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Alex
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 Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: Those * links |
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| Are they a virus or are people just delibarately doing it? |
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retrobrad
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject: Re: Those * links |
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| Alex wrote: |
| Are they a virus or are people just delibarately doing it? |
i think it might be web bot, or it could just be actual people doing it.
its getting worse each day, this past week alone i have had to delete about 60 or 70 people 
im going to have to find something to stop it, but what?
if worse comes to worse, im going to have to make it that i activate peoples accounts (so they cant post anything untill i activate it)
actually, im going to set that up now, untill i find another solution. |
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tomz/TIDE
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject: Those*links |
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Good idea Brad! Might also be worthwhile checking out their webpages as well but Im inclined to agree that its a sophisticated bot being used. 
 tomz
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retrobrad
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject: Re: Those*links |
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| tomz/TIDE wrote: |
Good idea Brad! Might also be worthwhile checking out their webpages as well but Im inclined to agree that its a sophisticated bot being used.
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alright, done!
now i get to check every username trying to sign up, this will stop those idiots! |
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***astro_boy***
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it is staring to get beyond a joke
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ozzipete
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:33 am Post subject: |
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| ***astro_boy*** wrote: |
| it is staring to get beyond a joke |
Yeah ! especially having to delete all the garbage evrytime we log on |
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***astro_boy***
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I think it is very sad when you try to get a good thing going and these idiots come along with crap like that
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retrobrad
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:11 am Post subject: |
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| I think it is very sad when you try to get a good thing going and these idiots come along with crap like that |
sorry guys, i woke up this morning with my inbox filled with emails saying accounts had been created, i set up the wrong thing!
i meant to set it up so that I activate their accounts, instead of it just emailing me that they were activated, ill try again.... |
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mixojoe
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You will have to watch it though as many bots these days actually skip the confirmation sequence and directly access the database to sign up. You have to keep the forum up to date all the time. I found a friend who is a PHP guru and he rigged the forum himself to stop spammers on mine. I had exactly the same issue as you and fought it for over a year. I found sometimes changing the names of certain forums helped. Have you noticed that basically the spammers are only attacking one single forum?
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Alex
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| Yeah I haven't' been a part of this forum for very long but those distasteful pages that get posted are pretty annoying. Those auto-post bots happen alot on myspace and facebook trying to advertise free stuff and they'll never get rid of them unfortunately. |
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tomz/TIDE
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject: Those*links |
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Yeah the same on Lemon64 they only attack the off topic posts, and lets face it what they are peddling is mostly ,pretty OFF
Maybe we should make our own bots that post Retro spam on their sites
Ah Revenge how sweet it would be 
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retrobrad
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: Re: Those*links |
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| tomz/TIDE wrote: |
Yeah the same on Lemon64 they only attack the off topic posts, and lets face it what they are peddling is mostly ,pretty OFF
Maybe we should make our own bots that post Retro spam on their sites
Ah Revenge how sweet it would be
tomz |
well ive made it so that i activate each new persons account, this means that they can still sign up, but they cant post anything - so its a step in the right direction! |
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blade002
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah all this * crap really is a huge pain in the arse!. |
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