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Xkeeper

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Posted on 08-06-10 03:54:28 PM Link | Quote
Don't reply to obvious spam or other crap.

All it does is make me have to delete more shit.

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Posted on 08-06-10 03:55:04 PM Link | Quote
Agreed.

So who's the spammer/lamer/whatever this time?

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Posted on 08-06-10 03:55:44 PM (last edited by Orlandu at 08-06-10 12:55 PM) Link | Quote
You mean you don't want more work? Preposterous, haha.

I wanted to reply, but I'm used to a vbulletin car forum where they don't care about size and everyone reply's with "IBTL" stuff. I restrained myself.

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Posted on 08-06-10 03:55:56 PM Link | Quote
Guilty. AGAIN.

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Posted on 08-06-10 03:57:29 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Anya
Agreed.

So who's the spammer/lamer/whatever this time?

Just some random spammer, probably manually done. Doesn't seem to have been a bot, I guess.

As for other things, it's getting old. I don't want to have to delete 30 posts going "Uh oh, spam! I hope this person gets banned" because it's going to get deleted and so are your shit posts.

sigh

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Posted on 08-06-10 03:59:29 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Zero One
Guilty. AGAIN.


Try to refrain from doing it again, please. Just ignore them. They want attention, so lets not give it to them.

Plus, its more work for Xkeep, as he mentioned.

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Posted on 08-06-10 04:09:22 PM Link | Quote
I fear the day when we get attacked by spambots. I hate how most common board systems tend to get them.

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Posted on 08-06-10 07:44:01 PM Link | Quote
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I just have a button to nuke every post of the targeted spammer and then their account if need be, on my board.

But replying to spam is a bad idea, yeah. It's not like the SM64 forum, where I don't mind if you tell people where the right thread is. Spammers aren't gonna get anything out of 'OMG SPAMMAR' nor will it help the root cause go away.

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Posted on 08-06-10 10:42:43 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Terra
I fear the day when we get attacked by spambots. I hate how most common board systems tend to get them.

The difference is that most board systems outsource their anti-spam to things that get in the way and give the installer little control over their own methods, with arcane structures that prevent easily-added checks against bots, and there only needs to be 4 systems to get most forums on the internet (phpBB, Simple Machines, vBulliten, IPB)

Case in point, I just added another check.

(If you're curious, the one from earlier was manually done.)

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Posted on 08-07-10 07:30:48 AM (last edited by Drag at 08-07-10 04:31 AM) Link | Quote
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Posted on 08-07-10 11:01:33 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Xkeeper
Don't reply to obvious spam or other crap.

All it does is make me have to delete more shit.
Add to FAQ for great justice?


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Posted on 08-07-10 01:07:18 PM Link | Quote
Heh. One time there was a guy at my forums who would start a whole new topic to complain about spam topics. I asked him nicely not to do this because it defeats the purpose of mods deleting spam topics if there's now a whole new topic talking about the spam.

He completely and utterly ignored me and made a new topic when a spambot hit us again. This time, I more firmly told him to stop playing "Spam Police", or else.

Unfortunately, his own message board was deleted and archive.org doesn't have a copy, so I couldn't find the exact quote, but he made a post at his board afterwards basically saying something along the lines of, "I don't care what FO says. I'm going to continue to be Port Saiid's Spam Police whether she likes it or not."

Needless to say, he eventually got banned and that wasn't even the only reason why.
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Posted on 08-07-10 02:08:38 PM Link | Quote
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Posted on 08-07-10 02:31:26 PM Link | Quote
Me thinks FO is flying into dangerous territory of the cyborg variety...:X
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Posted on 08-07-10 03:57:53 PM Link | Quote
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Posted on 08-07-10 07:24:21 PM (last edited by Gabu at 08-07-10 04:24 PM) Link | Quote
A lot of Williams really like putting PSAs in video games.

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Posted on 08-07-10 09:12:24 PM Link | Quote
I've seen it on pinball games too, Gabu... a pinball machine at a local bowling alley sometimes says "WINNERS DON'T USE DRUGS" (in fact, it's an old Williams pinball game, IIRC)

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Posted on 08-08-10 04:02:27 AM Link | Quote
I think I remember that anti-drug stuff in Pinball Fantasies and Crystal Caves, too. Also, the registered version of Boppin' had a fancy message to not copy the game

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Posted on 08-08-10 06:15:39 AM Link | Quote
08-08-10 01:15:39 AM
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My favourite such incident was seeing a DDR game in a mall in Edmonton(?) somewhere, displaying a notice something like "NOT LEGAL FOR USE OUTSIDE JAPAN". Yeah k.

Also I love how the boards that have like 17 different bot checks, making registration involve jumping through more hoops than getting a used car loan, often generating false negatives and making you redo the entire process 11 times, inevitably are flooded with bots. (Hello, Xfce forum.) Meanwhile forums like this one that appear to have little defence and make registration easy as pie for actual humans tend to rarely see any bots. Funny how that works.

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Posted on 08-08-10 11:12:45 AM Link | Quote
phpbb boards are spam magnets.
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