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PSA for people with #Wordpress blogs: do you know that you can turn off comments on old posts?

In the last few months I have noticed a significant uptick in spammy comments on my Wordpress blogs (I have 4).

Well there is a way to remedy all that: you can simply turn off comments on old blog posts by going to:

Settings -> Discussion -> and checking "Automatically close comments on old posts"

(You can even determine the "oldness" of posts, for example, older than 7 days, 14 days... anything you'd like)

Enabling this made all the difference for me. I could not recommend it more.

End of my PSA 🤗

Have a great day everyone!

#blog #blogging #selfhosting #spam

#PSA
#Mastodon, nor the #Fediverse in general will never ask you to "verify" with payment details, especially not from a non-moderator account. If you get a message asking you to verify, it is a #Scam #Bot, and you should block and #report it to #moderation.

We are currently getting a wave of #spam from bots like this. Again, do not even click the link, just block and report.

- TechHub Moderation

Please note: Until Mastodon's bugged notification filters are fixed, I redirect all mentions to /dev/null.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but I can not tolerate the current amount of #SPAM.

Codeberg: Spam and DoS attacks on non-commercial development platform

Masses of spam messages, overflowing email inboxes and clogged internet lines: Anonymous attacks plague the non-profit Github alternative.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Codeberg-Spam-and-DoS-attacks-on-non-commercial-development-platform-10281505.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Cybercrime #DoSSchwachstelle #Git #GitHub #OpenSource #Softwareentwicklung #Spam #news

I am using Google Classroom, and Gmail is marking all email notifications from my Google classroom as spam. It's email generated by one Google product going into another Google product. What on earth is happening to flag the notification as spam?

#Google #GoogleClassroom #Gmail #spam #MonopolistsDontInnovate

This post is not an invitation to scold me for using Google products or to suggest alternatives. It is also not a request for technical support.

Got spam emails this morning by someone who opened an issue on GitHub with what was probably a very unsafe link and then just tagged dozens of users over and over and over. Why we needed 50 copies in a row of the same notification, IDK. Thankfully, the account is terminated already, but if this starts to be a regular thing, I might have to abandon GitHub altogether.

#GitHub
#Spam
#Spammers
#Scammers

If you get a DM saying "call me the Fediverse chick", it's a spam. Don't click the links, but DO report it!

Reports from users are really important, especially if they are about spam DMs because no one else can see the spam except the user.

You can report posts by clicking ⋯ on the post and selecting "Report". When you report it, make sure to select the option to forward the report to the server it came from so that the admin there can delete the spammer's account.

#FediTips #Spam

告知：垃圾消息攻击
最近有人在滥用开放注册的实例发送垃圾消息，来给一个游艇交易网站打广告。
你可以使用站内搜索功能搜索yachttrading并拉黑绝大多数帐号，管理员可以进一步封禁本站的帐号。垃圾消息通常包含一小段文字和一个到游艇交易网站的链接，文字使用的语言不定，但都非常生硬地试图把回复帖子的主题转到游艇上。

#垃圾消息 #什么值得B #Spam

已经发现的垃圾消息帐号：
https://dvd.chat/@lijh
https://dvd.chat/@jonnyking11
https://dvd.chat/@kew11
https://dvd.chat/@keke
https://dvd.chat/@kliu
https://dvd.chat/@winnie11
https://dvd.chat/@xiaoli
https://dvd.chat/@likeke
https://dvd.chat/@lidada

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#spam #ios #android

This is a long time coming. I've been posting about the decline of arXiv's CS category for a long time now, and even had a few conversations with someone I know who works there about it. Personally, I think the slop started in 2018--prior to generative AI slop--when the CS category at arXiv began the unsustainable exponential growth in submissions that has continued till today. An increasing number of what amounted to corporate whitepapers and other marketing materials were being posted on arXiv to give them the appearance of scientific credibility. There was a fairly clear arXiv-to-Nature pipeline. Citation counts were pumped as some of the scientometric services count arXiv "articles" as citations, and some researchers adopted the bad scholarly habit of citing arXiv preprints instead of the final publication. It was and still is a mess. My understanding is that arXiv was meant as a place for people to put high-quality but pre-publication articles, but at least in the CS category it's drifted quite far from that.

I gather they've finally taken this measure because of the preponderance AI-generated slop, but with any luck these other issues will improve too. The arXiv press release states “Review/survey articles or position papers submitted to arXiv without this documentation will be likely to be rejected and not appear on arXiv” so it does sound like they are acknowledging the other problems and intend to enforce their rules more strictly in the future.

"arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received."
From https://infosec.exchange/users/josephcox/statuses/115486903712973154

#arXiv #preprint #CS #spam #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI