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Atlantis
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Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:01 pm

I've noticed lately that people have used specifically the "How-To" section to post advertisements for things like dating, drugs, and porn. I find tis a disgrace to the forums. I don't know how, but their should be a small qeustion page to see if they are sincere about spudgunning when they register.
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Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:56 pm

are you talking about thta post where someone gave a link to a video of a girl giving a BJ?

edit:spelling :D
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Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:49 am

Same, when people sign up it should automaticaly bring them to the rules page and disable all links or watever for a certain time.
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Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:38 pm

i think its a member here who just made another account or someone from spudtech that has a grudge against PC GUY or a mod
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Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:47 pm

Guys, that type of behavior is typicaly done by automatic spam bots.
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Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:03 pm

its pretty common spam u know, just ignore it, we got mods on every day, sometimes hourly, to solve these things
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Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:49 pm

If it does happen, rest assured that the mods will be on it in no time.

If there's a problem, PM me, or IM me with a link to the topic whether i'm away or not and I'll be sure to get it fixed. Same goes for other mods.
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Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:21 pm

i thought that the part of the regestration process where you type in the code thats weird looking was to keep spam bots from being able to regester.
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Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:20 pm

lol yeah guys, it's spam.

However they are not bots. They are piss poor people paid in various foregin countries a quarter an hour to register for forums like mine and post stuff like that. A few of them have even posted "somewhat spud-related" posts, then turn around a post a list in off-topic about why it's good to be a man, and the periods are links to spam sites.

I don't turn on the random registration code becuase it tends to prevent AOL members from registering because AOL proxies like to cache that image even when their not supposed to. I do however have very spudfiles-specific hidden fields in the register page, so a bot can't fill it out and register automatically... they will get an error.

There isn't much I can do about it aside from delete them as soon as their found, and ban them in a few different ways. It should supress soon enough.
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Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:06 pm

haha yeah well the foregin country thing checks out considering the spelling and grammar of posts like that.
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