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scar3crow Inside3D Staff

Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 837 Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:15 pm Post subject: Spambot Policy and other such problems |
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In the event when a spambot or anything of that ilk gets through the captcha, or similar unsavory events, you should contact myself and FrikaC about having it removed. I will say outright I have not been as active as I used to, in fact the bulk of the time I am online currently is during my work hours; I cannot speak for FrikaC as to this, but the surest way to get a response in a decent time range is to leave a message on irc with our respective accounts.
I can be contacted on irc via a private message to scar3crow or scar3worc. Though I don't have as much bandwidth as I would like for this community, I will try and check for such problems more often. When a spambot posts, please do not reply, but rather contact either, or both, of us with the URL of the thread. Thanks. _________________ ...and all around me was the chaos of battle and the reek of running blood.... and for the first time in my life I knew true happiness. |
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mh

Joined: 12 Jan 2008 Posts: 909
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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Cheers. On another forum I'm on the mods advocate replying to spambot threads so that they will always be at or near the top, and therefore more noticeable. Also prevents the mods from getting 427 PMs about the same thread. Might be an idea (although admittedly it wouldn't work for cases where a bot posts to a previously existing thread)? _________________ DirectQ Engine - New release 1.8.666a, 9th August 2010
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Dr. Shadowborg Inside3D Staff

Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 726
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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:56 am Post subject: |
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I can also delete messages and topics made by spambots, but not actually ban / remove the spambot usernames. (I dunno how to do that, or if I even can)
I'll keep an eye open for any that I see, I actually deleted out one that had posted to the "What are you working on?" thread a couple of weeks or so ago... The only reason I didn't delete the one that was there this morning was because people had already posted to it several times, and I didn't want to offend anybody by deleting their posts too.
EDIT: Nuked daryl60's posts. He is obviously a spambot, and to add insult to injury, his first post mentioned my name and a vague reference to my recent release.
SPECIAL NOTE TO ALL NEW USERS:
Please add some information to your profile page, this will help differentiate you from the spambots. Thank you.  _________________ "Roboto suggests Plasma Bazooka." |
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ceriux

Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 968 Location: Florida, USA
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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the spam bots are coming back been seeing a lot of their posts. can anyone ban them? _________________ QuakeDB - Quake ModDB Group |
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