Crush Spammy-Fake 'forum members'
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Crush Spammy-Fake 'forum members'
Not that there are any admins still out there to deal with this & not that this is any big deal, but it's annoying Sir Origen. I can tell..
There's a bunch of (likely) bot-produced fake forum members somehow signing up here....they Never post, but they've all got randomy names & locations listed, along with ICQ #'s, & of course: bizarre websites--all containing hyphens within their absurdist domain names..
Hopefully, no one will click on any of the websites since that will only encourage more spam-botty 'members' signing up here...& thus further annoying the estimable Origen. (whom we're trying to help stay focused on actually playing DW all the way thru & then reporting his journey step-by-step, blow-by-blow.
There's a bunch of (likely) bot-produced fake forum members somehow signing up here....they Never post, but they've all got randomy names & locations listed, along with ICQ #'s, & of course: bizarre websites--all containing hyphens within their absurdist domain names..
Hopefully, no one will click on any of the websites since that will only encourage more spam-botty 'members' signing up here...& thus further annoying the estimable Origen. (whom we're trying to help stay focused on actually playing DW all the way thru & then reporting his journey step-by-step, blow-by-blow.
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That musst not be (onyl) spammbots. In russia, japan and in the USA people get paid for imitating a spambot and misuse communitys. Another fact is that the newest versions of this spambots are able to read and understand this funny "visual Confirmation"/Captcha".
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Good points...just seems like mostly automated automata that's auto-signing up.. Seems the 'challenge' confirm/authentication systems need 2 B beefed up.
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Spam doesn't seem to be a big problem here, but if you want to see somewhere with a real spam problem take a gander at this site:
http://hmdt-web.net/forum/
http://hmdt-web.net/forum/
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Re: Crush Spammy-Fake 'forum members'
Recently i too have been seeing these bot-personas infecting this site. Although probably nothing will be done about it since the DW developers and webmasters are listed MIA. but yes it is annoying and they always have both a first name and last name listed as their DW forum nicname. So we've got a whole bunch of DW users listed but not nearly half as many DW users. Just more of an annoyance more than anything, but i'd say kill those evil bots.Growler wrote:Not that there are any admins still out there to deal with this & not that this is any big deal, but it's annoying Sir Origen. I can tell..
There's a bunch of (likely) bot-produced fake forum members somehow signing up here....they Never post, but they've all got randomy names & locations listed, along with ICQ #'s, & of course: bizarre websites--all containing hyphens within their absurdist domain names..
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Slam the spam.
Can the spam.
Ban.. the spam.
Can the spam.
Ban.. the spam.
No Contraries : No Progression.
Opposition is true friendship, unless one is opposed to true friendship or (try) Resisting here http://www.cafepress.com/notheresistor
Opposition is true friendship, unless one is opposed to true friendship or (try) Resisting here http://www.cafepress.com/notheresistor
I have deleted 50 or so 'spam IDs' today ... changed the default to require admin activation which should mean no postings. Working through at least 50 more ... the bots will be manually sifted for a while before we can change the scripts so they cannot log in automatically.
Decklin (The Twisted Dwarf)
Awesome.. Thanks, Decklin. We gotcher back! (her suit or nada)
No Contraries : No Progression.
Opposition is true friendship, unless one is opposed to true friendship or (try) Resisting here http://www.cafepress.com/notheresistor
Opposition is true friendship, unless one is opposed to true friendship or (try) Resisting here http://www.cafepress.com/notheresistor