BBP - 10-4-2011 at 21:21
Dear fellow forumers,
Some of you may have noticed the arrival of a new member yesterday. They may also have noticed the swift removal of this user.
This might concern you: after all I'm not one to delete users at will.
Since the user's e-mail address was invalid, deleting him was according to my forum regulations. I am fairly certain this character was posing as
another Zappa forum member; primarily since that other forum member wouldn't come here if he'd get paid for it.
I'm very sad online communities have come to this; and it's even sadder this character has now picked my forum for it.
polydigm - 10-4-2011 at 23:40
It was fairly clear to me that that guy was not Trendmonger. If Trendy came here, God forbid, he would not use a urinal as an avatar and the tone of
the guy was clearly sarcastic and really just a parody of Trendy. I have to admit that I laughed, after I realised it wasn't Trendy, mostly
from relief.
Huck_Phlem - 11-4-2011 at 05:54
Yea I was wondering about that.
BBP - 11-4-2011 at 07:55
No I'm one of Trendy's targets. Not sure how that got started and am not inclined to look it up, but the Read 'em And Sleep picture I made back in the
day may have contributed to that.
MTF - 11-4-2011 at 09:03
I'm not even sure what happened to ol' Turdmuncher. I know he became a regular at Dweezil's site, and as far as I'm concerned he can have it. They're
both so boring, I figure they deserve each other.
blah blah blah...
BBP - 11-4-2011 at 11:42
Yeah he roams the place there, calls himself Ambassador At Large. Seems they're both happy with it.
BBP - 16-4-2011 at 09:45
Deleted two fake accounts. One called himself GuybrushThreepwood, after the main character from the Monkey Island gaming series. Wonder if it's the
same loser. Went to IP banning.
BBP - 28-5-2011 at 11:28
And deleted 7 members and one spam post today. Tsk.
polydigm - 31-5-2011 at 08:39
There are at least two more scumbags lurking today.
BBP - 31-5-2011 at 10:54
Three, all removed. Since neither had a valid e-mail address, maybe I should get a need-for-registration-email attached.
BBP - 1-6-2011 at 10:46
Please Punky, don't reply to spammers! There's no need, we see them anyway if we're not asleep and chuck their butts as soon as we can.
polydigm - 1-6-2011 at 23:05
Yes, I replied to one only to say "Scumbag", then realised I shouldn't and deleted that post.
polydigm - 1-6-2011 at 23:09
Whoops, forgot to say Bonny, that I think you should require an email for registration that is only activated after you actually read it. After all,
the membership here is not huge and it doesn't change that often, so it would probably be less work to manually register people on invitation than
having to clean up after spammers who take advantage of automatic registration.
BBP - 2-6-2011 at 13:14
That's what I was thinking. Thing is, it's not a matter of changing settings. I'd probably have to find an add-on.
polydigm - 2-6-2011 at 22:41
Isn't automatic registration, or whatever it's called, something you can just turn off? Then all you have to do is have an announcement thread that
tells people who are interested in registering how to contact you.
BBP - 3-6-2011 at 09:17
Yeah I could, and it's what I used before. But what we were so happy about was, that with the new upgrade, we had CAPTCHA so we didn't need to use
that system anymore; it's quite inaccessible. I made the CAPTCHA a little bit harder, hope it helps.
BBP - 5-8-2011 at 10:15
Deleted one "member" who signed up today. He'd made one post, and although his e-mail and his web address were legitimate, his IP wasn't.
polydigm - 6-8-2011 at 08:33
Bonny! Kill logoiweb with extreme prejudice. The spammers who make like they're friendly are the worst.
BBP - 6-8-2011 at 11:03
He's gone now. I've temporarily locked the sign up until the flood dries, since it's the only weapon against him. The past three spammers I've deleted
(one today, two yesterday) all had non-existent IPs so IP banning is out of the question.
BBP - 13-8-2011 at 15:16
Re-open sign up just in case the interview I posted will attract more potential users.
BBP - 25-8-2011 at 10:56
Sign-up is closed again. A spammer came yesterday and made 3 posts.
BBP - 7-8-2013 at 12:32
To add MuffinMan, I had to re-enable sign-up. After that, I forgot to close it, and somebody signed up in the mean time. He's been chucked.