account pruning

[TC]

i've spent a few hours deleting bogus accounts as well as 0-poster accounts. if you were a person (not a bot) and had a valid account that was deleted, this is your queue to participate when you re-register so we know you're real.

this will be an on-going effort until the userlist is tidy, so this announcement applies until further notice.

thanks.

[O-dot]

I'm gonna miss all them spammers and bots.

[darkness]

Seems like the spammers have decided boards are the new email. I just had the fun of denying close to 100 new registrations from the last week alone for the dldb. Ether that or there are a lot of russian brides looking for cheap perscriptions who are really into Lynch.

[TC]

i hear that 3.0 will have more powerful methods of avoiding this shit. maybe one day we'll find out.

[TC]

ok, as of right now i'm finished. we have 95 actual users, or people that have registered at least.

[Kanuck]

We've got visual confirmation, so how is it that bots still manage to register?

[TC]

visual confirmation isn't cryptic enough. there are programs out there that can read characters within images. all we can do is perhaps distort the images more, add more/other colors, etc.

[TC]

ok, as of right now i'm finished. we have 95 actual users, or people that have registered at least.

damn, back up to almost 300. this sucks. captchas don't work.

[O-dot]

All your base are belong to us.

[Draesk]

i've spent a few hours deleting bogus accounts as well as 0-poster accounts. if you were a person (not a bot) and had a valid account that was deleted, this is your queue to participate when you re-register so we know you're real.

this will be an on-going effort until the userlist is tidy, so this announcement applies until further notice.

thanks.

I would just like to re-iterate this, as we make a further push against bogus accounts.