Shadowrun
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Only been a day or so and the spambots are already moving in. :(
We got any hackers hangin' about? Can ya crash their site for us, please? I'll give you a cookie!
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Only been a day or so and the spambots are already moving in. :(
We got any hackers hangin' about? Can ya crash their site for us, please? I'll give you a cookie!
Carpet-bombing in progress. Stand by. ;)
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List a new site an all they see is a place to try to make money while things would suck if money went poof tomorrow in the long run I gotta wounder if we as a planet wouldn't be better off.
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Get'em Hellibe!!!
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Dam I was just suckered into reading my first ad bot curse you >:(
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Dam I was just suckered into reading my first ad bot curse you >:(
Surprised you didn't reply to the thread! ;D
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List a new site an all they see is a place to try to make money while things would suck if money went poof tomorrow in the long run I gotta wounder if we as a planet wouldn't be better off.
What do you mean? My daughters new job paid her with a Debit Card! Nuyen are right around the corner. :o
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I have to agree with Usda. I *rarely* have cash on me anymore. The only times I need to pay in cash are at the local Movie theater (they haven't upgraded) and at soda/vending machines. And I've started seeing vending machines from my drive from MN to PA that took debit cards.
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I have to agree with Usda. I *rarely* have cash on me anymore. The only times I need to pay in cash are at the local Movie theater (they haven't upgraded) and at soda/vending machines. And I've started seeing vending machines from my drive from MN to PA that took debit cards.
My daughter's High School vending machines took em too! Which was kinda silly to me cause Bank Cards aren't to prevalent to minors AFAIK.
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No, but you could get a pre-paid card for her. I know some schools offer a credit-type of plan to buy school lunches, maybe they should have re-fillable cards that parents can load with money for lunches/snacks for their kids... Hmm...
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No, but you could get a pre-paid card for her. I know some schools offer a credit-type of plan to buy school lunches, maybe they should have re-fillable cards that parents can load with money for lunches/snacks for their kids... Hmm...
That is a good idea. ;)
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Yes it is
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Yeah, they gave me a money card to pay me with but NO ONE ACCEPTS IT. I just like cash better. If I lose my cash I'm out just what I had on hand. Not possibly my whole bank account and identity. And trust me, I misplace things everywhere.
And don't forget the iPod vending machine in the Detroit airport. I had a good maniacal laugh at that one. It wasn't just like... headphones (which is a good idea, actually) and iTunes cards. They had iPods on there. Because buying several hundred dollar electronics out of a vending machine in a crowded airport with no extended warranty plan or anything is totally a good idea.
And I believe my college does have some sort of plan like that. I know you can get refillable student cards through my work that are essentially the same thing. Not sure how good they'd be for highschool but they work for colleges.
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RUN HIDE THE SPAM BOTS ARE HERE!!!! IIIIIIEEEEEEEE
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There only seems to be one spam bot right now, though, it seems to be more active than the others.
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Just no mods around right this second to squelch him. >:( Most of the others got stomped before they could make a second post -- I honestly think this is the first time I HAVEN'T seen at least one moderator on. Good timing on the spambot's part, I guess.
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Just no mods around right this second to squelch him. >:( Most of the others got stomped before they could make a second post -- I honestly think this is the first time I HAVEN'T seen at least one moderator on. Good timing on the spambot's part, I guess.
BY THE GODS IT HAS GAINED SENTIENCE RUN BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!!!
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Wait does that mean we may be seeing the first AI?
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Targets eliminated, awaiting further orders. ;)
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Spambots are silly. There was one on one of my RP forums one time that was just spamming word salad mostly about fish. And another was random words in Spanish. Lawlz.
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Wait does that mean we may be seeing the first AI?
Well thanks a fucking lot capitalism. We finally have the computing power to create a self-aware piece of software... and all it can think of is how to sell us penis enlargements, not that it even knows what a penis is.
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I find the irony delightful.
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All software is self-aware. It can also read your mind to crash at the single most inopportune time.
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That explains why I can never get Photoshop to do what I want...
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Photoshop crashes on you?
The only time I have problems with photoshop is with content aware ops and I exceed my memory. Which is why I switched to 64 bit Win 7 and 12GB of memory.
While I am not an expert on photoshop (runnign CS5) I might be able to help out some (fire off a PM). There are times when photoshop can be a little obtuse. ;D
Now Carrara 8 Pro...I have been running into some crash issues.
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It's not that bad. It usually only happens at work (which is a laptop that's about 5 years old) and I'm trying to run it with 2 other memory hogs open.
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Ooooh how I love CS5. My computer doesn't love it, but I love CS5. I only have problems really when I try and content aware a big area or am working on a digipaint over like... 4000px wide.
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It's not that bad. It usually only happens at work (which is a laptop that's about 5 years old) and I'm trying to run it with 2 other memory hogs open.
That would do it. :(
Content aware is really potent, but it loves GB of ram, no way around it.
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I hope the mods appreciate that I'm doing my best to never use the same text twice, when I report a spambot post. That's extra effort that most people just don't put in, with this sort of thing, but I try to brighten their day by mixing it up a little bit.
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Yeah, I always report these guys.
I'm still intrigued as to what exactly makes @#%$ enlargement "world class" though.
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I hope the mods appreciate that I'm doing my best to never use the same text twice, when I report a spambot post. That's extra effort that most people just don't put in, with this sort of thing, but I try to brighten their day by mixing it up a little bit.
Heh... I always do the opposite. I always send the message of SpamSpamSpamSpamSpamSpamSpamSpam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8huXkSaL7o#t=01m07s).
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Reminds me of this: http://log.maniacalrage.net/tagged/cscr
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The adbots are getting so weird. They don't even make sense anymore. XD
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I know, right? "Fred The Bunny Surgery"?
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Well, it is nice to skim them for word salad ideas for my schizophrenic character I suppose.
Me, Doom, and Codac got a good rip-roarin' laugh out of trying to read that free credit report one out loud. It didn't work. Especially since it was like... 3 am and I'd been awake for a good 23 hours.
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I keep missing most of these. I did turn in one for Viagra... but it was really hard. :-\
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Didn't I already send up warnings about bad puns!!! GAH!!! ;D
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Didn't I already send up warnings about bad puns!!! GAH!!! ;D
SOrry buddy I'm a PUNisher. I deliver them as often and as cheesily as I can. ;D
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You learn to just ignore him after a while. If you don't give him any attention he might ease up a bit. It's like training a poorly behaved dog.
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You haven't seen Caine's dogs. Poorly trained, and he just encourages their bad habits.
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Well the point is to train a poorly behaved animal to not be so poorly behaved. XD
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You learn to just ignore him after a while. If you don't give him any attention he might ease up a bit. It's like training a poorly behaved dog.
Just reasd this one! Hah! I've been behaving like this for decades, I'm never goina stop! ;D
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Thats it, no more treats for you.
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I hope the mods appreciate that I'm doing my best to never use the same text twice, when I report a spambot post. That's extra effort that most people just don't put in, with this sort of thing, but I try to brighten their day by mixing it up a little bit.
Heh... I always do the opposite. I always send the message of SpamSpamSpamSpamSpamSpamSpamSpam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8huXkSaL7o#t=01m07s).
Is there any way I can ask you to stop doing that? A simple 'spam' message is fine, we don't really need Youtube clips when you report something. It slows up my Blackberry when we get those.
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Oops... Sorry. Didn't realize you'd be getting them on your phone. Consider it done. :-[
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Oops... Sorry. Didn't realize you'd be getting them on your phone. Consider it done. :-[
Not a problem- many thanks! :)
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Is this topic still going?
What the hell are you guys talking about?
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Illegal high power laser diodes.
I'm gonna build me a ray gun, boy.
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Is this topic still going?
What the hell are you guys talking about?
Proof that the mods are fast.
Not as fast as me, of course. But definitely fast when it comes to slaughtering helpless ad-bots. ;)
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It's like spammers from around the world. Think we started with Mexico,Canada,Chinese and last one i saw was Russian. Mostly Pharma.
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Holy crap! The Halloweeners have declared gang war on us or something!
Seriously though. If it means no more spam bombs, I wouldn't be against an activation email on accounts or captchas...
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Holy crap! The Halloweeners have declared gang war on us or something!
Seriously though. If it means no more spam bombs, I wouldn't be against an activation email on accounts or captchas...
When I sleep, I dream. And when I dream, I dream of activation E-mails for this site.
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Well I don't dream of that... but I think it would solve some of the problem ;)
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Illegal high power laser diodes.
I'm gonna build me a ray gun, boy.
Why build when you can buy? Check this out:
http://www.amazing1.com/burning-lasers.htm#_blank (http://www.amazing1.com/burning-lasers.htm#_blank)
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Yeah, I've seen that. It's not powerful enough. Lol. To build it the strength I'd want I'd need a better diode, and that's illegal. :'(
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Hmmm... Well, here are a couple of Cracked articles with some crazy ass crap that you can legally purchase in the US.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18732_6-things-you-wont-believe-are-more-legal-than-marijuana.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_18732_6-things-you-wont-believe-are-more-legal-than-marijuana.html)
http://www.cracked.com/article_17016_7-items-you-wont-believe-are-actually-legal.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_17016_7-items-you-wont-believe-are-actually-legal.html)
Personally, I want a Lahti L-39 and a Fox Armored Car. Fun times.
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NOT. CAPTCHAS. I HATE THOSE THINGS. Activation emails are fine, but captchas are annoying as hell.
And I saw that article today, actually. XD
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Even if the captcha only comes up when you first register or change your password?
Forget it, you're right. They are the devil's work.
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in all cases, there was a background update today (last night maybe... it all blends), so we'll see if this solves any of this problem
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Even if the captcha only comes up when you first register or change your password?
Forget it, you're right. They are the devil's work.
Yes, yes they are. I'd hate to see the ritual used to summon them from the underworld. *shudders*
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there's a loooooooong thread on gaia dedicated to all the weird and unintentionally perverted captchas that come up. I used to have a couple saved before my computer crashed. Shouldn't be too hard to find. XD
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Sometimes capchas tell me... things. Dark things. Evil things... please don't make me go back there. Please...
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Do they tell you to burn things too? They keep telling me to "Cleanse the world" and " Feed the Great Beast." I think the true purpose of CAPTCHAs is to bring about the Apocalypse.
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No. They tell me what will come after the burning. When the blackness is all that is left.
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*GASP* You are the Prophet? They whisper to me of you in my nightmares.
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If I'm the Prophet, there'd better be lots and lots of hot and willing female followers. To quote a fellow scoundrel, no reward is worth all this...
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I don't know if you're getting any rewards. These are CAPTCHAs were talking about. Horrible, demon-spawn CAPTCHA.
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You're right. I probably get double the torture with constant viagra adds (and no water to swallow them, or penis to enlarge...) for helping them through the veil...
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You're probably right. They're such dicks and they whine all the time about how nobody likes them. I wonder why.
I'm seriously considering a conversion to Cthulhu worship. Maybe he'll get the stupid CATPCHAs out of my head. And at least he's buried in the damn ocean.
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Oh he'll get SOMETHING out of your head allright...
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*sigh* Just can't win, can we?
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Not in this age, no. Maybe the next. If there is one.
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If Cthulhu and the CAPTCHAs are released at the same time the ensuing war will more than guarantee that there won't be one. Should be fun to watch though.
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All right, you two need to go back on your meds, now. ;D
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The CAPTCHAs tell me not to take the meds. They say they're poison.
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No, the meds are your friends. They will make the world brighter and better for everyone.
Free thought is over-rated anyway.
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No, the meds are your friends. They will make the world brighter and better for everyone.
Until Cthulhu returns and kills us all anyway.
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JESUS HUBERTUS CHRIST, OK, ok ok! I surrender! I give up! Bying viagra now! Lots of it! Just MAKE IT STOOOOOOOOP!
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Yeah those Viagra spambots are really hard to make go away! ;D
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Yeah, their endurance is frightening ;D
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I have been a mod at a few other large forums and the thing that I found killed alot of the spam bots is using the 5 post count confirmation ability.
Its a setting in the Admin section that states that every member must confirm they are not a bot for 5 posts then it goes away. Spam bots usually just sign up, confirm, then try to make a single post. The secondary confirmation kills its ability to do make the post.
If you want you can set up as an admin and I can help out, then afterwards you can remove my mod rights.
Not to mention I am also a CDT Agent for Shadowrun, and I also help set up my Firebase's forum.
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Is it sad that I actually kinda like getting spammed by the Russian spambots because I keep stealing their names for contacts/backstory? I think it was the first one that was named Marizkha and I just LOVED the name so now she's Code's drug dealer...
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Heh... art imitates life? Marizkha selling prescription drugs is now a contact selling drugs to your character...
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I don't think that post was the one I let google translate chew through. I know I let one of them get translated... it didn't help.
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Chaotic, remind me to kiss you (cheek!) if I ever meet you. That is such a great idea!!! :D
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Yeah concidering I need help giving Code a (heavy) Russian accent when I write for him That was a killer idea! ;D :-*
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No, not really. Because it doesn't catch the misspelled words and it doesn't take grammar into consideration so it just looks like word salad.
I did, however, find a page of "rude internet Russian slang" that I intend on giving you, Dad. As well as finding a list of Russian naughty words so you can stop spamming "drek" as if your life depended on it.
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Drek=Crap thats good enough for me. FASA & CatLabs has a very intresting use of profanity. So I'll stick with the majority of it. I will however incorperate what I can from your refrences. ;)
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Here we are discussing russian translations and we have a russian spam apear. how cools that!
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It's probably why it popped up. Those web spiders do tent to focus on what they think is the active topic. Or they'll pick out a key word from a post and run with it.
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построй свою деревню онлайн игра
программа для взлома онлайн игры
поиграть онлайн игры-драки
онлайн игры для смартфона
играть в весёлую ферму играть онлайн
Someone needs to tell them that a bunch of their letters are backwards and smushed together. Maybe Russian people wouldn't talk so funny if someone informed them of that. ???
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(http://www.heavymetalpro.com/forums/images/smilies/rofl.gif)
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*GIGGLESNORT*
I actually like the look of cyrillic.
This one's not too bad translated, but good lord if you translate the whole post?!
"Build your village online game
program for hacking online games
play online games, fight
Online Games for Smartphone
play fun farm play online"
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Since it's got some inappropriate language, I'll just post the link: xkcd (http://xkcd.com/810/)
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There's a silly amount of spam now.
And I have to say, these being the "official" boards, it makes the company look more than a little unprofessional.
There seriously needs to be first-post auto-moderation or some improved way of blocking the creation of spam accounts. CAPTCHA doesn't really work anymore.
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I still say Activation email is best.
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There's a silly amount of spam now.
And I have to say, these being the "official" boards, it makes the company look more than a little unprofessional.
There seriously needs to be first-post auto-moderation or some improved way of blocking the creation of spam accounts. CAPTCHA doesn't really work anymore.
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I assure you, speaking on behalf of the moderators anyway, that we're doing the best we can to keep up with it. It's been a big problem, no doubt, and we're definitely keeping busy with it to say the least. Your patience is appreciated, of course- there's only so many of us, with so much time to spend here in addition to day jobs and other commitments- sometimes we can't get to it as soon as it's posted, but we do our best anyway.
The sad part? You should see how many we've bagged before they even post in addition to what you HAVE seen...
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I do appreciate it! Normally a spam post is gone within the hour after I report it.
But there's working hard, and there's working smart. There's got to be a way that both locks out the spammers and reduces the workload, neh?
Simple Machines has a ton of mods out for it, surely one of them might be useful?
Also, SMF 2.0 has verification questions for registration, which can be set to gaming or Shadowrun related subjects. I've seen at least one mod that adds them to SMF 1.1.7.
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I have been a mod at a few other large forums and the thing that I found killed alot of the spam bots is using the 5 post count confirmation ability.
Its a setting in the Admin section that states that every member must confirm they are not a bot for 5 posts then it goes away. Spam bots usually just sign up, confirm, then try to make a single post. The secondary confirmation kills its ability to do make the post.
I would like to second this idea.
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I'm not so sure it would work. This morning I saw a spam message and there was a response to that spam message by another spammer.
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Since it's got some inappropriate language, I'll just post the link: xkcd (http://xkcd.com/810/)
FastJack, is there any data you don't ninja? I was just about to post the link m'self! ;)
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I'm not so sure it would work. This morning I saw a spam message and there was a response to that spam message by another spammer.
:o ??? ::) :o
[Evil Hench...thing]WHHHHHAAAAT![/Evil Hench...thing]
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Since it's got some inappropriate language, I'll just post the link: xkcd (http://xkcd.com/810/)
FastJack, is there any data you don't ninja? I was just about to post the link m'self! ;)
Well, when you get to be my age, and you have the encephalon/Math SPU combo... ;D
I'm not so sure it would work. This morning I saw a spam message and there was a response to that spam message by another spammer.
:o ??? ::) :o
[Evil Hench...thing]WHHHHHAAAAT![/Evil Hench...thing]
I think what happens is if two spammers come in with the same Subject line, the second spammer's got code to reply to it instead of creating a new post.
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So Spam is having a converastion... with itself! :o OMG WOW!
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Soon the spam bots will create there own forums for spam and we won't have to deal them.
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Augh, now the spammers are actually creating full signature blocks with pictures and links and everything!
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If I was a conspiracy theorist...
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Got a new adbot advertising sex sites.
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Apparently, our core demographic is Randall from Clerks.
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Apparently, our core demographic is Randall from Clerks.
I mention Randall from Clerks and HENTAI spam shows up? There are no coincidences.
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Gucci purses for all! Totally off target there.
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Mmm... plush blankets. :P