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published 2 years, 4 months ago, submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 2 years, 4 months ago

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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posted by jamesewelch(2265) 2 years, 4 months ago

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 gavinjoyce(25.7k) 2 years, 4 months ago

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

posted by sirrocco(800) 2 years, 4 months ago

Now that is quite a nice feature :)

posted by cdjaco(5) 2 years, 4 months ago

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

posted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 2 years, 4 months 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 yesthatmcgurk(3805) 2 years, 4 months ago

I truly miss all the baby shower spams.

I'm such a filthy liar.

posted by senfo(870) 2 years, 4 months ago

Cool I'm there and I'm blue!

posted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 2 years, 4 months ago

Don't tempt me ;)

posted by cdjaco(5) 2 years, 4 months ago

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

posted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 2 years, 4 months ago

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

posted by cdjaco(5) 2 years, 4 months 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 Mike.Griffin(2290) 2 years, 4 months ago

Spammers almost always use numbers in the their user names

posted by JudahGabriel(755) 2 years, 4 months ago

Now this is pretty cool, nice work guys.

posted by ussherm(5255) 2 years, 4 months 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 gavinjoyce(25.7k) 2 years, 4 months ago

@ussherm: thanks, have flagged jin12 as a spammer

posted by ussherm(5255) 2 years, 4 months ago

@gavinjoyce Awesome! Glad I could help. :)

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