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ScienceSquirrel
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Location: Brittany
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Mood: Dogs are pets but cats are little furry humans with four feet and self determination! 
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Junk members
We seem to be acquiring a lot of new members lately.
But click on the member list, select registration date and then click descending and you will find yourself in a whole new world of original offers
when you view a members profile and elect to view their website. 
[Edited on 29-8-2008 by ScienceSquirrel]
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
Posts: 3186
Registered: 19-5-2002
Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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That's been happening for a very long time. Members who don't log in within two days of registration are deleted because it's probable that they are
just spammers.
PGP Key and corresponding e-mail address
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kclo4
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Do the older junk members get deleted as well? I think it would be good if people who weren't active for more then a year or so were deleted, as well
as the junk members. No point in keeping them, right? Of course, I don't know much about forum matters, so my opinion should be taken with a grain
of salt, perhaps it would be to difficult.
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Ebao-lu
Unregistered
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There are realy plenties of spammers there. Most of their either nicknames, or emails, or websites seem to contain words from some eastern-europen
language. That is probably done by one only spam robot, or realy a crazy man.
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Rhadon
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Registered: 26-5-2002
Location: Germany
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Quote: Originally posted by kclo4  | | Do the older junk members get deleted as well? I think it would be good if people who weren't active for more then a year or so were deleted, as well
as the junk members. |
I might be such an old junk member . I'm not here very often, but I'd hate to lose my account  .
[Edited on 7-4-2009 by Rhadon]
My new PGP Key (ID: 0xE029152C). Fingerprint: 6F5E 2E75 12AF 9291 DB9E 9EFF FF10 121F E029 152C
Visit the German synthesis collection www.LambdaSyn.org! |
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sparkgap
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You're definitely no junk member; methinks all the chemistry books you've scanned over the years are more than enough to guarantee your spot here.
sparky (~_~)
"What's UTFSE? I keep hearing about it, but I can't be arsed to search for the answer..."
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Elawr
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Registered: 4-6-2006
Location: Alabama
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I'm not a junk member either!
My problem I must confess is that I had gotten mixed up with that Facebook website! :-)
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woelen
Super Administrator
Posts: 8012
Registered: 20-8-2005
Location: Netherlands
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A member who has not been active for some time certainly need not be a junk member. It is post content which counts, not post frequency or last time
of posting. For me, a junk member is a member who just is trolling, posting the obvious kewl-stuff or the obvious cook-stuff and has no desire to
learn from other member's feedback. All other members I regard as good members whose accounts certainly should not be deleted!
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
Posts: 3186
Registered: 19-5-2002
Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Mood: Waiting for spring
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Terminator was a junk member who went on two crossposting sprees today. Since he didn't get the message after the first spree was halted, I deleted
all his posts and locked his account so it can't be used any more. I skimmed his post history and I don't think much was lost by completely deleting
it.
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hissingnoise
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Thanks Polverone, it was a well-earned termination.
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Globey
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Do junk members go floating by in small Chinese sail boats with needles sticking in their arms?
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Sedit
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Depends... Do you have a boat and a needle? 
Knowledge is useless to useless people...
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. The fall of Rome, the fall of Germany — the
fall of the ruling country, the people who think they can do whatever they want without anybody else's consent. I've seen this story
before."~Maynard James Keenan
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chemrox
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where the hell did Sergei Eisenstein go anyway?
"When you let the dumbasses vote you end up with populism followed by autocracy and getting back is a bitch." Plato (sort of)
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Nicodem
Super Moderator
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Surprisingly enough, some people actually have a real life and have not yet been transformed into ex-human internet boot machines.
Besides, according to Wikipedia he died in February 11, 1948, way before the internet age. Yeah, I know, Wikipedia is not always reliable...
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Phosphor-ing
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Location: Deep South, USA
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looks like top secret would like to join the ranks of our beloved junk members. same post in four different forums, so far.
[Edited on 13-4-2009 by Phosphor-ing]
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" -Ronald Reagan
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not_important
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New name, same SoS.
Kids, this is why you don't feed ferrets sugar frosted espresso beans and then let them on the Internet. Repetition over originality, as fast as
possible.
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hissingnoise
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Posts: 3940
Registered: 26-12-2002
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I just hope he doesn't sell a single copy of the shitty drivel he's peddling. . .
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chemoleo
Biochemicus Energeticus
Posts: 3005
Registered: 23-7-2003
Location: England Germany
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I've just deleted all this posts.. .I think this calls for an IP ban!
Never Stop to Begin, and Never Begin to Stop...
Tolerance is good. But not with the intolerant! (Wilhelm Busch)
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sparkgap
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Registered: 16-1-2005
Location: not where you think
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May I suggest editing his extant posts too to delete the links?
sparky (~_~)
"What's UTFSE? I keep hearing about it, but I can't be arsed to search for the answer..."
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Sauron
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Presently those posts are merely Detritused, they have not been deleted, and they still are showing in Today's Posts.
An IP ban is bit a bad idea but can be circymvented, never mind how.
Sic gorgeamus a los subjectatus nunc.
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Sauron
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The troll is back under his alias top secret. Another major round of spamming.
Sic gorgeamus a los subjectatus nunc.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
Posts: 3186
Registered: 19-5-2002
Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Mood: Waiting for spring
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This account has been blocked too. The cat-and-mouse game may continue for a while as he is using proxy servers; an IP ban will not work.
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Sedit
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What a dork. Why not post that shit over at some place where they may care to read his retarted book?
Knowledge is useless to useless people...
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. The fall of Rome, the fall of Germany — the
fall of the ruling country, the people who think they can do whatever they want without anybody else's consent. I've seen this story
before."~Maynard James Keenan
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froot
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Registered: 23-10-2003
Location: South Africa
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He strikes again. ANFO-FAE
Are you able to set user registrations to admin approval with this software? This way you can allow a say 48 hour delay before registrations are
approved, this will certainly discourage troll activity.
The downside is that it's more chores for admins, unless you can set a permission mask for an elected user to take charge of registration approvals?
If you can I would be happy to help out.
We salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who remove themselves from it.
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hissingnoise
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You'd think that the futility and counterproductiveness of his approach would have dawned on him by now!
He's shot himself in both feet right from the off. . .
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