Hi,
I was looking at the forum today and noticed a spam post on the announcement.
The "report post" button does not seem to work.
I was curious to see how many spam accounts there are on the forum, so I wrote a small python scraper that looks at the latest accounts and looks for the word "escort".
For the last 500 accounts, I found 51 (!!!) profiles with that word in their bio.
Are you aware that around 10% of new profiles seem to be spam?
I can keep running my small scraper, but I suspect that: 1. it goes against the rules of this website, 2. it's not the most effective way to do it.
Below you'll find the list of these 51 spam profiles.
Let me know if you'd like me to share the script. The reports.php endpoint doesn't seem to work.
Happy holidays :),
Fabio
There seem to be a lot more than just "escort" accounts (really hope my account won't get banned by a future strict filtering because I wrote this word ;)).
A lot of profiles seem to be promoting their business: https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2599 (note also that account info and image do not match).
There's models trained to detect such spam text, I'm really tempted to run one of those. I'm just currently afraid to get my IP blacklisted for too many requests
I was looking at the forum today and noticed a spam post on the announcement.
The "report post" button does not seem to work.
I was curious to see how many spam accounts there are on the forum, so I wrote a small python scraper that looks at the latest accounts and looks for the word "escort".
For the last 500 accounts, I found 51 (!!!) profiles with that word in their bio.
Are you aware that around 10% of new profiles seem to be spam?
I can keep running my small scraper, but I suspect that: 1. it goes against the rules of this website, 2. it's not the most effective way to do it.
Below you'll find the list of these 51 spam profiles.
Quote:https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2737
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2736
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2734
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2719
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2688
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2683
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2682
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2678
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2658
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2620
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2618
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2603
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2542
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2504
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2503
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2502
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2501
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2500
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2481
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2475
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2467
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2435
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2386
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2376
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2368
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2365
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2329
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2311
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2310
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2307
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2306
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2293
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2285
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2256
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2226
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2222
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2219
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2193
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2188
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2187
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2183
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2176
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2160
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2114
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2108
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2100
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2076
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2072
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2049
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2045
https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2043
Let me know if you'd like me to share the script. The reports.php endpoint doesn't seem to work.
Happy holidays :),
Fabio
There seem to be a lot more than just "escort" accounts (really hope my account won't get banned by a future strict filtering because I wrote this word ;)).
A lot of profiles seem to be promoting their business: https://ludii.games/forums/member.php?ac...e&uid=2599 (note also that account info and image do not match).
There's models trained to detect such spam text, I'm really tempted to run one of those. I'm just currently afraid to get my IP blacklisted for too many requests