Spam reporting thread #60

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1lilithcat
Nov 6, 2017, 6:29 pm

PROCEDURES FOR REPORTING SPAM

Distinguish between the following, and flag the highest level of the violation:

-- Type 1: Irredeemable commercial spam: make sure to flag the member's profile, as well as the spammy activity. This type includes things selling strollers, pharmaceuticals, live-streaming sports games, porn, and/or trying to create traffic/links to sites for such things. Sufficient profile flags will automatically result in temporary suspension and deletion of the member's activity, so use your profile-flagging powers wisely and carefully.

-- Type 2: Teachable moments: DO NOT flag the member's profile, but DO flag the violating activity (e.g. self-promotional Talk post, group, or local venue). This type includes promotional activity that violates the Terms of Service (TOS), but where the member is potentially redeemable, e.g. overzealous authors, overzealous publishers, or other members with small TOS violations but who are otherwise using the site legitimately. These cases should be reported to staff (by sending a message or email to staff and/or or posting on this thread), so the member can be taught how to use the site.

Specific procedures:
-- Overzealous authors or publishers (these fall under type 2): do NOT flag the member's profile. Report to staff here or privately. You can also send the member a polite message pointing them to the terms, mentioning the "no promoting" language, and pointing them to the Do's and Don't page for authors: http://www.librarything.com/about_authors.php
-- Suspected sock-puppetry to promote a book, write fake reviews, and/or stack ratings: do not flag the profile, but report to staff here or by message, so staff can investigate. This is a serious violation for which members can be permanently banned.
-- Profile flags for commercial spammers only (type 1): On the member's profile page, click on the "report for spam" link, then follow instructions to flag the member. Again, this is only for commercial spam, not for "overzealous" authors, publishers, or booksellers, which should be reported to staff instead. See Talk post: http://www.librarything.com/topic/85810
-- Spam or promotional posts in a Talk topic (type 1 or 2): flag the post as an abuse of the terms of service.
-- Spam or promotional groups (types 1 and 2): flag new groups using the "flag this group" link.
-- Spam lists: report in this thread, and flag the member if it's commercial spam.
-- Spam works (type 1 spam): flag the work as spam on the work's editions page, and then vote on proposed work spam. Make sure to read the guidelines before proposing or voting, especially for what is not spam. Voting page: http://www.librarything.com/spam_works.php
-- Spam in a review (type 1), or an explicitly promotional review (type 2): flag the review as an abuse of the TOS, using the red flag.
-- Spam or promotion in "published reviews," or other CK fields (type 1 or 2): post here and/or delete.
-- Spam or egregious promotion/advertising in venues or events (type 1 or 2): post here and/or delete. Note that authors are permitted to add events for their books.
-- Spam in book links / quick links: post here and/or edit to remove spam.
-- Spam author names listed on a work: No current procedure. Tim has asked us not to change CK to indicate spammers, and not to combine spam authors together.
-- Not sure if it's spam? Post here, and explain why.

Please note that Tim has asked us not to use either CK or the combining system (whether works or authors) for spam fighting.

For more information see these wiki pages:
Procedures for flagging and reporting spam: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Spam#Procedures_for_flagging_and_repo....
Spam works, guidelines for flagging and voting: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/HelpThing:Spam_works

(A copy of these guidelines, for pasting in new threads, can be found here or at the top of previous threads.)

3Lyndatrue
Nov 7, 2017, 1:46 am

First airline reservation spam post I've actually seen;

Profile

http://www.librarything.com/profile/suzy789585

7jnwelch
Nov 7, 2017, 12:25 pm

Here's a weird one, if I can get the link right: http://www.librarything.com/topic/271914#6237436 The continuation link (!) at the bottom was spammed. Nobody was able to fix it, so I posted the next thread as a New Topic. I've never seen this one done before.

8gilroy
Nov 7, 2017, 1:07 pm

>7 jnwelch: Wow. Somehow they broke into the CSS for the page? These guys are getting hard core!

11Taphophile13
Nov 7, 2017, 3:10 pm

12Taphophile13
Nov 7, 2017, 6:21 pm

17rybie2
Nov 9, 2017, 10:11 pm

>16 Taphophile13: Flagged them all, went back to check a minute later, and all were kaput.

25Maddz
Nov 13, 2017, 3:49 am

https://www.librarything.com/topic/274905#
https://www.librarything.com/topic/274906

Both similar messages, both from the same user https://www.librarything.com/profile/rjames65

Reported the member for spam activity, but can't seem to flag the spam Talk posts for some reason...

26andyl
Nov 13, 2017, 4:26 am

More (almost identical spam) from https://www.librarything.com/profile/josephrio63

28MarthaJeanne
Modificato: Nov 13, 2017, 1:58 pm

There seem to be so many spammers today that some of the smaller ones got missed. http://www.librarything.com/profile/shanky245

Gone now.

30Lyndatrue
Nov 14, 2017, 12:36 am

This one's so earnest, it seems almost cruel to flag it. Still, please flag the topic.

Don't flag the profile (upon which I have left the obligatory information).

http://www.librarything.com/topic/275089#

http://www.librarything.com/profile/Meliths

31Lyndatrue
Nov 14, 2017, 12:56 am

I feel all alone out here...

http://www.librarything.com/topic/275092#

http://www.librarything.com/profile/BradSmith1

(pretty blatant, but at least it's not Pogo, right?)

33Lyndatrue
Modificato: Nov 14, 2017, 1:11 am

>32 Lyndatrue: topic's gone, profile's still there, and the topic for poor Meliths (>30 Lyndatrue:) needs one more flag.

ETA: Okay, all's well again... for now, anyway.

(Man, that was weird. There were two "33" posts for a moment. I haven't seen that in a long time.)

34Taphophile13
Nov 14, 2017, 1:06 am

>33 Lyndatrue: Meliths topic now gone. And superstar3004 is gone.

372wonderY
Nov 14, 2017, 7:31 am

38lilithcat
Nov 14, 2017, 9:34 am

>31 Lyndatrue:

Hey! What's wrong with Pogo?

40Lyndatrue
Nov 14, 2017, 11:03 am

>39 lilithcat: All fixed (and you are officially the holder of books I'd consider stealing, except they'd make me miss Walt Kelly, and feel even sadder about the current state of the world).

42Taphophile13
Modificato: Nov 14, 2017, 9:32 pm

link to some sort of game
http://www.librarything.com/topic/273395#6247169
http://www.librarything.com/profile/Acacer_Paolo

especially tacky right after a member was talking about a shooting that happened today: "This is so fun! What a great idea. Also I love how authentic you seem to be. Your style and passion for blogging is contagious. Thank you for sharing your life!"

49Taphophile13
Nov 15, 2017, 11:27 pm

50lilithcat
Nov 15, 2017, 11:38 pm

>49 Taphophile13:

Make your Cherry Lemonade drink and enjoy your Halloween evening with this drink

A bit late with their message, I think!

51Taphophile13
Nov 15, 2017, 11:59 pm

>50 lilithcat: Not all countries celebrate on the same day I guess.

52lilithcat
Nov 16, 2017, 12:24 am

>51 Taphophile13:

But Hallowe'en is All Hallows Eve, which is always and everywhere October 31, no?

53Taphophile13
Nov 16, 2017, 12:27 am

>52 lilithcat: Only if you're going to be pedantic about it.

552wonderY
Modificato: Nov 16, 2017, 7:25 am

I searched Cheesy Animation and found an old profile with spam works and reviews
https://www.librarything.com/profile/thecheesy

https://www.librarything.com/work/14760071/106727728
https://www.librarything.com/work/14446127

also, is there a way to remove this author page which has a live spam link tag?

56MarthaJeanne
Nov 16, 2017, 7:40 am

Don't worry about the link. It leads to the LT tag page, not to that site.

59MarthaJeanne
Nov 16, 2017, 12:28 pm

>58 lilithcat: Staff will have to act to get rid of the topic.

64Taphophile13
Nov 16, 2017, 4:26 pm

67Taphophile13
Modificato: Nov 16, 2017, 4:41 pm

still adding spam works

https://www.librarything.com/work/20660344

I've contacted Lorannen about this profile

here's another
https://www.librarything.com/work/20660348

70gilroy
Nov 16, 2017, 5:19 pm

Take away the wiki and they go back to works. Sigh.

74MarthaJeanne
Nov 17, 2017, 3:32 pm

75norabelle414
Modificato: Nov 17, 2017, 3:42 pm

These accounts are all creating spam lists. There's no way to mark a list as spam but the lists disappear when the creator is removed as spam.

https://www.librarything.com/profile/mask741
https://www.librarything.com/profile/jackson26366011
https://www.librarything.com/profile/Rituverman
https://www.librarything.com/profile/jackdaniels77

ETA: all gone!

77gilroy
Nov 17, 2017, 3:55 pm

>75 norabelle414: Man, Jack Daniels from back in 1977... That's some strong stuff! :)

81rybie2
Nov 20, 2017, 10:24 am

http://www.librarything.com/profile/fore

All 15 spam works are squashed, and now it would be nice to see the account obliterated.

82MarthaJeanne
Nov 20, 2017, 10:29 am

83torontoc
Modificato: Nov 20, 2017, 11:40 am

84lilithcat
Nov 20, 2017, 11:59 am

86Taphophile13
Nov 21, 2017, 2:09 pm

91Lyndatrue
Nov 23, 2017, 12:31 am

Interesting (sort of). Youtube spam.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/275889#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/Chloe_Mar

Well, *that* was quick. Gone already.

96lilithcat
Nov 25, 2017, 9:05 am

>95 MarthaJeanne:

Wow. And I found a few more (now gone). Is there a group that guy didn't spam?

97MarthaJeanne
Nov 25, 2017, 9:31 am

If you look on his profile, I think he probably stopped after my second comment, but he answer it on his profile, not mine.

99Marissa_Doyle
Modificato: Nov 26, 2017, 1:15 pm

Publisher offering coupons:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/276041
http://www.librarything.com/topic/276040

(To be fair, I don't know that this member is affiliated with the publisher)

100lilithcat
Nov 26, 2017, 1:26 pm

>99 Marissa_Doyle:

Honestly, I don't think that's spam, at least not intentionally so. I think it's a member trying to be helpful to people with similar interests.

1022wonderY
Nov 27, 2017, 7:15 am

https://www.librarything.com/topic/119841#6258482
https://www.librarything.com/profile/siska777

snuck one in just before a confirmed spammer with a similar name.

105rybie2
Modificato: Nov 28, 2017, 2:14 pm

never mind...

107rsterling
Nov 28, 2017, 6:28 pm

Can staff delete these spam wiki pages?
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContribu...

So many of them. Users are gone, but their vandalism lives on.

108Lyndatrue
Nov 28, 2017, 6:34 pm

>107 rsterling: Staff doesn't usually look here, unless alerted to do so. There was a bug report over this, and discussion. I'll still poke Lorannen, and let her know to look here.

113rodneyvc
Nov 29, 2017, 6:14 am

>107 rsterling: I'm guessing these should disappear once the reloaded wiki is released.

1162wonderY
Nov 30, 2017, 7:24 am

122Lyndatrue
Dic 1, 2017, 12:37 pm

I almost hate to post this, but the (very long time) member ought to know better. On the other hand, maybe not.

I will post a reminder on his comment page.

It only needs one more flag, and it's gone.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/276603

Please do not flag the profile:

http://www.librarything.com/profile/JasonBrownPDX

123lilithcat
Dic 1, 2017, 1:16 pm

Author uses up month's supply of exclamation points on December 1!! His wife made him do it!

http://www.librarything.com/topic/276633

http://www.librarything.com/profile/anthonyseger (don't flag)

124gilroy
Dic 1, 2017, 1:25 pm

A month's supply of exclamation points is a half of one. If he used that many, he might have used a lifetime supply...

1252wonderY
Dic 2, 2017, 1:36 pm

126Taphophile13
Modificato: Dic 2, 2017, 11:56 pm

new author: http://www.librarything.com/topic/276734

don't flag the profile: http://www.librarything.com/profile/Yogesh23
I left a message.

ETA: he deleted his book and probably left

129Taphophile13
Dic 4, 2017, 11:20 pm

Please flag this group: https://www.librarything.com/groups/namethisbook

I left a message for member.

131torontoc
Modificato: Dic 5, 2017, 12:28 pm

136lilithcat
Dic 8, 2017, 12:55 pm

Author spam: http://www.librarything.com/topic/277388

http://www.librarything.com/profile/timothyv103 (for information only, do not flag) I've left a comment for him.

138lilithcat
Dic 8, 2017, 7:15 pm

>137 Taphophile13:

I love the way one of those calls out the "numerous dishonest people running Delhi escort agencies". Takes one to know one, as we used to say to each other on the playground.

139Taphophile13
Dic 8, 2017, 7:17 pm

>138 lilithcat: Yes, that amused me too.

147Taphophile13
Dic 11, 2017, 11:25 pm

app to protect mobile phone from battery damage
http://www.librarything.com/profile/fullbatteryalarm

152Lyndatrue
Dic 13, 2017, 5:04 pm

>151 FAMeulstee: I've sent this on to those who can help with this.

I've also left a suggestion (for staff) that there needs to be a specific reporting place for Wiki vandalism, since it probably requires privileges, and certainly needs specialized knowledge (which I do not have)..

153FAMeulstee
Dic 13, 2017, 5:05 pm

>152 Lyndatrue: Thanks, I wasn't sure where I should report it.

154lorannen
Dic 13, 2017, 5:10 pm

>151 FAMeulstee: and >152 Lyndatrue: Thanks for pinging me directly. Typically, I keep an eye on this thread during the workday, but it's my busiest time of year. I've deleted the spam page, blocked the user in question, and alerted our sysadmin to the fact that spam is still getting through on the new wiki.

157gilroy
Dic 14, 2017, 7:30 am

https://www.librarything.com/work/5734185/editions

I suspect this is a case of incorrect combining that got tagged as spam, but it isn't spam that I can find. (Though it has two yes votes. Go figure.)

160lorannen
Dic 14, 2017, 5:37 pm

>156 aeclark: and >158 2wonderY: Thanks for the reports. I'm on 'em.

162proximity1
Modificato: Dic 15, 2017, 12:15 pm

Would a post regarding books incorrectly added as a result of the "universal import" feature be proper here?

The feature often creates records/adds one or, in this case, six seven books which I did not designate and have no interest in having in my collections.

163Helenliz
Dic 15, 2017, 12:17 pm

>162 proximity1: That's not really spam, I'd suggest you'd be better off posting in http://www.librarything.com/groups/bugcollectors

164Taphophile13
Dic 16, 2017, 12:54 am

165MarthaJeanne
Dic 17, 2017, 3:39 am

I flagged http://www.librarything.com/groups/wisethoughts because it looks like the purpose is to direct people to a website for the author's books.

167anglemark
Modificato: Dic 17, 2017, 4:35 am

>165 MarthaJeanne: The group should go and someone should post a notice on his profile.

168lorannen
Dic 17, 2017, 4:39 am

>166 FAMeulstee: Got the new ones knocked down and users blocked.

I'm not sure what you mean regarding those other two not being removed. The pages say "there is no text in this page." That means the page has been deleted, and content removed. The links don't stop working—they'll just take you to a blank page. That's part of how the wiki works. I could invent a URL for a random page that doesn't exist, and it would give me that message.

169FAMeulstee
Dic 17, 2017, 4:51 am

>168 lorannen: Okay, then it is allright :-)
The others were completely gone, so I wondered what the difference was.

170FAMeulstee
Modificato: Dic 17, 2017, 4:53 am

>170 FAMeulstee: Checked it, but I still get pages with content in those two :-(

171anglemark
Modificato: Dic 17, 2017, 6:19 am

>168 lorannen: You are not by any chance clicking the links in post >166 FAMeulstee:? The links are broken, that's why you get the "page doesn't exist" message. The spam is indeed still there, as FAMeulstee says. Copy the entire links and paste in your browser and you'll see.

172MarthaJeanne
Dic 17, 2017, 6:08 am

>167 anglemark: Can you do it in Russian?

173anglemark
Modificato: Dic 17, 2017, 6:20 am

>172 MarthaJeanne:: Perhaps with the help of a dictionary. My Russian is extremely rusty.

ETA: The group is gone now. Do you remember his username?

176lorannen
Dic 17, 2017, 1:20 pm

>171 anglemark: I was, indeed. Good catch, and thank you!

>174 gilroy: and >175 FAMeulstee: Got those knocked down, too. Don't worry, I'm waving anxiously at the devs about how this is still a problem.

177FAMeulstee
Dic 17, 2017, 1:29 pm

>176 lorannen: It is minor in comparison before the wiki was moved.
Removing them as soon as possible might discourage them, do these people get payed for putting spam on this site?

178FAMeulstee
Dic 17, 2017, 1:32 pm

Oh and the original page (he/she moved it) of the user from >175 FAMeulstee: is still there at:

https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Talk:UK_%2B44_(800)-(_471)-_4636_Coinbas...

179Taphophile13
Dic 17, 2017, 4:31 pm

1932wonderY
Dic 20, 2017, 7:34 am

new member https://www.librarything.com/profile/htmlcolor

posted very odd bits last evening, both flagged. Both with links that my computer blocked.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/277025#6285982
https://www.librarything.com/topic/277241#6285979

Profile needs flagged, I think.

197MarthaJeanne
Modificato: Dic 20, 2017, 7:00 pm

Author spam https://www.librarything.com/topic/245451#6287144

(https://www.librarything.com/profile/jwfarq)

198FAMeulstee
Dic 21, 2017, 10:46 am

199FAMeulstee
Dic 21, 2017, 10:48 am

and also spamming in Book Talk: https://www.librarything.nl/profile/pizecefah

200Taphophile13
Dic 21, 2017, 11:28 am

201FAMeulstee
Dic 21, 2017, 12:08 pm

next one spamming in Book Talk: https://www.librarything.nl/profile/suhuruxini

202Lyndatrue
Modificato: Dic 21, 2017, 12:29 pm

Ignore me. I broke my rule about posting before adequate caffeination.

203gilroy
Dic 21, 2017, 12:41 pm

Dang, I missed a pre-coffee post... :D

205davidgn
Dic 21, 2017, 6:09 pm

Spams ahoy!
https://www.librarything.com/local

Boatloads of NYC events (at least...) have been spaminated again.

206Taphophile13
Dic 21, 2017, 6:13 pm

>205 davidgn: That one multi-alarmed my antivirus software. Is there is a way to flag spam venues?

207lilithcat
Dic 21, 2017, 6:44 pm

>206 Taphophile13:

No need to flag them. You can delete them. You'll get a box that pops up asking you the reason; just say "spam venue".

208Taphophile13
Dic 21, 2017, 6:50 pm

>207 lilithcat: Thanks for the information.

209norabelle414
Dic 21, 2017, 7:30 pm

The spam events all say "added from Eventkeeper" at the bottom. Does that mean the spam is coming from somewhere else and being imported to LT?

210norabelle414
Modificato: Dic 21, 2017, 7:39 pm

There are lots of spam events on this venue page: https://www.librarything.com/venue/5074
but once I click to see more past events a couple times the format changes and I lose the ability to edit events.

ETA: nevermind, I figured out how to get the edit button back

217FAMeulstee
Modificato: Dic 22, 2017, 3:59 pm

222FAMeulstee
Modificato: Dic 23, 2017, 10:30 am

on the wiki, the user is already suspended:
https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/TurboTax%2B1(866)_206_7232%22TurboTax_SU...

ETA: This user also changed the mainpage, I did undo his changes there:
https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Main_Page

229Lyndatrue
Dic 23, 2017, 1:05 pm

>228 passion4reading: Are you finding these items in the Spam folder? After following along with your last post, and then visiting the spam folder, I realized that you were posting things here that were only there. It's fine to point out that things need addressing there, but please don't post them all here.

Thank you.

230FAMeulstee
Modificato: Dic 23, 2017, 1:20 pm

>229 Lyndatrue: The posts are in Book Talk.

231lorannen
Dic 23, 2017, 1:37 pm

Got all the wiki spam knocked down for now. Last week, I talked with the devs about how we can nail down this issue better. It looks like they didn't have time to implement the solutions we discussed before the holiday, unfortunately. Thanks for the diligent reporting and your patience in the meantime! Keep posting them here, and I'll keep knocking them down ASAP.

232FAMeulstee
Dic 23, 2017, 1:40 pm

>231 lorannen: Okay, I keep checking the recent changes on the wiki ;-)

233Taphophile13
Dic 23, 2017, 8:14 pm

235MarthaJeanne
Dic 24, 2017, 5:17 am

>234 passion4reading: You really don't need to copy spam into here if it is already in the spam folder.

236FAMeulstee
Dic 24, 2017, 5:51 am

>234 passion4reading: The threads were there when I flagged them.

237passion4reading
Modificato: Dic 24, 2017, 7:05 am

>235 MarthaJeanne:, >236 FAMeulstee: Apologies for treading on anyone's toes, but the topics and profile I posted this morning are new (in Book Talk) and haven't appeared in the current Spam reporting thread before, as can be seen by the topic numbering.

239gilroy
Dic 24, 2017, 10:08 am

Ah, the holiday spammers are bored...

240Taphophile13
Dic 24, 2017, 10:08 am

>233 Taphophile13: showed up in the spam folder after I posted it here as well. Perhaps a new behavior?

242lilithcat
Dic 25, 2017, 10:09 am

This thread is getting too unwieldy.

I'm going to continue it.
Questa conversazione è stata continuata da Spam reporting thread #61.