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j_sum1
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When will Melgar be back?
My guess is that he has had another personal crisis (he is not immune to them) and has had to pack up his things -- including his computer.
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fusso
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Melgar is finally online again!
Melgar is finally online again!
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fusso
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Melgar down again...
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Ubya
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The spam is coming back, smarter bots or crashed anti-spam bot?
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j_sum1
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Or I've been off the board.
I will do a bit of a clean up.
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Ubya
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ehm, pls help, the forum is being flooded with spam, the antibot script is surely gone, and there aren't any moderators online right now i think.
we need to find a permanent solution and implement it as soon as possible, we can't live under hundreds of spam threads and moderators can't just
delete spam all day every day
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j_sum1
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Yeah. We got hit pretty hard overnight. The bot that posts in every forum hit us 8 times I think, and there was a bit more activity besides.
I think I have it all cleaned up. If you spot anything I have missed, send me a u2U.
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CharlieA
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Really great. New spam is being posted faster than I can delete it. Is there a macro to make reporting faster?
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j_sum1
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It has been a bit of a day for spam. I have deactivated a couple of dozen spam accounts and deleted several hundred spam posts. I put in place a new
setting on the restriction manager and it seems to have everything in check for now. Thanks to all who reported. 
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Ubya
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Here the spam posts come again
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j_sum1
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I think someone left the door open and all the vermin got inside.
I have done a bit of a sweep and will do so again in an hour.
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outer_limits
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Simple solution:
implement a feature that will require moderator's approval for the first 10 posts.
For new users it will be a bit harder at the beginning but for spambots it could be a barrier hard to pass.
It will of course make moderator job much a bit harder but you could even write a simple tool that will display entire set of posts that need to be
approved and by using checkbox you could just mark those which you want to approve and others could be deleted.
You could use this feature for accounts founded in the past when registration was fully opened, so new users won't have any restrictions (if you think
it is safe).
Personally, I would also remove all accounts older than 1 year which were not used (no posts).
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j_sum1
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Nice idea, O_L. Problem is that this is old software and such fixes are not simple.
An easier solution would be to clean up the database and remove unused accounts. That's a job for Polverone if he chooses to takle it on.
I deleted 7 spam today and around the same number yesterday. All sleeper accounts that seem to have been resurrected on a timer. I am pretty
confident that these will discontinue fairly soon. It is not a particularly popular spamming method and so it should subside.
Up until the past couple of weeks we have been basically spam free. When I consider what we have been through here I would unhesitatingly chalk this
one up as a success.
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Corrosive Joeseph
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Penetration, looks like we have a spambot of some description today -
https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=15...
/CJ
Being well adjusted to a sick society is no measure of one's mental health
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j_sum1
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Fixed.
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arkoma
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Y'all have been doing a bang up job of keeping those *uckers out by the way! Cheers!
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