[UCIMC-Tech] Spam Mass Deletion Disabled

[Mike Lehman]

The website was back up and mass delete is working again this morning, 
so I cleaned up 500+ pieces of spam that arrived last night

Makes me wonder...Is there anyway that a "duplicate post" or other such 
dialogue that interrupted the posting process could be inserted if the 
title is the same to prevent such abuse? If N=>2, it would throw a 
wrench in the automated process used (posts were coming in at around 
10/minute at its height) since I doubt a human was doing it that 
rapidly, without being too obtrusive to legitimate posting?

Anyway, something like that is what I want for Xmas...or maybe someone 
else that pays enough attention to the website to help clean up the crap 
from time to time.
Mike

On 12/9/2011 12:22 AM, Mike Lehman wrote:
> The spammers are busy tonight. I deleted a hundred or so earlier with 
> the mass delete option box checked.
>
> Came back and there's lots more. This time, I get an error messages 
> when trying to do the same thing:
> "An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site 
> administrator."
>
> Then the server crashed -- or something. Connection is timing out. 
> Probably sack time, so if anyone gets the chance to clean things up 
> once it's working, indulge yourself.
> Mike
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