Birthdays
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- Demimod
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Birthdays
My complain is about the new birthdays thing in the home page . fak'em all birthdays ppl , we might miss an important one someday
We (yes,WE) want the daily birthdays back .
We (yes,WE) want the daily birthdays back .
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- Guessing Games Queen. Suck it, Nich.
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Re: Birthdays
We have to go through and delete each account individually. Sometimes we delete them all. Sometimes we leave them, and just delete the accounts that post spam. It just depends on our mood and how busy the admins are in real life.
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- recuerdame
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Re: Birthdays
Sounds to me like someone could use some assistance.
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- Official NELG Headmaster Tech Guy of Awesomeness
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Re: Birthdays
Maybe we could promote someone to administrate these things...Shay wrote:Sounds to me like someone could use some assistance.
"Deep down you may still be that same great kid you used to be. But it's not who you
are underneath, it's what you do that defines you." - Rachel Dawes, Batman Begins
"Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing
that happens to everything else." - Ororo Munroe, X-Men
are underneath, it's what you do that defines you." - Rachel Dawes, Batman Begins
"Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing
that happens to everything else." - Ororo Munroe, X-Men
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- GOD
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Re: Birthdays
I'll promote YOU! * Shakes fist *
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- Official NELG Headmaster Tech Guy of Awesomeness
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Re: Birthdays
Either promote, or dedicate one of the existing admins
"Deep down you may still be that same great kid you used to be. But it's not who you
are underneath, it's what you do that defines you." - Rachel Dawes, Batman Begins
"Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing
that happens to everything else." - Ororo Munroe, X-Men
are underneath, it's what you do that defines you." - Rachel Dawes, Batman Begins
"Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing
that happens to everything else." - Ororo Munroe, X-Men
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- GOD
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Re: Birthdays
Or.... we are doing pretty good. The boards are not overrun with spam.
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- Official NELG Headmaster Tech Guy of Awesomeness
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Re: Birthdays
The birthday's are, and that's what this topic is about, the birthdays
"Deep down you may still be that same great kid you used to be. But it's not who you
are underneath, it's what you do that defines you." - Rachel Dawes, Batman Begins
"Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing
that happens to everything else." - Ororo Munroe, X-Men
are underneath, it's what you do that defines you." - Rachel Dawes, Batman Begins
"Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing
that happens to everything else." - Ororo Munroe, X-Men
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- the two timer
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Re: Birthdays
It would be unfair to dedicate this task to someone specific and make him or her deal with all the work. As chex said, sometimes we have the time to delete all, sometimes not. No harm done. It's team work.
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- Guessing Games Queen. Suck it, Nich.
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Re: Birthdays
Yep. The accounts exist, but they aren't posting, so if we don't get to it, no harm done.
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- Game Destroyer
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Re: Birthdays
I'm going to work on deleting all the inactive accounts.
These are accounts where the member never verified their e-mail address... they are mostly spam, but either way we can't have inactive accounts that are months old. We'll give new members 1 month to verify their accounts before delete them.
I'm also going to work on deleting all members who have never posted, but this will be trickier as some have been around before e-mail activation was established. I'll look at these myself.
As for the birthday things, I think this is a new trend. A spam bot will register with his birthday on the same day to get attention in hopes people will click his name and visit his site... I don't think there is a solution to this.
These are accounts where the member never verified their e-mail address... they are mostly spam, but either way we can't have inactive accounts that are months old. We'll give new members 1 month to verify their accounts before delete them.
I'm also going to work on deleting all members who have never posted, but this will be trickier as some have been around before e-mail activation was established. I'll look at these myself.
As for the birthday things, I think this is a new trend. A spam bot will register with his birthday on the same day to get attention in hopes people will click his name and visit his site... I don't think there is a solution to this.
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- Official NELG Headmaster Tech Guy of Awesomeness
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Re: Birthdays
Woah! That's a lot of people gone!! Good Job Clarence!
"Deep down you may still be that same great kid you used to be. But it's not who you
are underneath, it's what you do that defines you." - Rachel Dawes, Batman Begins
"Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing
that happens to everything else." - Ororo Munroe, X-Men
are underneath, it's what you do that defines you." - Rachel Dawes, Batman Begins
"Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing
that happens to everything else." - Ororo Munroe, X-Men
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- Game Destroyer
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Re: Birthdays
I basically deleted everyone with 0 posts.
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- Demimod
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Re: Birthdays
Why did u do that?! u should be proud of them accounts even if they never posted, and who gives a shait about these spamers .
I was just talking about the new thing that shows all the birthdays of the members in the same month instead as it used 2b where we saw who has a birthday today ..
I was just talking about the new thing that shows all the birthdays of the members in the same month instead as it used 2b where we saw who has a birthday today ..
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Re: Birthdays
And now for phaze 2.
Delete accounts with usernames of 3 characters or less.
Delete accounts with usernames of 3 characters or less.
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- Demimod
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- Hideous Demon Spawn
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Re: Birthdays
What next? Delete all the accounts that start with the letters "Cl"
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- Demimod
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Re: Birthdays
No . Next is deleting all the funny ppl . well ..same..
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- the two timer
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Re: Birthdays
All in one month? It's still birthday today.
Lol, Clarence.
Lol, Clarence.
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- Guessing Games Queen. Suck it, Nich.
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Re: Birthdays
Yep, Ef, it's still only birthdays for that day. Unfortunately, a shazam!-ton of spammers have been signing up, and listing their birthday as that day to get more hits. The only way to get rid of that (if we can't stop them from signing up in the first place) is to have the admins delete the accounts one by one.