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Re: The War Against Spam - Blocking Words

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Sunsshines is not online. Sunsshines
Joined: 16 Sep 2012
Total Posts: 8395
12 Sep 2013 12:52 PM
Users are abusing the Comments very heavily, and I hate to say this, but we need to block more and more words. I also suggest adding a system that detects whether a word is bad or not, like this;

Gets the word, removes spaces, removes numbers, ('s,and {'s then replaces them with |'s, gets blocked words, gets the amount of characters in the word (ex: Trade would have 5 characters), gets blocked words that have those much characters, see's if it has the exact same letters minus the missing ones and the |'s (in other words, gets Trade and tr|d|, compares them, removes the characters |, a, and e, compares them, if the same then blocks it. This would help with stuff like TR4D3, D0M4IN, etc.

Here's a list of words that should be blocked and would help fight spam:

DOT
- Would help fight the survey spams.

how to get
- Block this statement, not the exact words

Come
- Would help fight the "come to my place" spam

Place
- Would help fight the "come to my place" spam

buy gear
- Block this statement, not the exact words. Would help fight the "come to my place" spam

Domain
- The false New ROBLOX Domain Spam would die

Trade
- "Send Trades" is the most common spam

for free BC
- Block this statement, not the exact words, that way some of the copy/paste spam would die

free BC
- Block this statement, not the exact words

copy/paste
- Block this statement, not the exact words

copy and paste
- Block this statement, not the exact words

Profile
- Would help fight the "See my profile blurb" spam

Blurb
- Would help fight the "See my profile blurb" spam

Follow me
- Block this statement, not the exact words

Follow
- Would help fight the "come to my place" spam

Primary
- Would help fight "Join my primary" spam

Group
- Would help fight "Join my clan/group" spam

Clan
- Would help fight "Join my clan" spam

Legion
- Would help fight "Join my clan" spam

Send me
- Block this statement, not the exact words

Join
- Would help "Join me at my place" spam, and "Join my group" spam.

Of course existing posts would remain, but new posts with these words in them attempting to be made would be blocked. if the spam dies out completely then they would be re-allowed again. This would take some work but would work well to fight spam.

To add on, words will be removed once that kind of spam is completely dead.
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Sunsshines is not online. Sunsshines
Joined: 16 Sep 2012
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12 Sep 2013 01:39 PM
bump
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Sunsshines is not online. Sunsshines
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12 Sep 2013 03:00 PM
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bigbadke12 is not online. bigbadke12
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12 Sep 2013 03:17 PM
Most of these words are used for non-spam purposes...
This would be like the blacklist part 2...
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thomje112 is not online. thomje112
Joined: 16 Sep 2011
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12 Sep 2013 03:18 PM
This would not be a happy ROBLOX.

I use those words all the time, and not for spam. No support.
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Sunsshines is not online. Sunsshines
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12 Sep 2013 03:26 PM
What other choice have we come to?

Most of ROBLOX uses it for spam, and whether the non-spammers like it or not, we need to take this action to end the spam once and for all, plus it wouldn't be forever, once the spam ultimately dies out then it will be allowed again.
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Malwarebytes is not online. Malwarebytes
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12 Sep 2013 03:29 PM
No, just no....


Doing this will anger people who were not spamming.
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Sunsshines is not online. Sunsshines
Joined: 16 Sep 2012
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12 Sep 2013 04:16 PM
@Mal: Explain how to stop spamming then, huh?

Oh, right, this is the only way.
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Malwarebytes is not online. Malwarebytes
Joined: 24 Feb 2011
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12 Sep 2013 04:27 PM
"@Mal: Explain how to stop spamming then, huh?

Oh, right, this is the only way."


No, this is not the only way to stop spamming. As I said, this will anger users who never intended on spamming.


You want my answer? Okay, there is no official way to "stop" spamming.
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bigbadke12 is not online. bigbadke12
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12 Sep 2013 04:51 PM
There is always a way to spam no matter how much a site tries to prevent it.
And this would be like censoring the many, because of the few bad apples in the Roblox Community.
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david89091 is not online. david89091
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12 Sep 2013 04:56 PM
We should just block the word carleton. Thats it.
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Sunsshines is not online. Sunsshines
Joined: 16 Sep 2012
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12 Sep 2013 05:04 PM
@Big: the hundreds*

Plus, why'd you need the word Join for example? Why need Follow Me? You don't need it really except for spamming.
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FearReaper777 is not online. FearReaper777
Joined: 21 Apr 2009
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12 Sep 2013 05:11 PM
Link Blockers, Spam, and everything nice
These were the ingredients chosen
To create the perfect comment system
But ROBLOX accidentally
Added an extra ingredients to the concoction--
Chemical 3600 second wait time
Thus, The spam bots were born!

THIS IS AN EXTREME THIRST!
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jorge5879 is not online. jorge5879
Joined: 02 Oct 2009
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12 Sep 2013 05:16 PM
no just no
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Sunsshines is not online. Sunsshines
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12 Sep 2013 05:20 PM
If every one of these words were blocked then the spam would die.

EVERY SINGLE one of these words is used in most of the spam on ROBLOX
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Malwarebytes is not online. Malwarebytes
Joined: 24 Feb 2011
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12 Sep 2013 05:24 PM
There's no way to stop spam, as you can see, people will just bypass the filter using spaces. Not to mention, this will anger ROBLOX users who never intended to spam.

It's completely useless.
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marcopolo444 is not online. marcopolo444
Joined: 02 May 2010
Total Posts: 5114
12 Sep 2013 05:27 PM
how about we block the word Sunsshines too. better yet, let's remove roblox altogether!!!
Yea, no support for any of this.
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BxBGhostz is not online. BxBGhostz
Joined: 06 Jan 2013
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12 Sep 2013 06:15 PM
spammers find a way around it. For example "builderman told me how to get 1000 robux"

"bldermen told meh how 2 get 1000 rs"
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EpicSpartan32 is not online. EpicSpartan32
Joined: 26 Dec 2010
Total Posts: 518
12 Sep 2013 06:27 PM
No Support, Roblox needs more free speech, not less.
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Sunsshines is not online. Sunsshines
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13 Sep 2013 08:14 AM
@Mal: It auto removes spaces, ('s, numbers, and blocks the word DOT, then replaces the missing characters (Other than ('s and DOT) with |, gets words from the filter, compares them, if they seem to have the same characters minus the |'s then it blocks it.

There is no way to bypass with this update, rather a use of different words.

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UnknownPie13 is not online. UnknownPie13
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13 Sep 2013 09:41 AM
You forgot "donate"
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Marshallmario is not online. Marshallmario
Joined: 01 Jun 2011
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13 Sep 2013 10:13 AM
Ok , here it goes.................Support...
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Malwarebytes is not online. Malwarebytes
Joined: 24 Feb 2011
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13 Sep 2013 02:20 PM
@Suns:

Still, it will anger the community who weren't intending to spam.

You can try to prevent spam, but, think of the community. Think of a better idea.
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Sunsshines is not online. Sunsshines
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13 Sep 2013 04:22 PM
BETTER IDEA:

http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=112897282
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