

posted by

cdjaco 11 months, 24 days ago

That would be the idea, could probably sell the site for millions after a little while.

posted by

gavinjoyce 11 months, 24 days ago

Hmm, and in the comments one could mock the spammers. Could be quite therapeutic!

(And perhaps a useful resource for generating a spammer blacklist)

posted by

cdjaco 11 months, 24 days ago

Spammers almost always use numbers in the their user names

posted by Mike.Griffin 11 months, 24 days ago

Now this is pretty cool, nice work guys.

posted by

JudahGabriel 11 months, 24 days ago

>> Spammers almost always use numbers in their user names

case in point: http://www.dotnetkicks.com/users/jin12/profile

I just went through all of his submitted stories - they are all spam. Fear not, I marked them as such... so a moderator should be removing them shortly - and flag that assclown as a Spammer!

posted by

ussherm 11 months, 24 days ago

@ussherm: thanks, have flagged jin12 as a spammer

posted by

gavinjoyce 11 months, 24 days ago

@gavinjoyce Awesome! Glad I could help. :)

posted by

ussherm 11 months, 23 days ago