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What about to ask for Chinese censors to kindly add your forum to the Great Firewall? Problem solved.

by atirip 15y ago

Tuna-Fish 15y ago
That made me start wondering what kind of content should I post to maximize the odds of that. ... But it wouldn't actually work. This isn't exclusive to China -- it's also appearing in India. And this won't go away until wages equalize globally enough to make this kind of things unprofitable. And that won't happen very soon.
ck2 15y ago
That's an interesting idea. Post about Tank Man for China. India is a bit more tricky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India But in the end it would be unfair to regular citizens of those countries who have about as much control over their governments as the USA citizens do if you aren't a lobbyist or the 1%
buro9 15y ago
It's not just the Chinese. My spam logs suggest it's also the Russians and Indians in great number and then there's a large gap before reaching the USA and some European countries. Besides, do you believe you'll never have any valuable users from those places? IP blocking is proving to be the most successful thing I've got going. I do like to make it forget IPs after a while as they could just be temporary. Most of my IP blocks I apply for a month, it's an entirely arbitrary time period I know. I did do an experiment and captured all registrations and form submissions for a day and looked at the data. The only pattern that ALL spammers that day could be identified by was their password. The password was either '0' or '[a-zA-Z0-9]{10}'. Unfortunately I can't just block those patterns as I have no idea how many real users would be affected by such a thing. Obv' I don't have their passwords and just store hashes, and I don't normally transmit a password except for noscript graceful degradation. So basically... whilst I was pleased to find a pattern it's not one I can implement against without doing something undesirable elsewhere.

What about to ask for Chinese censors to kindly add your forum to the Great Firewall? Problem solved.

by atirip 15y ago

What about to ask for Chinese censors to kindly add your forum to the Great Firewall? Problem solved.

That made me start wondering what kind of content should I post to maximize the odds of that. ... But it wouldn't actually work. This isn't exclusive to China -- it's also appearing in India. And this won't go away until wages equalize globally enough to make this kind of things unprofitable. And that won't happen very soon.

ck2 15y ago

That's an interesting idea. Post about Tank Man for China. India is a bit more tricky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India But in the end it would be unfair to regular citizens of those countries who have about as much control over their governments as the USA citizens do if you aren't a lobbyist or the 1%

buro9 15y ago

It's not just the Chinese. My spam logs suggest it's also the Russians and Indians in great number and then there's a large gap before reaching the USA and some European countries. Besides, do you believe you'll never have any valuable users from those places? IP blocking is proving to be the most successful thing I've got going. I do like to make it forget IPs after a while as they could just be temporary. Most of my IP blocks I apply for a month, it's an entirely arbitrary time period I know. I did do an experiment and captured all registrations and form submissions for a day and looked at the data. The only pattern that ALL spammers that day could be identified by was their password. The password was either '0' or '[a-zA-Z0-9]{10}'. Unfortunately I can't just block those patterns as I have no idea how many real users would be affected by such a thing. Obv' I don't have their passwords and just store hashes, and I don't normally transmit a password except for noscript graceful degradation. So basically... whilst I was pleased to find a pattern it's not one I can implement against without doing something undesirable elsewhere.