desideriascott spam?

knunk · Post by **knunk** » Tue May 04, 2010 10:24 pm

Hi Guys and desideriascott.
Forgive me If I'm wrong but theres something about desideriascott that didn't sit right with me. desideriascotts questions struck me as being a tad inane. I also noticed the credit card link sig. I also noticed the question about what a show was a called (with a duck) which was exactly the same question asked by another user on another forum I stop by.

I copied some of desideriascotts other questions into google and sure enough they all appear on other animation forums. Try it yourself.

So, are you a real person desideriascott or a clever spam robot from the future?

AmigaMan · Post by **AmigaMan** » Wed May 05, 2010 12:52 am

There are a few new forum members lately that all post quite banal responses / questions. I'm beginning to wonder if they are all the same person as there are significant similarities with their user name?

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Wed May 05, 2010 1:46 am

From how they respond to each other they could be classmates of the same school (hence the shared IP?). In any case, they're highly annoying and may cause serious posters to not participate anymore (I think some already do so, and I feel like joining them).

knunk · Post by **knunk** » Wed May 05, 2010 2:58 am

You think this guys paid to post here? Just so he can display his credit card sig?

Seems a crap job to me. Anyway. heres what I'm talking about.

http://www.animationforum.net/forum/sho ... hp?p=57180

http://donbluthanimation.com/forum/show ... hp?p=13996

http://www.animationforum.net/forum/sho ... hp?p=57316

http://www.animationforum.net/forum/sho ... hp?p=57433

..you get the idea. He seems to be cutting and pasting questions from other forums. Am I being dumb? I don't get it.

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Wed May 05, 2010 5:40 am

Copy and paste questions from other forums only sounds to spam bot.
I manage Synfig forum and I just kick off any kind of robotic style question but never have seen such smart bots that copy and paste "human" questions... hmmm something to take care of.

Time will give us the answer. If the poster doesn't reply here it is clear what it is.

-G

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Wed May 05, 2010 5:52 am

One way of taking care of this is to do what South Park Studio does.

A new member of the forum can post but...
all their post would have to be approved by a MOD before made public and after an X amount of post and the MOD has determined its a real person interested in animation will their post be automatically made public.

It's kind of like a probation period. This really made me mad when I joined South Park Studio but now i understand why they do it; they get no spam.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Wed May 05, 2010 6:32 am

sbtamu wrote:A new member of the forum can post but...
all their post would have to be approved by a MOD before made public and after an X amount of post and the MOD has determined its a real person interested in animation will their post be automatically made public.

I don't think that would be a good solution, sbtamu. Probably, if that period had existed when I started posting, I never would have made me a member of this forum.
As all us, I think spam isn't nice, but this forum doesn't deserves that extreme measure. Actually, we need more and more fresh newbies for a better forum, many times they come with new fantastic ideas, many times they only come to post an script or share their work.

I think we urgently need a revision of moderators, 80% of them are not even posting here and I doubt they be secretly banning spammers. We need more active moderators. I offer myself for that, but obviously it's decision of Mike Clifton.

About new spammers members (humans and humanoids) I think an advice would be ok, something like If you still spamming the forum you will be banned (I'm thinking on Liquirless, desideriascott and many names I don't remember right now).

neeters_guy · Post by **neeters_guy** » Wed May 05, 2010 11:33 am

It appears sp*mmers are using low-paid workers to post almost-relevant posts rather than use bots to post obvious sp*m.

I almost posted a response to desideriascott myself, but deleted it. I think the advice is same as always, to ignore them completely.

I think Rhoel is catching a lot of the obvious spam, but these human ones are really subtle. Should we even bother sending pm's about suspected sp*mmers?

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Wed May 05, 2010 12:49 pm

Whats sad about this is I spent the better part of an hr. searching for the cartoon and I found it after I posted the wrong cartoon. The one he was looking for is called "Dynamo Duck" was revived film from 1964 and re-edited.

But no reason to post the answer there if it's not a real question or person.

Anyway, I should send that guy a PM asking for 25 bucks for the hr I spent looking LoL.

Rhoel · Post by **Rhoel** » Thu May 06, 2010 2:44 am

desideriascott is posting from a unique IP from Mumbai, India.

My guess is this is not a Spambot but as suggested, a someone plugging their website.

Unfortunately, MODS only have control over posts and not accounts: If I did, I would disable his non-animation signature.

As mentioned, I am currently killing off mindless comments being posted by the other Pakistan poster/s. Problem is it takes time and I have animation to make and proposals to write - currently working on educational animation programming, which is turning out to be huge fun.

Good news is my 3D eyeglasses arrived yesterday lunchtime and I eventually got to bed at 6am - how time flies when you're enjoying yourself. The girlfriend is very understanding and is now talking about going to her mother's for the weekend.

Just call me incorrigible.

Rhoel

crsP · Post by **crsP** » Thu May 06, 2010 4:06 am

sbtamu wrote: all their post would have to be approved by a MOD before made public and after an X amount of post and the MOD has determined its a real person interested in animation...

There's animation in South Park now?! he

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Thu May 06, 2010 5:10 am

crsP wrote:
sbtamu wrote: all their post would have to be approved by a MOD before made public and after an X amount of post and the MOD has determined its a real person interested in animation...
There's animation in South Park now?! he

They have a forum there.