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Author Topic: What's with the huge increase of new members?  (Read 1331 times)
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« on: June 06, 2010, 11:30:47 PM »
Has TCO become subject to auto-join programs? I notice most of these users post nothing, so no harm if that's the case, or our we picking up actual members for some reason that I am blind to?
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« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2010, 11:32:14 PM »
definitely autojoiners, probably spambots. a few profiles I checked had random spam links.
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« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2010, 11:38:45 PM »
Why is this happening now if it didn't happen much before? Is there some new technology that gets around spam defenses?
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« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2010, 11:27:24 AM »
They're able to create the account, but then they can't activate the account because they don't respond to the email that's been sent to them, so they can't post.


54 accounts all awaiting activation - now purged.

Additionally - I've got awesome mods & admins, who the minute any of the spambots jump on the site and post, they're automatically facing post deletion, and banning.

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« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2010, 11:35:07 AM »
So does the occasional spanner that gets through respond to the activation e-mail? Or do they find some way to auto-activate?
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« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2010, 06:52:26 PM »
I noticed this too. One day, I saw we had 23 guests, and every single one of them was viewing the most recent post on the site. It's like the bots come in waves at times. However, I have never actually seen a spam post so everyone must be doing something right.
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« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2010, 09:04:39 PM »
There were three spam posts in the last 24 hours, I think Hurricane and Creed tag teamed them right out.
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« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2010, 09:24:03 PM »
Yeah I've knocked off 2 myself in the last few days. I'm not entirely sure why all of a sudden they're on the attack after however long without having to worry about it.
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« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2010, 10:44:38 PM »
I'm not a spambot, so u picked up at least one new member   Tongue
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« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2010, 11:39:20 PM »
It comes in waves. Which probably means there'll be a new update to the SMF software soon to deal with it.

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« Reply #10 on: June 08, 2010, 03:33:51 AM »
Quote from: JHaak on June 07, 2010, 10:44:38 PM
I'm not a spambot, so u picked up at least one new member   Tongue

same here.  I am a returning raw deal player.  Smiley
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