OpenG spam

[Phillip Brooks]

I see that there has been a ?!@*-ton of spam on the OpenG General Discussion forum this weekend.

Just a thought; maybe the discussion forums could be moved to LAVA? It might provoke a bit more involvement in OpenG in general and the more robust forum software would stop the spammage (is spammage a word?)

[dannyt]

I see that there has been a ?!@*-ton of spam on the OpenG General Discussion forum this weekend.

Just a thought; maybe the discussion forums could be moved to LAVA? It might provoke a bit more involvement in OpenG in general and the more robust forum software would stop the spammage (is spammage a word?)

I would second that idea very much, the life seems to have fallen out of the OpenG forum's over the last year or so which seem doubly strange now that the OpenG Libraries have been

recognised by NI.

Danny

[Wouter]

I think that is a great idea, hopefully it will get more active then, I have a bunch of VI's which I think are handy and would like to share with everyone threw OpenG. I think the project must come from it's feet again... but there seems no one to really pick it up.

[dannyt]

Hi All

This post should really go on the OpenG forums themselves, but I feel a little worried about posting up anything on there these days or even signing in for that matter, so I could not think where else to put this post as I am sure the OpenG people read LAVA (well who does'nt)

I am not really sure who is responsible for the OpenG forums, but the spam situation is really getting bad on there now, I cannot see it doing anything but harm to the reputation of the OpenG tool set which is now recognised as part of the NI tool network.

I really think it would be a good idea to close down the forum for now until the situation can be got under control again both the the reputation of the OpenG community and for the security of the members of that forum.

Dannyt

[jgcode]

Ok, I cleaned up the spam (should I call it spam? ...some content was very interesting... )

Anyways, I formally vote for OpenG as a sub-forum of LAVA.

Respectfully,

-JG

[dannyt]

Ok, I cleaned up the spam (should I call it spam? ...some content was very interesting... )

Anyways, I formally vote for OpenG as a sub-forum of LAVA.

Respectfully,

-JG

+1 for that JG

[crelf]

the life seems to have fallen out of the OpenG forum's over the last year or so which seem doubly strange now that the OpenG Libraries have been recognised by NI.

I think the project must come from it's feet again... but there seems no one to really pick it up.

Just a quick insider's message: yes, the wind had gone out of the OpenG sails for a little while, but we're reorganizing to ramp it up again. Just sayin'.

[dannyt]

Just a quick insider's message: yes, the wind had gone out of the OpenG sails for a little while, but we're reorganizing to ramp it up again. Just sayin'.

Thanks for the update that is good to hear :-)

[jgcode]

Thanks for the update that is good to hear :-)

Just a quick one, I contacted Jim who has put in a challenge question for member registration.

Hopefully, that will calm things down with the spambots.

Cheers

-JG

[Antoine Chalons]

OpenG is still suffering from a lot of spam

[jgcode]

OpenG is still suffering from a lot of spam

It's all cleaned up now.

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

It's all cleaned up now.

you clearly missed some, mostly from february 2010 but also later. I reported them but not sure who gets those reports. I think I reported some of them already last year.

[jgcode]

you clearly missed some, mostly from february 2010 but also later. I reported them but not sure who gets those reports. I think I reported some of them already last year.

Hi Rolf

My post was in response Antoine's post dated 04-Mar-11 - I have not back tracked through the forums.

However, I just did a quick look and could not find any spam from Feb 2010 onwards as you mentioned above.

Also, I am just guessing that any reports would go to Jim?

Cheers

-JG

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

Hi Rolf

My post was in response Antoine's post dated 04-Mar-11 - I have not back tracked through the forums.

However, I just did a quick look and could not find any spam from Feb 2010 onwards as you mentioned above.

Also, I am just guessing that any reports would go to Jim?

Cheers

-JG

Well here are a few recent ones and also from February last year or therearound:

http://forums.openg.org/index.php?showtopic=1997&view=findpost&p=5038

http://forums.openg.org/index.php?showtopic=1998&view=findpost&p=5039

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3526

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3527

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=5034

http://forums.openg....?showtopic=1104 (several by Retapitle)

http://forums.openg....p?showtopic=994 (several by Retapitle)

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=4851

http://forums.openg....p?showtopic=960 (last two posts)

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=2816

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3000

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3008

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3086

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3118

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=5037

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3010

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3006

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=2998

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=2993

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3063

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=4728

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3067

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=2999

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=2996

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3012

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3004

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=2994

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3002

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3009

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3078

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3013

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3001

http://forums.openg....findpost&p=3075

http://forums.openg.org/index.php?showtopic=1084&view=findpost&p=3011

http://forums.openg.org/index.php?showtopic=935&view=findpost&p=3003

I consider any nonsense post with non LabVIEW/NI /LAVA/ OpenG related links in the footer to be spam, even if the bot was smart enough to get some words from earlier posts and make it appear as if it is on topic. Usually a single post user account with useless message also looks to me like spam.

A few of these could be maybe left, although I'm sure they were just test messages by the bot creator to see if it works. "Hello dude, this is great info" with only this single post for that account is simply useless.

For obvious cases it would be good to disable the account too. A fairly good indication for these posts is also that it is usually a name with a 2 digit number appended.