The rundown:


I've seen an anon or two trying to fight the spam with single angry sages. I have a better method.

I took a hundred copies of a jpg image that says FREE VIRUS and individually rotated them all so 4chan thinks they're unique images. I then pick a baby spam thread as my target (one with less than 20-30 posts) and set xChan (the best directory dumper ever) to post one copy in it every 60 or 120 seconds with sage in the email field.

Because of me, the spammers have altered their robot bumps to include "not a virus" and often pretend to be concerned anons posting that the spam isn't spam, but it doesn't matter.

I can kill a spam thread by myself with only a second's effort, and so can you.

The spammers are monitoring these threads, and they will often cut their losses and shut off the robot bumps if a thread is being sagebombed.

If more people do this, we can disrupt the spammers to the point where they don't bother posting here anymore.

/s/exy beautiful women dump to follow momentarily as soon as I bomb a spam thread or two.

bump for Spammer

Relax guys, it's all being sorted out.

I just killed a thread.

And speaking of our friends the spammers, I just saw this little gem on page 2.

I don't know why the spammers have such a hardon for using Blogspot sites as their base. Maybe the site allows for their favorite brands of malicious code.

Report Blogspot spammers here:
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=spam

I anal raped a spambot. It was ok but not best.

>>6948861
i'm a macfag — you know any alternatives to xchan that i can use?

I have folders full of FREE VIRUS images you can use: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LTJ6F8OT
You'll have to rotate them all individually (or resize, etc. to change their data) to make sure you don't get blocked for posting duplicate images if someone else has dumped them on the board.

If you don't trust me enough to download the folder (and I applaud you for being suspicious), make your own! I recommend black text on white background, and no bigger than 10kb each. Two or three words is preferable to long phrases; remember, the point of this is to catch people's eyes and give the spam threads negative publicity.

It only takes me a second to do this, but I can only bomb one spam thread at a time without fucking around with proxies. That's where I need your help.

96 images of BULLSHIT VIRUS SPAM on green background:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FJVN7TPK

96 images of FREE VIRUS with the Abominable Snowman:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6TRCURQA

96 images of FREE VIRUS on a green swirl background:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZTBVYZG8

>>6948927
yeah that one just seems to have popped up today.
Probably re-written to post spam threads from users computer

Download my how-to guide for vigilante moderation here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?izmnhl55iym

It explains how to maximize your impact on the spammers, how to properly set up a directory of images to dump, and has some other helpful knowledge about the way this board works.


>>6948935
Man, people ask me about Mac and Linux options all the time. I don't know anything off the top of my head, but I can look around.

Just as a curious poster, wouldn't emulating the approach large A/V products use by combining some level of heuristics with a spam 'signature' (phraselist, common photos) so that while no one component could auto-ban you, the servers would flag posts automagically and then delete any that meet all of the criteria?

Actually thinking about it, that's probably what the system does now and it's just not been 'tuned' to be most effective against this particular wave of spam, but I've already gone and typed all that out.

Also, some /s/ofter stuff still /s/ worthy.

>>6948944
Remembers me the brown boxes

>>6948953
The image board software is not that sophisticated... neither are the technical abilities of the mods

>>6948953
I have an plan to make a simple jewnix script that would do exactly what you have described, except with the sagebombing instead of the deleting. Unfortunately it's finals time and I'm lazy. But maybe over xmas break.

>>6948944
Off topic a bit... but: SAUCE

http://linux.wareseeker.com/Internet/ajax-image-dump-system-1.1.zip/317881

This might be something useful for Linux users.

I don't see any Mac imagedumpers. Someone should really develop something for the untapped user base.

But by posting free virus images all we are doing is bumping the spam threads even more. So we are actually helping them by keeping them so high on the front page.

>>6949021
You're slow, aren't you?

>>6949021
By putting the word sage in the email field you can post in a thread without bumping it.

>>6948990
sorry no sauce

>>6949021
that's what the sage is for.

(and yes, he is slow, but that's 99% of the problem here, so many cluebies actually feeding the spammers by clicking their shit)

>>6948898
by the love of jesus christ, would anyone give me a name a link? i see random pictures of her but no one ever gives me a name, please!!! i beg you!

>>6948861
i've seen that before, and it looks like a copy pasta,

anyways, i'll be productive

>>6949065
It's not copypasta if it's always the same guy posting it ;) ... it's a public service announcement.

>>6949065
It looks like copypasta because I wrote it and copypasta it here as a PSA/ recruitment tool.

This is my angry at the spammers face.

Anyone else with random /s/exy women to post is more than welcome to do so.

>>6948935
You can write a bash script. I've dumped images and auto saged threads before with wget, written from scratch on the spot. I usually don't even think about it (5ish lines).

Maybe I'll write something for Linux/Max/Unix. I've never used xchan so I'm not sure what all it does but I figure a text file with comments and a folder with images, randomly selected and posted w/ sage = win?

>>6949160
A person of better programming skills than myself could easily write a perlscript to parse the html to find the spam threads using a wordlist, then use curl to bomb them. That's my plan

>>6949160
Could you write it so it posts them in order by name?

It would make it more orderly; and if you wanted to stop it and move to another spamthread you would know which images to temporarily delete.

The spammers are being tenacious today. More people running xChan or posting good threads would be highly appreciated.

hey i was in that thread!

>>6949064
that is Roza A from Met art

Another thought that I had was that we could co-opt spam threads by simply putting a few warnings at the top, then changing subjects "this thread is now about" style.

>>6949160
>I figure a text file with comments

Remember that the comments have to at least have some uniqueness to avoid getting blocked for flooding. Even something as simple as the first post having a 1 at the end, the second having a 2 at the end, etc. You could probably write something into it that automatically posts N+1 at the tail of the comment, right?

>>6949205
I was too! It looks like a few comments were cut from the end.

>>6949217
That won't work because of how the board displays comments. Unless someone clicks on a thread to open it, all they can see are the OP post and the last five responses.

A single warning will get buried under spambot comments in under two minutes. That's why a constant series of warning images needs to be posted - to keep pace with the spambot bumps.

My how-to guide explains how this all works:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?izmnhl55iym

didn't you read what the mod was saying? spamming the spammers just makes it more difficult for them to delete them. making legitimate threads with content is the best way to fight the spammers

>>6949212
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! you have no idea how happy i am!!