Trolls - spammers

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Precision
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sure looks like we have a small invasion of them recently. But, the site is up again so... mixed blessings as they say :mrgreen:
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As I get a chance I will go through and take appropriate action
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Could you delete the threads too? They're cluttering up the "active threads" quick link.
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I can, but I want to ping it off the other Mods first. I'm leery of deleting stuff given some history around here.
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How did they find us so quickly? Is it bots or something?
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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.
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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 "!"
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Weetabix wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:58 pm How did they find us so quickly? Is it bots or something?
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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.
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BobbyK wrote: ↑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 "!"
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!)
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