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.
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I'm gonna miss all them spammers and bots.
This is a snakeskin jacket. And for me it's a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom.
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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.
Just cut them up like regular chickens
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i hear that 3.0 will have more powerful methods of avoiding this shit. maybe one day we'll find out.
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ok, as of right now i'm finished. we have 95 actual users, or people that have registered at least.
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We've got visual confirmation, so how is it that bots still manage to register?
TC wrote:as soon as baseball stops being homosexual, i will.
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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.
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damn, back up to almost 300. this sucks. captchas don't work.TC wrote:ok, as of right now i'm finished. we have 95 actual users, or people that have registered at least.
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All your base are belong to us.
This is a snakeskin jacket. And for me it's a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom.
Re: account pruning
10I would just like to re-iterate this, as we make a further push against bogus accounts.TC wrote: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.