More Spam

[Daedolon]

There seems to be a huge influx of spam "bots" coming from all directions. I'm not sure what's this current trend about, but the emails they seem to be using are not automatically generated, which is unusual for spam bots. Which is why I'm thinking a number of them must be manually created. Apparently someone has something against us... again. Few of these came from such free-to-register emails as mail.ru and aol.com.

I'm not sure if we'll need an extra pair (or two) of hands to help with the moderation. I wasn't planning it yet, but the time might come sooner than later. Either way, please report spam threads and posts as you see anything weird come up.

[Daedolon]

One more fucking bot and I'm closing down the registration.

[Daedolon]

That's it. No more new users.

[Blood of Nightmares]

That's it. No more new users.

I hope this is temporary until you come up with a different solution. Since there's no need to risk the growth of this community.

[kurt]

It's pretty sad that such destructive and pathetic fools exist. The Blood community is on life support and these mentally ill lunatics want to destroy it completely for whatever reason. It makes the thread for ideas to bring in new members rather pointless, with idiots like this in the community.

From what I understand, the same situation is also happening at the Transfusion forums. These are not automated bots but actual persons. Which leads me to believe that these are attacks against the Blood community rather then attacks against the Postmortem. Can these "bots" be somehow traced to determine whether its a single individual? Maybe people could apply directly to you for membership as a temporary solution, instead of disallowing any new users at all. Closing down the registration completely is more damaging to this community then any annoyance that may be caused by idiotic aspiring spambots. It also gives these destructive assholes the satisfaction of succeeding in their mission of destruction.

If you need a hand, I've got my napalm launcher armed.

[Daedolon]

I'm gonna take a look at fixing this problem after I get a good night's rest.

[Blood of Nightmares]

If Kurt's hypothesis is correct then it's most likely Corbin, zZardoZz, Fiend, Joe (I Live Again) are the main suspects.

[kurt]

You don't have any evidence to support those accusations BoN, so keep it to yourself. We don't need any more wars.

Have a good rest J.

[Blood of Nightmares]

I think the better solution is to have the administrator to review peoples accounts before they join.

[MoonStalkeR]

Is the Blood question still enabled in the registration

[Daedolon]

Is the Blood question still enabled in the registration

No that was gone in the software update. Plus it would not keep manual spam away. I'm gonna put up something similar back in, though.

[Daedolon]

So I just had that admin accept thing on for awhile, and they just kept coming, it's the same amount of work.

[Daedalus]

I'm gonna put up something similar back in, though.

"Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... Blood."

It is strange to think that a community so small can derive such negative attention, but we've seen in the past, time and again, that those who were previously in the Blood community (when it existed beyond these borders) were made up of some special individuals.

I can't think of a single motivating force, except perhaps jealousy, which would drive such individuals. Anyway, best not to attempt to analyse insanity.

[Panoptic Blur]

"Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... Blood."

I just realized that Leon's response (shooting Holden twice) would be perfectly reasonable if he'd asked that question instead.

[Daedolon]

Maybe we can combine that with Flying Circus?

1: Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about Blood.
2: Blood?
1: Yeah.
2: Let me tell you about Blood. *SPAM!* *SPAM!* (cue the ending of the Spam song).