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| Topic Started: Jun 9 2008, 04:36 AM (774 Views) | |
| shadowyi | Jun 9 2008, 04:36 AM Post #1 |
[music of paradox]
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..does anyone ever silently laugh to themselves? I do. :nod: I find it funny that people skip over the official stuff, not realizing it's their key to accessing the forums. I'm extremely grateful for our anti spam measures! |
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| kissing | Jun 9 2008, 06:18 AM Post #2 |
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LOL, just for fun, I extracted STL's IP addresses (from emails) and searched them on our member database. There was match - but a "New Members" account that hasn't been fully activated, because they didn't post in the New Member's topic :rolleyes: reaston |
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| Pandaman | Jun 9 2008, 06:56 AM Post #3 |
part panda, part mudkip, all me
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It might be keeping some people from here though
 but I had no problems at all skipping through the introduction and stuff xD though I'm not exactly a computer illiterate....
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| DeepRed | Jun 9 2008, 08:58 AM Post #4 |
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Is reaston the name of the account? I'm sure there are more though, I highly doubt STL would be able to keep out of here! |
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| Pandaman | Jun 9 2008, 09:00 AM Post #5 |
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part panda, part mudkip, all me
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It's fine if they are here. I have nothing against STL, it's just kinda frustrating to see your oc on sale somewhere else for a third of the price... |
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| Myung | Jun 9 2008, 09:05 AM Post #6 |
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:ph43r: Maybe they are all spambots :ph43r: You know like me :XD: |
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| Pandaman | Jun 9 2008, 09:07 AM Post #7 |
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I'm a definite spambot xD I lurk, waiting for someone to post and then strike! |
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| DeepRed | Jun 9 2008, 09:17 AM Post #8 |
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Tee hee! Was just wondering...was looking at the memberlist...loads of people haven't even made one post yet. What happens to those memberships? Do they sit there forever, or get deleted after a certain deadline? |
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| Pandaman | Jun 9 2008, 09:21 AM Post #9 |
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I think the memberlist will look like OU's after a while if they're not deleted every once in a while... Half the members having no posts and not coming online >.< so stupid.... |
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| Myung | Jun 9 2008, 09:22 AM Post #10 |
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I think they just sit there lmao...idk really, I'd have to ask Gasspoo©iTomato I think alot of these accounts are either spambots or people who don't get that they need to post in the only thread that is visible to them. 
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| DeepRed | Jun 9 2008, 09:24 AM Post #11 |
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I know this is prolly a Dumb Q but what exactly ARE spambots? I have a general idea but no definititions! They're programs that scan email addresses and web addresses or something like that? [EDIT] also, maybe since there are already security measures when signing up, how about something like 'you must activate your account within 3 months or it will be deleted from the system'? |
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| Andy | Jun 9 2008, 11:36 AM Post #12 |
Is Narcotic
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 Use Wikipedia. :XD: Click |
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| DeepRed | Jun 9 2008, 07:23 PM Post #13 |
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OKay.
 And what of the second question?
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| shadowyi | Jun 10 2008, 07:15 PM Post #14 |
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 stupids... is my reaction. And I'm doing it right now.
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| DeepRed | Jun 10 2008, 07:19 PM Post #15 |
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eh? |
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| shadowyi | Jun 10 2008, 07:40 PM Post #16 |
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Oh haha sorry didn't mean it as a response to your question. I giggle and mentally think stupids when I see those types of people. |
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| DeepRed | Jun 10 2008, 07:53 PM Post #17 |
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Yeah....why go to all the bother of signing up and then NEVER posting? Doesn't make sense....though I think unused accounts should be deleted after 6 months or so! |
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| stevtomato | Jun 10 2008, 09:17 PM Post #18 |
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I was thinking about that too, like deleting people who hasn't got any posts XD after like 6 months or something. I think there is a filter like that... our member will go down from 1000 to 300 XD |
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| DeepRed | Jun 10 2008, 10:18 PM Post #19 |
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Yeah but it'll cut down all the mess of the members list and keep things neat and tidy! I dunno, I'm just a tidy person, who hates having mess and useless stuff about....! A bit of a minimalist! :confident: |
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| stevtomato | Jun 10 2008, 10:50 PM Post #20 |
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Ahh a minimalist eh? I write minimalist music XD lmao byt my room is uber messy and non minimalistic XD |
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| Moonsyne | Jun 10 2008, 11:49 PM Post #21 |
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I'd rather have an honest count of active members. :>_>: |
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| DeepRed | Jun 11 2008, 12:05 AM Post #22 |
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Exactly what I meant! I just couldn't phrase it right! Inactive accounts should be deleted after 6 months. |
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| speckles | Jun 11 2008, 02:14 AM Post #23 |
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Oh, yeah, so am I. I have way too much much time on my hands (apparently)..I checked the memberlist a while back. I wanted to see who had joined from OU. I noticed a bunch of woild-be spammers, about 18 at the time. There are now more. Obvious because of the dorky user names.:spam::spam:
 They should be deleted, IMO. 
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| Seresúl | Jun 11 2008, 02:25 AM Post #24 |
Has OcariDNA
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I agree, I think inactive accounts should be deleted after a period of inactivity. Six months seems like a good time frame. |
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| jojo7548 | Jun 11 2008, 02:26 AM Post #25 |
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i hate to say it but it happens on most forums im currently on one (not this one) we made a rule if you dont make 1 post after 1 week you will be deleted after your 1st post you have 1 month to make 5 posts its really simple but we had 18 members now its 9 i had to deleat most due to the fact they registered on april 1 and never posted a thing one got banned because he was posting po&& on out forum  so tired of deleting non-active members |
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| Ocarikun18 | Jun 11 2008, 02:28 AM Post #26 |
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wow...those are pretty blatant
bots,
:lol: at least they could try to be a bit more deceptive :ph43r: I second deleting them |
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| shadowyi | Jun 11 2008, 04:47 AM Post #27 |
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Me three! I'd rather be able to point to our member count and say look, 100% of that contributes to TON, rather than pointing to the member count and say um.. yeah.. 50% of the people post? ..I think? |
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| kissing | Jun 11 2008, 05:20 AM Post #28 |
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hmm very good suggestions. Well here's the administrative side to it. The reason why we (Demaul, actually :D) made the system where new members have to make the post to fully register is to keep spam bots out. And so far it has been doing a good job of it, and we haven't had to worry about the spam bots at all
:excited: They can't make posts, so they stay as "New members", unable to create spam topics in the forum.Hmm, but manually going through the entire memberlist and deleting each spam bot... sounds time consuming :cry: It could be done, and the admins will discuss about it - but in my opinion, on boards like this, spam bots will keep coming inevitably :XD: In the administating side, it's much easier to just have the 'post to validate' system and not think about them. But if it is the members who want them to be deleted, we will consider it very deeply Maybe a way to make it so that New members who take too long to make their first post can be automatically deleted. But then I worry about people who made the account, but haven't posted because they're not internet savvy, but wanna know about ocarinas...and having their accounts deleted in the time they realise would be even more confusion :wacko: But I guess some of the really obvious spam bots are easily identifiable :XD: We'll discuss this! Thanks for the suggestions!! (this is turning into a suggestion/improvements topic :lol: ) |
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| Myung | Jun 11 2008, 12:50 PM Post #29 |
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*moved* :ph43r: |
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| Pandaman | Jun 11 2008, 02:07 PM Post #30 |
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Maybe you could delete them after a month and a half or so. If people don't figure it out by then they're not going to >.< And I think the memberlist would look a lot better without all the useless people that have never even logged in, much less posted >.< |
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