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Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:32 am
by nich
Jesus Clarence. How long did it take to make that list?

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:33 am
by Clarence
The forum made the list for me I just copied and pasted.

Please everyone help me look through the remaining members and identify any other spam accounts who don't have zero posts.

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:34 am
by Clarence
I feel like I got them all.

So yeah ... 215 legit members remain....

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:36 am
by chex
reaper wrote:Image
Gotcha. I need to be in the right mood for Family Guy. I'm more of a Groening girl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-lAKL2D-Ig

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:37 am
by nich
Damn. That's quite a drop. Well it's not like they were contributing anything.

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:37 am
by Clarence
She's the Phil of Steroids Man.

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 6:11 am
by Vincent
How about deleting accounts with only one post?

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 10:29 am
by Clarence
A lot of those accounts are legit or are friends of mine who couldn't be bothered to post more than once.

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:02 am
by Clarence
Reslinir signed up and posted some spam... I feel like I deleted this specific username before so I banned the name for future sign ups.

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:16 am
by Clarence
So after deleting all the spam accounts, out forum database size is now 163.66 MiB.

Just to reference the previous forum that couldn't be saved, on the old server it wasn't able to grow past 100 MB. By the time we moved we were at 90-something.

So the old forum was doomed no matter what. It's just a shame we couldn't transfer the posts, but it was a no go.

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:58 am
by Vincent
The old forum is doomed just because of spam. :evil:

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 7:44 pm
by nich
Actually it was doomed because we were an awesome community that refused to die.

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 7:46 pm
by Clarence
I would like to think we still are, Reaper.

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 7:47 pm
by LaLou
I just noticed something when I was looking at the members list. There are a few new members with zero posts that joined today. The thing I noticed was that all but two of them had their "own" website. There are also very few members with one post that have a website. Maybe something to look into?

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 7:50 pm
by Clarence
I'm going to have to start keeping up on deleting members that haven't posted in x amount of months and keep on it.

Not sure how to prevent member's from registering or identifying spam based off the website in their profile.

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 8:04 pm
by nich
Clarence wrote:I would like to think we still are, Reaper.
Hell yeah mother smurf! :D

Re: Spam

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 9:32 pm
by Wesley
I cried for almost a week when I was unable to save some of the gems I posted in the old forum.

Re: Spam

Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 2:14 am
by Moe
Clarence wrote:I'm thinking I should go through and delete all the users with 0 posts.

Thoughts?
does the forum require email activation? If it does, I would sweep the ones that aren't activated

edit: NVM, you already did a sweep

Re: Spam

Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 2:15 am
by Moe
Also, Remember back in the day when I would post a picture of the birthdays because like 20 of them would be spam, and then some admin would delete them? those were good days

Re: Spam

Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:09 am
by Vincent
They were just a day after my birthday!