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« Reply #120 on: October 16, 2010, 05:49:41 PM » |
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« Reply #121 on: October 16, 2010, 06:15:32 PM » |
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they've breached the perimeter, somebody do something
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« Reply #122 on: October 16, 2010, 08:52:37 PM » |
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« Reply #123 on: October 16, 2010, 09:26:19 PM » |
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« Reply #124 on: October 16, 2010, 10:02:26 PM » |
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I'm seeing a pattern...
And what would that be lol?  Oh good lord. Latest Member: bill6maynard We are being six'd. |
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« Reply #125 on: October 17, 2010, 12:20:05 AM » |
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« Reply #126 on: October 17, 2010, 02:40:31 AM » |
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I once read a post on another site by somebody that was having problems with bots solving their CAPTCHA. They left the CAPTCHA image on the page, but told the user what to enter in the CAPTCHA box in the registration instructions... all of the bots disappeared.
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« Reply #127 on: October 17, 2010, 04:39:32 PM » |
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There are currently almost 40,000 users. This thread started almost three weeks ago. That's 5000 users more. Either TIGS is seeing some ridiculous growth, or some ridiculous spam.
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« Reply #128 on: October 17, 2010, 05:13:56 PM » |
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90 members were registered yesterday...
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« Reply #129 on: October 17, 2010, 08:56:54 PM » |
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There are currently almost 40,000 users. This thread started almost three weeks ago. That's 5000 users more. Either TIGS is seeing some ridiculous growth, or some ridiculous spam.
See, that's why I've been coming back to this thread and whining for someone to do something. Ignoring the spammers, TIGS is not a giant place. We're not a gigantic forum who needs time to do things, it should not take a long time to add one line of code to the site, and it's really, really frustrating to see nothing being done. Latest user: ilovenfl33. |
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« Reply #130 on: October 18, 2010, 12:40:45 AM » |
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Looking at the profile of the last bots that joined they don't have any signatures in there so it looks like mister Yu has solved that issue. tristan49williamdrew68pettyalexis54gutierreearle9weekskantotisimonow05They do all use hotmail or yahoo email addresses, maybe banning new members from using those email domains would stop the bots? |
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« Reply #131 on: October 18, 2010, 12:59:24 AM » |
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« Reply #132 on: October 18, 2010, 01:01:09 AM » |
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If we did blacklist Hotmail and Yahoo, wouldn't it just inconvenience legitimate new users and slightly delay the bots before they are directed differently? Surely there's someone on the spammers' side checking to make sure the bots are still getting in?
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« Reply #133 on: October 18, 2010, 06:36:59 AM » |
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72 members created yesterday. Only 4 have posted at least once....
Banning certain email domains isn't a good idea like Paint said. Something needs to be done about the 50+ new members a day.
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« Reply #134 on: October 18, 2010, 08:09:21 AM » |
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« Reply #135 on: October 18, 2010, 08:19:03 AM » |
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Almost at 40,000 members. Time to celebrate! Once mister Yu deletes all of the zero posters we'll be back celebrating the 400th member! |
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« Reply #136 on: October 18, 2010, 09:43:01 AM » |
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I feel like there's rats running through my rented apartment. Fifty new rats per day. Their one purpose is to put links in their sigs to help the spammers who hired them.
Your dwarves walk outside and are crushed by the expanding horde of elephants.
An engraving of a bot and a forum user. The bot is laughing. The forums user is crying.
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« Reply #137 on: October 18, 2010, 12:05:20 PM » |
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They often come back later and add a signature. Some post an innocuous message or two then add the spam links via their sig later. They are a devious bunch. In another forum I frequent (Ogre3d) they were having issues with actual human spammers registering and making a few on topic, but meaningless posts (usually in the "offtopic" section, since they obviously didn't know enough to blend in in the more technical sections) and later editing or using sigs etc. So the mods wound up having to ban anyone whose first post was offtopic or a "I have the same problem", etc... They stickied a warning to new users: http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=58947 |
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« Reply #138 on: October 20, 2010, 08:20:29 PM » |
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We are hitting 40k within 48 hours. PARTY TIME!!!
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« Reply #139 on: October 21, 2010, 08:59:29 AM » |
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Party go? 40004!
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