Why is 98% of all botspam advertising about the superbowl?
reddit / irc

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ZdrytchX · 2023-07-07 16:52

I get that the superbowl is a thing in USA, but we're not all from
fucking america. We don't all give a shit about your head smashing
football.

Also all the hidden syntax shows up as invalid characters on my
client, so I can't read their stupid ascii art.

*Btw, is there an IRC client out there or a hexchat setting where you
can make it so you will ignore all DMs from users not in a channel
that you're part of for more than half an hour or something?*

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OneofLittleHarmony · 2023-07-07 17:34

I think the server is called Super Bowl or something? It’s probably
some program gone wild.

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TiagoPaolini · 2023-07-07 18:52

About ignoring private messages, you can set the mode `+R` so only
registered users can message you:

```
/mode YourNick +R
```

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m1ss1ontomars2k4 · 2023-07-07 20:35

The Super Bowl was almost 5 months ago. Are you sure you're reading
the messages correctly?

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LionMans_Account · 2023-07-07 20:56

Seems like the supernets spammers are back in full force.  Even hit up
my vanity channel last night.  Looks like they've been doing this for
several years now.

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pwpreacher · 2023-07-07 22:15

the spam isn't about the Superbowl

It is about a channel called #superbowl on a network that likes to
describe itself as the Wild West of IRC.

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zeamp · 2023-07-07 22:23

SUPERNETS ENTERS THE CHAT?

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zeamp · 2023-07-07 22:23

Registered to what?

-EFnet

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TiagoPaolini · 2023-07-07 22:33

Registered using NickServ, so you set a password for your nick,
preventing others from using it.

For setting up (you need to be using the nick you want to register,
and you are going to need to verify your email):

```
/ns register password email
```

For identifying (though IRC clients have the options for doing this
automatically):

```
/ns identify password
```

For linking another nick into the same profile, so you can have
multiple nicks in the same email and password:

```
/ns link nick password
```

You may run `/ns help` for seeing other NickServ commands, but those
should suffice.

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zeamp · 2023-07-07 22:41

*- Network specific features may apply.*

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TiagoPaolini · 2023-07-07 22:57

Each network is different, if they don't offer nick registration, then
they don't.

There are still other user modes you can add to yourself in order to
block messages:

* `+c`: on users that share a channel with you may message you.
* `+g`: only users that you have approved may message you (`/accept
+nick` to approve, or `/accept -nick` to remove a previous approval).

If that doesn't work in the network, then the way is to use the
client's ignore list.

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Chilly_Gills · 2023-07-08 00:41

sigh

​

Don't worry man, I gotchu.

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Chilly_Gills · 2023-07-08 00:43

So sick of these supernets dipshits.

It's not hard to spam on IRC, man. It's not a clever hack. It's
shitting on one of the last fully-corporate corners of the internet.
It's just sad and lame.

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ZdrytchX · 2023-07-09 08:12

> `+c`: on users that share a channel with you may message you.

unfortunately that's how they find me. They join some random channels
and they just spam dm everyone on it

> `+g` Hmm this could be a partial solution to half of the problem,
thanks.

But yeah if only nickserv exists on most IRC servers that would be
great

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boodleboody · 2023-07-10 22:32

Spamban *i*r*c*.*s*u*p*e*r*n*e*t*.*o*r*g* through channel or oper
settings

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ZdrytchX · 2023-07-11 10:27

teach me sempai

I looked it up and it seems hexchat has no such setting :(

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boodleboody · 2023-07-13 13:42

Its usually a setting for admins/channel ops to use. Some irc’s have
user settings that you can change though that might have a similar
result.

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ioncehackedmyschool · 2023-07-20 03:25

join irc\[.\]supernets\[.\]org channel #superbowl for free blowjobs!