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Ernomouse |
Feb 22, 2009, 11:57 am |
| What say you, should I take time and remove some of the most fishy looking members we\'ve got? 50%-75% of the people registered here haven\'t posted a single post, which is kind of worrying... We could also have a welcome thread here somewhere to which you should post something if you don\'t want to get deleted. I know there should be a comma in that sentence. |
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Fluffy_Bot |
Feb 22, 2009, 12:24 pm |
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Ernomouse |
Feb 22, 2009, 12:25 pm |
| Oh my god, that a spambot if I ever saw one! | |
Z |
Feb 22, 2009, 2:16 pm |
| I hope they post in this thread if they don\'t want to get deleted. I\'d like to know what\'s the reason to register on a forum and never post there. Maybe they want to access the spam section? I register on a forum only when I want to post. | |
Eagle V |
Feb 22, 2009, 2:41 pm |
| I guess they just want some Ivan hints. | |
capristo |
Feb 22, 2009, 3:26 pm |
| I say leave them be. They are definitely not spam bots if that\'s what you\'re worried about. Maybe they joined and then discovered the spam section and decided not to post  Anyways, any forum on the net will have inactive members. Makes no sense to me either but they\'re harmless |
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Ernomouse |
Feb 23, 2009, 2:54 pm |
| Yes, spambots are what I\'m concerned about. What makes you know they\'re harmless? | |
Somagu |
Feb 24, 2009, 1:50 am |
| I doubt that they\'re bots. If they ARE bots, we can take the necessary action, and then maybe start taking preliminary actions, but beyond that, I say we leave them be until any possible bots make their move. What harm could be done? | |
4zb4 |
Feb 24, 2009, 3:19 am |
| Does anyone here actually think a spambot would come to this forum? | |
Somagu |
Feb 24, 2009, 5:06 am |
| We\'ve been surprised before. | |
capristo |
Feb 24, 2009, 5:52 am |
| Because a spam bot would\'ve posted spam by now. And had fishy locations/interests besides just the username. And the captcha to register is practically unbeatable. | |
chaostrom |
Feb 24, 2009, 10:51 am |
| I must side with the above. We\'re safe... For now. | |
Ernomouse |
Feb 24, 2009, 7:06 pm |
| What if they\'re coded to go off at the same time in the near future? It\'s not that hard to do, believe... *hums Paranoid* | |
capristo |
Feb 24, 2009, 7:46 pm |
Well  the funny thing is, since this isn\'t phpbb or vbulletin or one of the popular forum softwares, the bots probably don\'t know how to post spam |
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Ernomouse |
Feb 25, 2009, 10:32 am |
| That, my friend, has made all my fears go away. Cheers for cap, the creator of our most-probably bot-resistant board! | |
slob |
Feb 25, 2009, 2:01 pm |
| Erno, Just because you\'re paranoid doesn\'t mean the spambots aren\'t after you!!!  |
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Who?Me? |
Mar 3, 2009, 4:51 pm |
| I\'m still here, just looking around the forum from time to time to see if something new has shown up |
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Rotinaj |
Mar 18, 2009, 2:13 am |
| Hello everyone! I just wanted to post about how much I love IVAN. I think it\'s great. Almost as great as the money I can save you on your mortgage rates. my pills are number one |
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JoKe |
Mar 20, 2009, 7:18 am |
| They\'re here, the spambots are here! | |
capristo |
Mar 20, 2009, 7:33 am |
| You gotta be kidding me! I cleaned it up and deleted the user. At least, haha, the spam was about world of warcraft... weird Anyways I thought this captcha was invincible! apparently not. I hope this doesn\'t become common. lol.. JoKe is like the town crier proclaiming the end of the world to the villagers try to keep it down JoKe or they\'ll panic and form a mob, and come after me |
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Somagu |
Mar 20, 2009, 8:02 am |
| Speaking of which, I dug into the wiki just now and noticed a number of spam articles. | |
Ernomouse |
Mar 20, 2009, 3:38 pm |
| Ah, it would appear that JoKe has gained a title. See the appropariate thread for more. Oh wow, I didn\'t know wikis can be spammed! Anyway. I will now take actions in case there\'s another bot out there calling for friends. |
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capristo |
Mar 20, 2009, 4:10 pm |
| I think the forum is still pretty safe for now. If more start coming, I\'ll try to create my own \"captcha\" quiz first. (Something like, what is the background color of the banana pickaxe logo? Answer: red). That will be easy for people to solve but the bots won\'t know how to since it\'s custom. Unfortunately the wiki is not so safe.. I deleted all the spam bots, and they are all from around January 8-9, and there haven\'t been any since then so maybe we just got unlucky. You have to be registered to post on the Wiki already and that\'s obviously not stopping them. Not really sure what we can do about the wiki besides keep watch |
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BDR |
Mar 31, 2009, 9:45 am |
| This might come in handy for the wiki and the forum. | |