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Comment on Is anyone else getting failures to generate reports when reporting the constant spam from "Nicole, the Fediverse Girl" which originates from a different, new instance every time?

AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Some admins have been developing and sharing solutions, from regex filters to going down into the databases itself.

For my small instance and personally, I haven’t seen any new messages in a while now, after adding this regex to the slur filter mechanism:

(.*(\n)*Hi.*[nN]icole.*[fF]ediverse [cC]hick(.|\n)*)

Sadly my brain is blanking which instance admins I should credit for that, but it was shared around somewhere.

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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I love how useful Regex is. I hate writing Regex. Special shout out to anyone who can do it well.

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- pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Regex is great, but PCRE deserves a special place in hell. You don’t know unreadable until you’ve encountered regex that uses recursive matching, backrefererences, and subroutine calls.
  
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  - Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    💀
    
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ha, I literally just got a new message with spaces between every letter to try to get around filters like this.

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- AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Makes sense, it’s most likely an ongoing arms race - I’m probably coasting under the radar a bit from running an instance with effectively only 3 people to target at the moment.
  
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