Right, since my return I have noticed a significant increase in spam-bots joining the forum. This pisses me off because they are fucking up my efforts to keep track of the demographic.
I was thinking that, for the good of the forum, someone (read: the guys that know how this works e.g. DU, King Of Creation, etc.) could take some counter-measures against this activity.
My suggestion is this: many (90%, probably more) of the forums today have a image that displayes a random string of distorted letters and/or numbers that you have to type in a box as a part of the process of registering an account. I am quite certain that it will stop the mojarity of the bots from registering.
I just dont want to see this place turn into a complete cesspit (in the negative sense of the word). That spot is reserved for NMA.
Edit: Here are some numbers: the last 58 users that have joined this forum (in three days) are spam-bots. Look here.
Spam-bots!
Spam-bots!
Last edited by Alexander on Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.
There are no 'knowns'. There are thing we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information together, and we then say well that's basically what we see as the situation, that is really only the known knowns and the known unknowns. And each year, we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns.
That would be pointless, and well, this is not just about the demographics you know. We are trying to be a respectable forum, right? Right? ...Spazmo wrote:Wouldn't it be easier to just include the spambots in your demographics?
Think of it as an investment.
There are no 'knowns'. There are thing we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information together, and we then say well that's basically what we see as the situation, that is really only the known knowns and the known unknowns. And each year, we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns.
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