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Title: Watch out before deleting bot accounts! (risks of false positives)
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on March 01, 2015, 06:27:52 AM
The other day, Netham45 signed up but his account landed on the spam account page, with a yellow icon because it could not be checked. Also, sometimes, accounts will have a blacklisted IP, but their email won't be. In some cases, the last time a blacklisted IP matched a spam account will date back several months ago, which implies that it is not 100% guaranteed to be a spam IP anymore (especially with rotating IPs).

This is why before deleting accounts you should make sure that it's not a false positive. To check this, click the red icon next to the nickname in the approval page. For example, this account: http://codewalr.us/index.php?action=profile;u=156 http://www.stopforumspam.com/search?q=204.44.92.60 only matches 1 from July 2014. I am thinking that we should approve such accounts anyway in case it was a legit user, and if the user spams, then at least it will just be 1 account spamming rather than losing a potential good user.

Also, if the icon is yellow it means the Spam db was down when the person registered.
Title: Re: Watch out before deleting bot accounts! (risks of false positives)
Post by: Yuki on March 01, 2015, 08:08:25 PM
Also note that SFS does not support IPv6, so users will automatically be marked as suspect (yellow icon).
Title: Re: Watch out before deleting bot accounts! (risks of false positives)
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on March 01, 2015, 10:57:12 PM
Oh that could explain whyNetham was yellow.
Title: Re: Watch out before deleting bot accounts! (risks of false positives)
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on March 02, 2015, 07:42:06 AM
Couldn't you made him turn blue? D:
Title: Re: Watch out before deleting bot accounts! (risks of false positives)
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on March 02, 2015, 12:15:37 PM
Nah :P
Title: Re: Watch out before deleting bot accounts! (risks of false positives)
Post by: aetios on March 02, 2015, 06:34:13 PM
Oh damn, that might have been me who rejected him <_<
Title: Re: Watch out before deleting bot accounts! (risks of false positives)
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on March 02, 2015, 08:22:44 PM
Nah because his account is intact. SFS just spazzed out while he was singing up.
Title: Re: Watch out before deleting bot accounts! (risks of false positives)
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on March 13, 2015, 01:05:09 AM
Btw what should we do about actual spam accounts? Should we delete them like I did on Omni back then? Right now I didn't do it with the three first bots because it's not part of my job, but the 4th bot was deleted. I think that deleting the accounts and letting IP bans expire after half a year would remove much clutter. But we should probably not delete any real user account unless it's a duplicate.