Users pretend using RodgerlvvGG, all from Afghanistan, accumulated registrations.

Michael Uplawski · 12-15-2020, 12:21 AM

First question, here in “distributions”: Is there a distribution “RodgerlvvGG”?

Looks random to me but is the common denominator for a group of users, registered to LinuxQuestions.org between the 1st and the 16th of october.

Move this thread, once it has evolved into something worth moving.

TY.

ondoho · 12-15-2020, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Michael Uplawski

First question, here in “distributions”: Is there a distribution “RodgerlvvGG”?

Looks random to me but is the common denominator for a group of users, registered to LinuxQuestions.org between the 1st and the 16th of october.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=RodgerlvvGG

No results.

Probably all the same spammer.

Not necessarily from Afghanistan (or did you check their IPs?).

Michael Uplawski · 12-15-2020, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by ondoho

Not necessarily from Afghanistan (or did you check their IPs?).

You are right and no. I would not even know how to do that.

But it is curious that the user-names are generated in the same way to look as random as can be, but the distribution and the country are set to fixed values. Curious too, that all these usernames appear in the list of recent visitors to my blog-entry about OOXML-validation, a topic which virtually interests nobody.

Edit: Seven hours later more than seventy new visits... what is this? A flooding-attack?

ondoho · 12-16-2020, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Michael Uplawski

You are right and no. I would not even know how to do that.

You have to be a mod at least.

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Seven hours later more than seventy new visits... what is this? A flooding-attack?

New visits, or new posts, or new users? You need to report suspicious posts, help the mods.

Michael Uplawski · 12-16-2020, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ondoho

You have to be a mod at least.
New visits, or new posts, or new users? You need to report suspicious posts, help the mods.

visits. I would have reacted very differently in the contrary case; and I would have known where to place my OP. But doubting is important when there are only possibilities and no knowledge whatsoever about what is going on.

As the mods have not yet reacted (being informed about this thread), I tend to let it rest again. No news visits since yesterday evening – CET that is.

ondoho · 12-16-2020, 01:12 AM

I repeat: you need to report suspicious posts, as in clicking the Report button etc.
Narrating about it here without linking to the users' posts does not help.

Michael Uplawski · 12-16-2020, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ondoho

I repeat: you need to report suspicious posts, as in clicking the Report button etc.
Narrating about it here without linking to the users' posts does not help.

You do not understand this thread or my postings. I am sorry. Nowhere did I mention “users' posts” and the moderators are informed about a possible issue. Does it make sense to repeat... I detected a massive amount of visits to 1 of my blog-posts by random user-names. The rest must be obvious from my OP onward, but I am unable to express any better than I did already.

ondoho · 12-16-2020, 01:18 PM

Well I thought better to say it one time too many.

Why are you concerned about the visits to your LQ blog? it is still pretty close to the top on this listing, so the visits could be completely unrelated to the content, just a spambot clicking through whatever's close at hand.

BTW, where do you see who looked at your blog posts? All I see is a number (on my own blog posts).

Michael Uplawski · 12-16-2020, 02:30 PM

Here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...1&d=1608150570

None of my other blog-posts have had many visits, recently and the last one 180.

ondoho · 12-17-2020, 02:15 AM

I found it. My own blog posts have also been visited by obvious spammers (aside: I wonder why LQ doesn't ban them proactively, deleting their profile pages with links to spam sites etc.).
If yours shows unusually high numbers, my guess is it has something to do with certain keywords. E.g. threads containing words like "Android ringtones" in their title are almost guranteed to attract spammers. I have no idea what that keyword is in your case though.