Trolls - spammers
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 2:35 pm
sure looks like we have a small invasion of them recently. But, the site is up again so... mixed blessings as they say 
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Trolls - spammers
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Re: Trolls - spammers
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 3:56 pm
As I get a chance I will go through and take appropriate action
Re: Trolls - spammers
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 5:11 pm
Could you delete the threads too? They're cluttering up the "active threads" quick link.
Re: Trolls - spammers
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:15 pm
I can, but I want to ping it off the other Mods first. I'm leery of deleting stuff given some history around here.
Re: Trolls - spammers
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:58 pm
How did they find us so quickly? Is it bots or something?
Re: Trolls - spammers
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 10:08 pm
My guess is some setting or other that was making it more difficult for them to get through and post has not been re-enabled in the new installation.
Re: Trolls - spammers
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 10:17 pm
Yeah. It appears that the software upgrade to bring the board current disabled the new user registration bits. I've got it reenabled, and I'm nuking/banning the asshats. Please use the "Report this Post" button. It looks like a "!"
Re: Trolls - spammers
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:12 am
Re: Trolls - spammers
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 10:00 am
It looks like it might be necessary to just nuke all new registrations since the site move, assuming they are not still managing to register.
Re: Trolls - spammers
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:59 pm
I was tempted to take you literally and report this ^ post, but you're dealing with enough right now I thought you might not appreciate the low humor.
(And the smilies are back!)