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Offline Megiddo

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Agh! The spam bots swarmeth!
« on: October 19, 2010, 07:19:15 pm »
I removed probably a hundred-odd accounts tonight that were obviously accounts created with the purpose of linking to random sites. I stepped up our captcha tonight as well. Hopefully this will hold out the unclean robots!  :D

I'll try to monitor this more closely in the future...
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Re: Agh! The spam bots swarmeth!
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2010, 03:05:25 pm »
Saw blurb of a recent article that human toddlers recognize robots as sentient, even if they don't look human.
I for one do not welcome our bot nanny overlords.
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Re: Agh! The spam bots swarmeth!
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2010, 04:28:22 pm »
Based on the aforementioned factual statement statement, I have come to the conclusion that JamminR is not a toddler! Or a robot. Don't delete him Megiddo!! :P
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Re: Agh! The spam bots swarmeth!
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2010, 05:14:02 pm »
I dunno.. with 3400 posts.... I think we can only come to one conclusion here...

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Re: Agh! The spam bots swarmeth!
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2010, 06:52:52 pm »
* JamminR goes and deletes all of his hidden spam.

Wait! 3600+
* JamminR bows down to bot master Megiddo
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Re: Agh! The spam bots swarmeth!
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2010, 07:26:07 pm »
2.5k posts per day, JamminR? You should really find a new hobby! :)
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Re: Agh! The spam bots swarmeth!
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2010, 08:01:51 pm »
Awesome. I knew I could edit the number. Had no idea text could be put in. Guess I'm about to find out what happens when SMF tries to +1 text post field.

EDIT- BAH! No fun. I thought it would be "I'm a geek!!!" +1
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Re: Agh! The spam bots swarmeth!
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2010, 08:18:33 pm »
It's apparently an SMF easter egg... :)
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Re: Agh! The spam bots swarmeth!
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2010, 02:26:05 pm »
This reminds me of the recent xkcd...
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