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almack9
09-25-2009, 09:35 PM
The entire point of this thread is to move certain other threads off the front page. I figured youd all rather see my spam then an actual spammers spam. We should insert metatags into the comments that stop search engines from linking to them. Such as isohunt.com has done. That would surely detract from the attractiveness of spamming our forums.

reich
09-26-2009, 02:00 AM
- Do you have anything that does not have any spam in it?

- Well, we have the spam double battle-axe of spam.

Epythic
09-26-2009, 02:30 PM
...that's not got much spam in it.

Epythic
09-26-2009, 04:02 PM
Now its bad: dozens (literally!) of new spam threads in the past 30 minutes. Fuck.

grobblewobble
09-26-2009, 04:25 PM
As I said before, spam is like entropy. (Or more precisely: the quantity of spam / minute is). It will always increase.

At least we haven't seen much cases yet where regular threads are bombarded with shoes and porn, because that's what I fear most. :( In another forum I regularly visit there was a moment where every normal thread got repeatedly spammed with 20 - 30 posts, utterly disrupting the functionality of the forum. Luckily they managed to get things under control again there.

EDIT: Jeesh, I just saw the mess in "ADOM RPG" category. Uhm, never mind whatever I said about things being not so bad yet. :( I guess I understand what you mean now. Whoever invented this type of spambot deserves some nice brutal medieval torture.

pblack
09-26-2009, 06:09 PM
As I said before, spam is like entropy. (Or more precisely: the quantity of spam / minute is). It will always increase.

At least we haven't seen much cases yet where regular threads are bombarded with shoes and porn, because that's what I fear most. :( In another forum I regularly visit there was a moment where every normal thread got repeatedly spammed with 20 - 30 posts, utterly disrupting the functionality of the forum. Luckily they managed to get things under control again there.

EDIT: Jeesh, I just saw the mess in "ADOM RPG" category. Uhm, never mind whatever I said about things being not so bad yet. :( I guess I understand what you mean now. Whoever invented this type of spambot deserves some nice brutal medieval torture.

what they deserve is a boiling hot cauldron of oil pured down their a-holes.

Laukku
09-26-2009, 06:15 PM
This (http://www.adom.de/forums/member.php?u=864) bot has posted hundreds of spam threads. Hundreds.:( The user already is an Ancient Member!

Our forums are being taken over by the Forces of Chaos; seems that corruption has multiplied already, before the 90th day of the invasion.

grobblewobble
09-26-2009, 06:44 PM
So far this bot is ruining the "ADOM RPG" category, but no others. If a bot like this attacks the "general discussion" category we are screwed. :(

Laukku
09-26-2009, 06:48 PM
It seems to post 2 threads per minute. There are 60*24=1440 minutes per day, so we will have 2880 new threads per 24 hours. 20160 in a week.

Epythic
09-26-2009, 09:15 PM
Checked his profile page: he's got 666 posts. Either its just coincidence or those guys have really bad humour.


It seems to post 2 threads per minute. There are 60*24=1440 minutes per day, so we will have 2880 new threads per 24 hours. 20160 in a week.

A *real* problem we only get when TB's server can't handle it anymore and TB decides to remove the forums.

But we probably just need a better captcha.

Laukku
09-26-2009, 09:25 PM
Currently, around 28% of all threads in the forum are made by the bot.:eek:

(about 700 of 2500)

grobblewobble
09-26-2009, 09:25 PM
Speaking of The Creator, is he still on honeymoon? Does anyone have an idea when he will return?

Epythic, did you write him that postcard?

gut
09-26-2009, 09:54 PM
>when TB's server can't handle it anymore and TB decides to remove the forums.

I don't think that will happen, but even if it does,
there are two other forums counting rgra.

Epythic
09-26-2009, 10:36 PM
Speaking of The Creator, is he still on honeymoon? Does anyone have an idea when he will return?

Epythic, did you write him that postcard?

Finally printed it, had some problems with the stupid picture printer (such as the stupid thing not taking .png but only .jpg; Me's a perfectionist, printing it on my home printer was not an option).

Will probably go out on monday.

Soirana
09-27-2009, 12:50 AM
there is always classical solution. Crack forum and fix things on your own. Afraid mine knowledge is not up to task.

pblack
09-27-2009, 01:52 AM
the ADOM RPG session is infested. one single bot. I guess it could be worse, dunno why it decided to flood the ADOM RPG session. At least it's not a popular part of the forum.

Laukku
09-27-2009, 02:24 PM
Now 60% of threads are made by it. The bot now has more posts than any member, even more than Gray. o_O

Grey
09-27-2009, 05:50 PM
My title is gone? *sobs*

But wait... there is a solution... all I need to do is outspam the spambots!

*starts making thousands of posts in the ADOM forum*

Epythic
09-27-2009, 05:56 PM
My title is gone? *sobs*

But wait... there is a solution... all I need to do is outspam the spambots!

*starts making thousands of posts in the ADOM forum*

Don't worry, *if* my postcard reaches its target (ie, doesnt fall apart on the way -- the local copyshop only prints postcards when you order at least 1000 of them, so I had to get creative.) its not unlikely that you'll soon be able to fight back :)

Travis Prue
09-27-2009, 07:00 PM
Never fear! I'm a wizard, I'll sa-*crushed by a rather large rock*

gut
09-28-2009, 01:19 AM
The 'ADOM RPG' thread has ~4000 posts in it now.
By comparison, the next most popular thread,
'General ADOM Discusion' has only ~1000.

pblack
09-28-2009, 01:38 AM
It has 4000 threads in it now. about 1000 posts.

General discussion has 23k posts =P (Hail TH sucks thread). I just hope it doesn't get to 23k THREADS in the Adom RPG Session.

Solitude
09-28-2009, 04:50 PM
I agree, I am a new user to these forums, but in these and I have noticed in the yahoo and google newsgroups, there is a spamfiend :[

Laukku
09-29-2009, 10:57 AM
Good news everyone: topler has STOPPED! :D

EDIT: and TB is back, too. :)

Silfir
09-29-2009, 12:29 PM
Thank Corellius. Hopefully we'll get his place cleaned up quickly :)

Travis Prue
09-29-2009, 06:05 PM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
(this spam is spam preventing spam)

Laukku
10-09-2009, 02:05 PM
not good

What is not good? That TB got rid of the spam threads?

grobblewobble
10-09-2009, 03:12 PM
Laukku, did you notice that halduswi is one of these signature advertising bots?

It did choose a frikkin hilarious remark and thread to spam with.

gut
10-09-2009, 04:53 PM
That gave me a right good chuckle, it did : )