Spambots and You

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:48 pm

iam7805 wrote:Well, your amount of posts should probably come in to play as well...

I'm confused, what are you saying ?

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:24 pm

gamemasterAS wrote:
iam7805 wrote:Well, your amount of posts should probably come in to play as well...
I'm confused, what are you saying ?

That if you delete those that have been inactive for 60 days, only do the ones without posts.

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:53 pm

vskid wrote:
gamemasterAS wrote:
iam7805 wrote:Well, your amount of posts should probably come in to play as well...
I'm confused, what are you saying ?
That if you delete those that have been inactive for 60 days, only do the ones without posts.

Thats a good idea.

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:55 pm

It's useless though. Spambots are new acounts, not old inactive accounts that suddenly start spamming

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:53 pm

daguuy wrote:It's useless though. Spambots are new acounts, not old inactive accounts that suddenly start spamming

They still take up names that other people might want. It would also give a more accurate member count.

Post by **gannon** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:48 pm

We've had this discussion a few times before, we will not be deleting users that do not post.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:50 am

gannon wrote:We've had this discussion a few times before, we will not be deleting users that do not post.

What about SpongeBuell's 2+2 idea? It seems like it could work, and if they figure out that they need to put "4" in the answer box, we could change it to random simple math questions.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:31 am

vskid wrote:
gannon wrote:We've had this discussion a few times before, we will not be deleting users that do not post.
What about SpongeBuell's 2+2 idea? It seems like it could work, and if they figure out that they need to put "4" in the answer box, we could change it to random simple math questions.

Well the whole "2+2" thing is up to Ben. He's the only one that has access to the FTP server and so this is all waiting on him. I'm hoping he'll do it before New Years.

Also I'm working on thinning out the spam bots that have a 0 post count. This will be a continuing thing for a few days.

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:54 am

gamemasterAS wrote:
josh wrote:please stop harassing me.
I was just kidding around i like you a lot better then that killgood dude and that new chowaka person.

i noticed that after you posted this chowaka quit posting lol. good thing too because he was really starting to bother me with his every 5 minutes coming up with some idea he thought was ingenious but werent.

EnterTheHatrix · Post by **EnterTheHatrix** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:04 am

I PM'd Ben and recommended to him that he install a simple mod that will prevent them from signing up in the first place.

Anti-robot registration:
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/560

That should stop them..

It's relatively easy to install, just make sure you do a full backup before applying it.

Hopefully if he installs it, this problem will be resolved.. Otherwise, we'll have to keep dealing with this crap.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:11 am

God lets hope so. These things are pissing me off. I see these things before the mods sometimes. Then again, i've got no life

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:34 pm

@Mr.Game and watch: Replying to spambots is spam, so STOP DOING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just leave it alone and wait for a mod to delete it.

Mr.Game and watch · Post by **Mr.Game and watch** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 1:20 pm

Today a new spambot came named Abanhaup0 he Posting Porn.he a Sterenceter.

cheese007 · Post by **cheese007** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 1:42 pm

You do know they can't understand what you're saying, right? They ARE bots after all.

dman762000 · Post by **dman762000** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:17 pm

my question is who is going to porn sites and dragging these bots in here in the first place cause its starting to get out of hand