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Re: Recent Spambot Influx - REGISTRATION CLOSED

Postby Cutpurse » Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:01 pm

Just thought I'd drop in to say that cracking down on spambots provides an excellent opportunity to get rid of centralservices once and for all.

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Re: Recent Spambot Influx - REGISTRATION CLOSED

Postby Pudabudigada » Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:04 pm

Could we have a confirmation email system? I would imagine that would be fairly tight, or maybe a question it would be hard for a computer to answer, such as 'spell [word] backwards, if anyone wanted to crack it electronically, they'd have to write a program specifically for this site, it probably wouldn't be worth it.
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Re: Recent Spambot Influx - REGISTRATION CLOSED

Postby Midnator » Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:10 pm

Hopefully this will work, right? Why do spambots even get on here? How in the world did they find a random site and why do they post on it? -_-
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Re: Recent Spambot Influx - REGISTRATION CLOSED

Postby Ploso » Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:21 pm

Midnator wrote:Hopefully this will work, right? Why do spambots even get on here? How in the world did they find a random site and why do they post on it? -_-

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Re: Recent Spambot Influx - REGISTRATION CLOSED

Postby FreezeFlame » Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:34 pm

Midnator wrote:Oh yeah! I saw Bing [bot]. I was kinda curious why i couldn't click on it's name.... it freaked me out cuz i wanted to see how many stuff its posted or if it was a spambot and what not. But how come i couldn't click on it? Weirdness lol.... :3


Those aren't anything like spambots. The [Bot]s that appear in the "Who is online" section visit the site to update our site index in search engines or whatever. Take for example a Google[Bot]. It will often browse our site and update search caches for Google search. I think Midna is an MSN bot now. And it seems Yitik has closed registration for now, so we shouldn't be seeing any spambots.

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Re: Recent Spambot Influx - REGISTRATION CLOSED

Postby Midnator » Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:36 pm

oh yes, i heard that. I thought so cuz i knew bing was a search engine, so i thought like maybe it was a bing robot or something lol XD yup i'm kinda clueless
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Re: Recent Spambot Influx - REGISTRATION CLOSED

Postby centralservices » Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:23 am

Cutpurse wrote:Just thought I'd drop in to say that cracking down on spambots provides an excellent opportunity to get rid of centralservices once and for all.


Hey. You shut your goddamn mouth. I honestly thought that I could tolerate your presence here. I thought I could be the bigger person and not spread this hatred. It would seem that I overestimated my fortitude.

You are the worst person ever. You abuse your ill-deserved rank. You take cheap shots at members and kick them when they're down. You turned any section of our forum that you've posted in into a cesspool of grief and doubt over the fate of humankind. Calling you the worst person ever was actually far too generous of me, since you surely no longer qualify as a person. You've hit the lowest standard of decency and kept descending to uncharted realms full of incomprehensible horror, and infest any person you contact with the black vapor of your malcontent and plague-ridden concepts. I'm disgusted of you on the behalf of humanity.
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Re: Recent Spambot Influx - REGISTRATION CLOSED

Postby Midnator » Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:44 am

oh my.... not again. Please don't cus, I'm just saying. I'm not supposed to so i don't want to spend my time starring at it. Plus i think its pointless what you guys are fighting about. We're all buddies here on WMB right? Am i right? Yes i am ^_^ hugs anyone?
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Re: Recent Spambot Influx - REGISTRATION CLOSED

Postby Legendboy » Sat Jan 29, 2011 3:14 am

centralservices wrote:
Cutpurse wrote:Just thought I'd drop in to say that cracking down on spambots provides an excellent opportunity to get rid of centralservices once and for all.


Hey. You shut your goddamn mouth. I honestly thought that I could tolerate your presence here. I thought I could be the bigger person and not spread this hatred. It would seem that I overestimated my fortitude.

You are the worst person ever. You abuse your ill-deserved rank. You take cheap shots at members and kick them when they're down. You turned any section of our forum that you've posted in into a cesspool of grief and doubt over the fate of humankind. Calling you the worst person ever was actually far too generous of me, since you surely no longer qualify as a person. You've hit the lowest standard of decency and kept descending to uncharted realms full of incomprehensible horror, and infest any person you contact with the black vapor of your malcontent and plague-ridden concepts. I'm disgusted of you on the behalf of humanity.


Alright, settle down you two. I know this is all fun and laughs and a never-ending war against the female admin and the Awesome Music, but keep it out. You already blown off steam in both your personal flame thread and spilled into IRC creating chaos and destruction wherever you go. Now it's time for you to cool down, have a cup of tea, be civilized, shake hands, smile, hug, and do stuff together. C'mon. Do so.





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Re: Recent Spambot Influx - REGISTRATION CLOSED

Postby Yitik » Sat Jan 29, 2011 3:59 am

You guys must think I'm stupid. Of course we have CAPTCHA - we always have, and it's updated to its latest version. I've messed with the settings. And of course we have email activation. Really now, come on.

What happens is that people are paid (very small amounts) to get these bots through security measures, a lot of the time. There's no way to stop them but to block them out completely for a while and move along.

Also, centralservices has been banned and his account deactivated. Damn Russian.
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