I say lock it up. You have to be vetted by a current member in good standing to get the secret handshake and spot on the WT front porch.
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| Author: | Stinger [ 10 Oct 2008, 16:15 ] |
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I'd like to welcome a few of the new members from the last couple of days: no-i-in-threesome free-naked-men-video african-rape-statistics mature-lesbian-galleries female-ass-crack snl-bailout real-phone-sex and smartass-sayings ...hmm actually that last one might be legit and fit in around here.... But the point is this, is there NOTHING to be done about this crap and get our member list down to something reasonable and legitimet instead of say 27000 some odd members. |
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| Author: | M21 Sniper [ 10 Oct 2008, 18:00 ] |
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The forum requires admin approval for account activation, and i dont approve any accounts until i get an email from a real user asking me to do so. The sheer volume of these spam bot 'members' is overwhelming...i used to delete them daily, but there are so many nowadays, i would spend half my life doing it. |
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| Author: | Weasel_80-204 [ 10 Oct 2008, 18:09 ] |
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M21 Sniper wrote: The forum requires admin approval for account activation, and i dont approve any accounts until i get an email from a real user asking me to do so.
The sheer volume of these spam bot 'members' is overwhelming...i used to delete them daily, but there are so many nowadays, i would spend half my life doing it. What, no member purge feature? |
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| Author: | M21 Sniper [ 10 Oct 2008, 19:37 ] |
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Gotta do them all one at a time. It is a lengthy process when you have 12,000 of them...hell, it's a tedius and lenghty process just to do 10-12 per day. |
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| Author: | 30mike-mike [ 10 Oct 2008, 20:06 ] |
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I say lock it up. You have to be vetted by a current member in good standing to get the secret handshake and spot on the WT front porch.
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| Author: | Stinger [ 10 Oct 2008, 20:18 ] |
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There was no intent on my part to say you weren't doing what you could Snipe. I was mainly wondering if there wasn't someway the rest of us moderators could give you a hand or like 30MM says have them be vetted first. |
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| Author: | M21 Sniper [ 11 Oct 2008, 00:06 ] |
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The problem is anyone(or anything) can register. However, to post they need to be activated, which i handle for all new accounts. I do not activate any account unless the owner sends me an email asking why he hasn't been activated from a real email address. |
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| Author: | Skuz9c1 [ 11 Oct 2008, 00:27 ] |
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Stinger wrote: I'd like to welcome a few of the new members from the last couple of days: no-i-in-threesome free-naked-men-video african-rape-statistics mature-lesbian-galleries female-ass-crack snl-bailout real-phone-sex and smartass-sayings That comment recieves this pic:  my solution to the problem, well, technically Hank Scorpio's:  M21 Sniper wrote: I do not activate any account unless the owner sends me an email asking why he hasn't been activated from a real email address.
So what your saying is????: 
and to keep it Hog related: 
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| Author: | Weasel Keeper [ 11 Oct 2008, 04:10 ] |
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M21 Sniper wrote: The problem is anyone(or anything) can register. However, to post they need to be activated, which i handle for all new accounts.
I do not activate any account unless the owner sends me an email asking why he hasn't been activated from a real email address. Yeah, I know!  (jk!)
I admin one forum and moderate at two others (Asst Forums Manger at SimHQ.com, USAF forum moderator at Military.com, and a moderator at a Jeep forum). Is there in your software a way to have email verification? Or can you do the funky letters in a box to register? When I get bots I usually go into the control panel and ban the email address (@whatever) unless it's something like gmail, yahoo, aol, etc. A good look in the CP you might find some cool stuff to help ease the bot stuff. |
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| Author: | M21 Sniper [ 11 Oct 2008, 10:04 ] |
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i can ban the email, but it's always a different gibberish email account every time. And we get so damn many that it would gobble up too much of my or anyone else's time to delete every one that registers. We don't get paid, afterall.
But if you other mods and admins want to tackle it, feel free. ....Meanwhile i just slashed a big gash in the side of my foot on the fire extinguisher next to my desk. Thank god for 'safety equipment.' Please excuse me whilst i go bleed... |
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| Author: | Weasel_80-204 [ 12 Oct 2008, 23:42 ] |
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Weasel Keeper wrote: I admin one forum and moderate at two others (Asst Forums Manger at SimHQ.com, USAF forum moderator at Military.com, and a moderator at a Jeep forum). You're THAT Weasel Keeper? Oh Shi- Hides his AFEF status. |
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| Author: | Weasel Keeper [ 13 Oct 2008, 18:20 ] |
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Weasel_80-204 wrote: Weasel Keeper wrote: I admin one forum and moderate at two others (Asst Forums Manger at SimHQ.com, USAF forum moderator at Military.com, and a moderator at a Jeep forum). You're THAT Weasel Keeper? Oh Shi- Hides his AFEF status. LOL, yeah I guess so. Not sure who you are, but I don't wear those moderator hats in other forums like here. I'm just hanging around. ![[banana]](./images/smilies/anim_bannana.gif "Dancing Banana!")
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| Author: | Racegal8 [ 13 Oct 2008, 22:47 ] |
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Quote: ...Meanwhile i just slashed a big gash in the side of my foot on the fire extinguisher next to my desk. Thank god for 'safety equipment.'
Please excuse me whilst i go bleed... Perhaps if you were wearing shoes this wouldn't have happened. lol are you ok at least? |
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| Author: | M21 Sniper [ 15 Oct 2008, 10:31 ] |
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Yes, a few cuss words and i was all better. 
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| Author: | Weasel_80-204 [ 15 Oct 2008, 12:09 ] |
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Weasel Keeper wrote: Weasel_80-204 wrote: Weasel Keeper wrote: I admin one forum and moderate at two others (Asst Forums Manger at SimHQ.com, USAF forum moderator at Military.com, and a moderator at a Jeep forum). You're THAT Weasel Keeper? Oh Shi- Hides his AFEF status. LOL, yeah I guess so. Not sure who you are, but I don't wear those moderator hats in other forums like here. I'm just hanging around. Let's just say I was one of the Mods from AFEF that was part of the "Great Wifey Call Out". My s/n here is different from AFEF. |
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| Author: | Weasel Keeper [ 15 Oct 2008, 22:18 ] |
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No worries man, water under the bridge. 
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