SynthMakermatti ·
They are here to destroy our beautiful forums!! 😕 😮 😠 😝
(just wanted to express my worries)
SPAM BOTS have landed!
From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.
Disco_Steve ·
I'm worried to. I love this forum.
Acrobat ·
Disco_Steve wrote: I'm worried to. I love this forum.
space invaders - so many!
infuzion ·
Yes, it is too bad, since I quit World of Warcraft a month ago so I don't need the gold, don't own a home so I don't need a new loan, nor do I have a girlfriend (yet) so viagra would be pointless right now.
But seriously, I'm glad that the spam get deleted...I'm thinking I should ask for forum admin rights to help out.
exonerate ·
Yes I find myself deleting Spam quite often these days, the annoying thing is they hit so many threads at once it takes ages to delete them all.
I've recently been taking a preemptive approach, when I see a new member has joined I check there profile if they have a link to any world of warcraft site or similar in there signature I ban them as a "suspected spammer".
Infuzion would be great if you became a mod also, I see you often report it , so it would make sense, then you can just delete it.
Cheers 😉
Exo
oddson ·
exonerate wrote: ...the annoying thing is they hit so many threads at once it takes ages to delete them all....
I find if you go to the new posts lists and open each one (all at once) you can delete each in turn and it only takes a few seconds each.
How come you can ban users and I can't? 🙁
exonerate ·
oddson wrote: exonerate wrote: ...the annoying thing is they hit so many threads at once it takes ages to delete them all....
I find if you go to the new posts lists and open each one (all at once) you can delete each in turn and it only takes a few seconds each.
How come you can ban users and I can't? 🙁
Thanks for the tip!
Are you sure you cannot ban? for me in the moderator control panel there's a banning tab, click on that and you can ban any member and show them a reason for the banning, or do you have that but it just doesn't work?
I'm actually a moderater of all the forum sections, but I've noticed in some of them I don't have certain abilities, like I cannot make a sticky in some sections but I can in others ect.
Cheers 😉
Exo
infuzion ·
OMG, please webmaster, add some spam-blockers! I'm sure someone on the phpBB board has built one! Might as well give me mod rights so I can nuke them faster also.
Tom7777 ·
It should be made so you can't post links in threads or sigs without 5+ posts or something maybe.
matti ·
"It should be made so you can't post without 5+ posts or something maybe." 😉
aliasant ·
It seems that all these f#¤%&ing spams has a user name with numbers in it.
Maybe it is possible to simply not allow numbers in usernames?
Sorry Tom7777. Your nothing but a spambot 😉
exonerate ·
infuzion wrote: OMG, please webmaster, add some spam-blockers! I'm sure someone on the phpBB board has built one! Might as well give me mod rights so I can nuke them faster also.
If you want to be a mod, just ask malc, that what I did a while ago when I noticed we were getting spammed a lot.
While your there you may as well mention spam blockers ect...
+1 to the 5+ post before being able to add links.
Believe me the actual spamming would be worst that it is, there's many that I have banned before they've actually had chance to posted anything, like for instance the latest member "lyjw0106" is banned already.
Cheers 😉
Exo
philter5 ·
Tom7777 wrote: It should be made so you can't post links in threads or sigs without 5+ posts or something maybe.
good idea. +1 😉
philter5 ·
or perhaps include something like this?
Tom7777 ·
Maybe it is possible to simply not allow numbers in usernames?
Sorry Tom7777. Your nothing but a spambot 😉
Lol then you would have to kick alot of people im guessing, funny though i don't remember spamming.... 😉
aliasant ·
Tom7777 wrote: Maybe it is possible to simply not allow numbers in usernames?
Sorry Tom7777. Your nothing but a spambot 😉
Lol then you would have to kick alot of people im guessing, funny though i don't remember spamming.... 😉
You Just did 🙂
Well. We could simply tell all members via a mail and a post in the forum to change their name.
Personally I dont like that 5 post minimum thing. I think many users of SM would get a bit annoyed if they came here for the first time with a critical ( or not 😉 ) question and find that they have to post 5 post in a bull thred before they can post the questions they have.
Tom7777 ·
You Just did 🙂
You did also 🙂
Well. We could simply tell all members via a mail and a post in the forum to change their name.
Personally I dont like that 5 post minimum thing. I think many users of SM would get a bit annoyed if they came here for the first time with a critical ( or not 😉 ) question and find that they have to post 5 post in a bull thred before they can post the questions they have.
But it's for links only though, just means they would have to post a few time to show any, if they were posting a osm that would work if it was setup like that and they could describe the problem just fine. It's what KVR does and seems to work well. Also the forums already covered tons of newbie stuff see my sig lol just get them to search first.
Edit -
I guess if it was a major problem just restrict the no links to all but the help section and have a secondary image capture until they had made there 5+ posts.
Tom7777 ·
Seems they are invading the customers only sections now too 🙁
oddson ·
I don't have delete powers there so I can't get rid of them. 🙁
Sounds like there's a major security whole in board software.
exonerate ·
oddson wrote: I don't have delete powers there so I can't get rid of them. 🙁
Sounds like there's a major security whole in board software.
I've deleted them now, it seems though now the Beta testing section is public, log out and you will see. I think I remember Malc saying something about that a while back when betas became downloadable from the private download area.
Cheers 😉
Exo
Tom7777 ·
I just got a spam via PM 🙁
Nu Audio Science ·
Send me his user name please Dan and a copy of the PM if you have it I'll ban his ass 😉
Cheers NAS
PS the spam bots have been on fire lately on certain forum and this is one of em I have banned and deleted so many recently you would not believe but this week it seems to have calmed down (Maybe i shouldnt have typed that hahahahaha Sods law and all that hehehe)
Tom7777 ·
I can't i just deleted it as soon as i found it. The user was administrator something so it seemed like it would be the devs but then it had a link at the bottom and it looked like a dodgey url so i just removed it right away. Maybe a few other people got this also. If it happens again i will let you know NAS.
Tom7777 ·
I just got a new one and I have sent you a PM about this NAS with the username and a link to the profile they use so you can kick them.
Edit -
I know last time you didn't get one i don't think so maybe it avoids moderators when posting to people. This time you should be able to kick them hopefully.
Nu Audio Science ·
Done
Cheers NAS
Tom7777 ·
Nice 🙂
Edit -
There should be a restriction put in place that only lets a new user PM after having made 5-10+ posts. This would stop this type of spam bot possibly, you probably don't really need PM right away either as most stuff is help questions with new users i think and they could just post in the help area.
Nu Audio Science ·
Before anybody says anything i'm doing my best and yes the last two days has been horrendous
NAS
aliasant ·
LOL
Go NAS Go go
sunsynth ·
Damn NAS: what wouId we do without you?
cheers, Walter
Andrew J ·
You should see the moderator action list - he's not kidding when he says there's been a bit of activity - unbelievable! Great stuff NAS.
Nu Audio Science ·
Thanks to you aswell andrew for keeping it sane when the world turns upside down 😀
Cheers mate
NAS
Thanks to all the other mods too people All of em have been on it the last few days 😉
EDIT* Andrew check out the log for today LOL
Tzarls ·
Wow, guys.....there is really a need for some security measures here, the situation is horrible these days. I know this has been discussed before....but why not use some kind of "answer this: 2+2" when registering and posting?, or something similar to avoid this mess? I´m sure NAS would be happy if he could use the time spent chasing bots into creating some stuff in SM!!! 😉
Nu Audio Science ·
After the last few days i am inclined to agree I will email Malc and see what we can come up with 😉
The last one did 14 yes 14 posts hahahahaha Totally unreal that they think anybody would be interested in the crapola here anyway
NAS
Andrew J ·
phpBB is susceptible, old phpBB even more so! I hope we're not at risk of losing our long history of content here. Perhaps convert to VBulletin. I understand the process can be a bit messy, but rewarding.
BTW, is there a way to delete posts without having to look at them? Some of them turn the stomach a bit.
aliasant ·
Andrew J wrote: phpBB is susceptible, old phpBB even more so! I hope we're not at risk of losing our long history of content here. Perhaps convert to VBulletin. I understand the process can be a bit messy, but rewarding.
BTW, is there a way to delete posts without having to look at them? Some of them turn the stomach a bit.
This is getting way out of hand. I visit this other forum as much as this one and that has always been clean from these spammers but not anymore.
About deleting without seeing. If your an admin you could have the rights to delete all posts from a member with a single click. And the account too.
There is also this place that you guys can have a look at. http://www.stopforumspam.com/ipcheck/[contact removed]
Andrew J ·
Well I've figured out how to delete then from the moderator control panels. Only problem is that you can only do it per forum and not for all forums at once. The crafty beggars spread it far and wide so there's lots of mouse clicks required to get rid of it all.
We've been averaging 35 moderation actions a day so far this month.
exonerate ·
Andrew J wrote: Well I've figured out how to delete then from the moderator control panels. Only problem is that you can only do it per forum and not for all forums at once. The crafty beggars spread it far and wide so there's lots of mouse clicks required to get rid of it all.
We've been averaging 35 moderation actions a day so far this month.
Yes it is getting really bad.
During the registration process there is some simple math question such as what's 2 + 3 (I can't remember exactly) but this does not work because the question never changes.
The best way I think to deal with spambots is, when you create an account you must give a valid email address, which a validation link will be sent to. Your account then doesn't become active until you click that link. This requires human interaction and a valid email. I think that that will be all that is needed to deal with them. Also as an extra measure we should have not being able to post links until you have made at least 5 posts.
I hope Malc is going to do something about this soon. It's no fun coming to the forum and having to delete all this crap.
Cheers 😉
Exo
Tzarls ·
What about using those images of letters that you have to type....I think they´re called captchas? That should work too.
Disco_Steve ·
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I dont want gay sex ARRRRRRRRRRRRRR our beautiful forum is falling into the hands of the balloons industry, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I know you delete 100 a day but please delete these and if possible wipe them off the face of the earth, (or do your powers not extend that far?) ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
exonerate ·
Tzarls wrote: What about using those images of letters that you have to type....I think they´re called captchas? That should work too.
Yes we should have that as well. I think anything that can be done, should.
exonerate ·
Disco_Steve wrote: ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I dont want gay sex ARRRRRRRRRRRRRR our beautiful forum is falling into the hands of the balloons industry, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I know you delete 100 a day but please delete these and if possible wipe them off the face of the earth, (or do your powers not extend that far?) ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I tend to ban them first and then delete all the posts/threads. I don't think I can actually delete an account although I'd like to be able to, because what I tend to do is check new member profiles and then check any links to see where they point to. If the links are dodgy (ie link to wow gold sites, viagra ect..) I ban them, but the links are still there. I recently clicked on a link in a profile and the site tried installing a virus on my machine, luckily my virus software caught it, maybe someone else's wouldn't have.
By the way the member with the virus in his website link is "anatikalenok".
So without actually deleting the account, only banning it, these links are still there. You only have to go through the members list to see them all.
I think Malc ,Jorge or stephan being Administrators, would have the power to actually delete the accounts. I think for simplicity they should just delete ALL banned accounts, every account that is banned apart from one is for spamming. ( The one was for racist/obscene insults to another member).
Cheers 😉
Exo
exonerate ·
By the way disco_steve, I caught this recent wave pretty quickly because you posted in this thread.
If you or anyone else can do that in future it will alert me or one of the other mods, and I/we can come and delete them.
Cheers 😉
Exo
Freddymusic ·
These days i am here often and i see those f...g spam. when i am here i would like erese, but i can't, becouse i have not authority. if somebody can give me, i will erese gladly.
Jay ·
HeHe i came in to post a report and saw theun already had and was about to leave again until i read his comment on the forums big brother tactics! soi tried it out 😈
it wont let you type pron but it will let you type all other singular, or combinations of, rude words! bizzare! 😉
anyways just an abservation that amused me!
we need to stop these bots! do we have some form of Captcha on the regestration page? i know some bots are able to beat Captcha`s but not all and the Captchas are getting better and better as they do!
regards ark
Jay ·
and also this [old link] only one post so far!
Tom7777 ·
This is so annoying.... also they get the the (customers only) areas now 🙁
Jay ·
Some things that may help you Mods but you need Outsim to act with you ie give one of you enough priviliges to administor the forum at base\engine level
quite a simple remedy that help block a lot of these things is email checking/verification before forum registration is awarded! works on most bots exept XRumer! i dont think theres much he cant bypass! man id love to look at his script
it would help to know what we are being attacked by! there are bot scanners available!
like i said in earlier post some form of image Captcha not a txt one! Bots With OCR! theres a few now
speed of registration to the forum! most bots fill the relevant info to register and complete the process way faster than us mere mortals can. simple scripts can monitor for this and trigger an access denia!
invisible trap kicks- a text input on the reg page that is set to hidden and if filled triggers a kick and account deletion
theres tons of bots here already so add a forum bot set to kick other bots other than privilaged good bots
Total ban all numberstrings in user names and deny them access, in conjunction with banning numberstring named users from posting links helps (any existing legit users with N.O names would have to be told to change their user name) Theres mods a plenty for phpbb out there since as Andrew pointed out earlier in this topic phpbb is somewhat succeptable to spam attaks! VBulletin is far superior now!
the forum is held in a folder called forum! get it changed and its Hierarchy to something unique! most bots of this kind are set with tags to look for folders and pages called Forum^^,Board,community,posts,postings^^ ect and many will pass by if its not found
lots of spambots are sent out on a mission to follow good bots like (ahem) The many types of Googlebots ect and where security is a wee bit lapse they get right in there!
you prolly notice a few of these things start of with maybe one or two posts whilst others just go for a full on spamathon thats to get past the so many posts allowed rule that was suggested further back in this thread! thats not to say that it should not be implimented
its simple to say there is no sure fire remedy but we can go a long way to stopping most and making it difficult for the more advanced of them and bots do get fed up and leave! once they find it hard or impossible to get in a few times they then start to loose interest and all the time they are sharing that loosing of interest with other bots in the swarm and the waves start to get smaller. its also been shown that totaly unrelated bots and swarms are shareing info which as well as being bad could be benifical in terms of discouraging their visits
and these are just the bots we see! think of the hidden ones the watchers and harvesters,document parsers ect all crawling undetected,reading,reporting to whoeverforwhatever reason
i have made tons of bots in my time,all sorts of bots (never a bad one!)and its a subject that interests me greatlly and ive battled a great load too so thats some of my suggestions
but IMHO i think one of you Mods should have the privs to do whats needed,all of you have proven that you work for the benifit of Synthmaker and Outsim and we the community so i reckon that one or two of you senior Users(not age)should be afforded this!
What you are allowed to do atm is thin measures,a little like throwing sticks at the Borg!although a great job you all do with whats available!
regards ark
MegaHurtz ·
This is really bad.
oddson ·
MegaHurtz wrote: This is really bad.
I know... what makes them think that a bunch of nerdy guys talking about their favourite software VST authoring tool would want to see pictures of naked women? 😉
I've emailed M&J asking for greater mod powers... it won't stop it but at least I'll be able to get rid of them more thoroughly and effectively.
aliasant ·
oddson wrote: MegaHurtz wrote: This is really bad.
I know... what makes them think that a bunch of nerdy guys talking about their favourite software VST authoring tool would want to see pictures of naked women? 😉
I've emailed M&J asking for greater mod powers... it won't stop it but at least I'll be able to get rid of them more thoroughly and effectively.
Lol
I always thought they put the spam in so that the searchengines will pick it up and thus place their shitty pornstuff high on search lists.
MegaHurtz ·
eew 😀
AngularMomentum ·
I just saw a greek or russian link posted on the graphics forum, with my kid in sight of all them hardcore pron pictures...not funny at all.
Nu Audio Science ·
All i can suggest at the moment is for people to not surf here until Malc updates the forum Sorry about that but we really are going full on trying to get rid of these as fast as possible
NAS
AngularMomentum ·
That is a bit drastic, but I have my trigger finger on the back button just in case this happens again.
Tom7777 ·
The forum needs to put in some sort of scripts that blocks links and images until a user has a decent amount of posts.
philter5 ·
Tom7777 wrote: The forum needs to put in some sort of scripts that blocks links and images until a user has a decent amount of posts.
definitely 😠
theun ·
I know that some mods have spent a lot of time cleaning up everything each day, again and again. Though there is a point where it really becomes irritating.
Many have complained already, some have done suggestions for improvement, sofar nothing seems to have been done to prevent that these spammers create an account here. On average 40 or more accounts seem to be created each day now, which would be nice if these were buyers! Here are the latest three of today:
It's really only a matter of time before they will become active.
I have understood that the mods currently don't even have the power to delete these accounts. That's a shame! Maybe Malc went to Ibiza again after the 6th beta release? 😉
Andrew J ·
Actually, some of the mods do have banning powers and are using them. Hopefully the others will get it soon.
oddson ·
I have the power! MWAH-HAH-HA-HA!
Don't piss me off or I will delete you from the fabric of space-time!...
Nu Audio Science ·
I've probably banned 100 users in the last week or so hehehe Pretty bad
NAS
electrogear ·
I wouldn't normally do this but I've just banned about 20 members with balloons/viagra links in their profiles. Think it's necessary given the recent activity. Hopefully the devs can come up with a more manageable solution...
rl ·
thanks for all your efforts, so I can usually browse the forum not being distracted by them suckerZ
bootsy ·
yes, much thanks for your efforts!
Nu Audio Science ·
The huge issue for me at the minute is that once i have deleted a whole bunch of spamming messages i simply can't be bothered to read any other posts any more Then i come back half hour later to read the new posts and wham more pr0n crap So currently i am stuck in big cycle
NAS
electrogear ·
I think the best method NAS is to pre-empt. That will mean going through the accounts on a daily basis - list them by newest first and any users with links in their profile to gambling, p0rn, WOW, medication - just ban them before they get chance to post. It seems like the accounts are created and are inactive for a few days. What I do is copy & paste them into a .txt file then when you've found everyone you want to ban you can do a group banning. You probably know all that already, but, just in case. I've done another 10 or so today.
Cheers,
Mike
exonerate ·
electrogear wrote: I think the best method NAS is to pre-empt. That will mean going through the accounts on a daily basis - list them by newest first and any users with links in their profile to gambling, p0rn, WOW, medication - just ban them before they get chance to post. It seems like the accounts are created and are inactive for a few days. What I do is copy & paste them into a .txt file then when you've found everyone you want to ban you can do a group banning. You probably know all that already, but, just in case. I've done another 10 or so today.
Cheers,
Mike
Yes this is a good way forward for now, although many of the recent p0rn spammers have no links in there profiles, so many will still get through.
electrogear ·
Urgh, yes I noticed a lot of inactive profiles without links, what a pain.
Nu Audio Science ·
Yeah i have to be honest at this point it is simply a case of Malc has to update the forum I think everything else is a stop gap that we shouldn't be relying on at this point
NAS
philter5 ·
after reporting some sex spam posts again i noticed they often use words like anal or sex in their post subjects. can´t we just forbid theese and some other words to be written in a subject? i am really not sure if this will make them leave this forum but i think it maybe a good start
Nu Audio Science ·
I've emailed Malc and hope to have something sorted soon Bare with us here for a while 😉
Cheers NAS
philter5 ·
Nu Audio Science wrote: I've emailed Malc and hope to have something sorted soon Bare with us here for a while 😉
Cheers NAS
sounds good.thx 😉
Eska ·
Does someone have the pic of the shaved brunette? I could not save as my girl came in just then.
electrogear ·
Eska wrote: Does someone have the pic of the shaved brunette? I could not save as my girl came in just then.
Hehehe, same here, my mrs saw it and thought I was browsing for p0rn! Not sure if she believed the excuse about spamming but never mind, I'm sure she'll find my stash sooner or later anyway 😀
Jay ·
heres another guys!
[old link]
malc ·
I have it set up so it doesn't matter whether you use upper or lower case.
exonerate ·
malc wrote: Good call. I've added that to the registration page now.
Seems to be working! We've had no new registrations from spam bots so far. Touch wood. 😉
exonerate ·
I still think one or two other things should be done. Like disabling posting links until 5 posts made.
Also it could be made so that you have to verify your account, when someone signs up send a confirmation link to there email address which they have to click for the account to be activated. This requires a valid email address and human interaction.
Cheers 😉
Exo
malc ·
I'm not sure that the 5 post thing is a standard option in phpbb. Maybe there is a MOD for this?
The email verification is already in there so they must be getting round it somehow 😕
exonerate ·
malc wrote: I'm not sure that the 5 post thing is a standard option in phpbb. Maybe there is a MOD for this?
The email verification is already in there so they must be getting round it somehow 😕
Really, I never remember having to verify my account, although it was a long time ago now. Mind you that was on the old forum so maybe that one didn't have it?
I'm sure there would be a mod for the 5 posts thing.....I found THIS, will block the posting of links. Not exactly what were after though.
Cheers 😉
Exo
exonerate ·
Could you implement This one as well malc? it removes all banned users from the member list.
I'm looking though mods at the moment so I'll post some links to any I think will be useful.
Cheers 😉
Exo
exonerate ·
Minimum Posts Before PM and Email Allowed getting closer. 😉
Only Active Members Can Post URLs GOT IT!! That's the one you want Malc for 5 posts until posting links ect.
Cheers 😉
Exo
Tom7777 ·
malc wrote: I'm not sure that the 5 post thing is a standard option in phpbb. Maybe there is a MOD for this?
The email verification is already in there so they must be getting round it somehow 😕
They will always get around it but you can slow/filter them down a lot. Bots will be made by people and im guessing a real person will register on a load of sites and add the method/passwords to some database and then from that point on the bots will just do that also.
Best thing would be to just stop all links for 10 posts with some sort of time delay so they can't just post 50 links and go and have the links replaced by a message like 'new users can't post links yet' etc. With those then if they did spam users can't click the dodgey links and the mods can see the message and know it's spam to delete.
AngularMomentum ·
New users today....ZERO!!! First time I think the credo should be, the less souls the better! 🙂
oddson ·
So it looks like the modification is keeping out the 40-50 new users per day the bots were registering but there are still a lot of sleepers in the user lists... but I notice they tend to use the birthday feature and advertise their presence. So moderators should keep an eye out for users not yet banned who show in the birthday notices at about two weeks from registration and whose profiles look like all those others (Cyrillic letters, lame-ass occupation and interest fields that have nothing to do with electronic music etc.)
AngularMomentum ·
This is not spam, but....I became 39 years old today... 🙁
stw ·
AngularMomentum wrote: This is not spam, but....I became 39 years old today... 🙁
Hey why so sad? Next years birthday will bring you down... 😈 😈 Today is...
AngularMomentum ·
Heheh, it is that damn KickLab....should have been released today...more bugs to iron out. 🙂
Thank you for your message! 🙂
bootsy ·
happy birthday! And thanks for all your contributions here!
peace bootsy
AngularMomentum ·
You are welcome Bootsy, and thanks! 🙂
DigitalWhiteByte ·
AngularMomentum wrote: This is not spam, but....I became 39 years old today... 🙁
Buon Compleanno!!!
philter5 ·
AngularMomentum wrote: This is not spam, but....I became 39 years old today... 🙁
happy birthday old man hehe !!! 😉
phil
oddson ·
Is it really his birthday? Is he really some kind of super helpful, super talented developer and GUI designer or is he a really clever 'bot that has been building up trust here for years just to lull us into a false sense of security before going on a rampage of posting wooden-shoe and dyke on dike p0rn?
Well... on the off chance you really are the nice 39-year-old dutch guy I'll say Happy Birthday... 🙂
aliasant ·
AM. YOU'R SO OOOOOLD I cant believe it.
oddson ·
aliasant don't shout... you'll wake old-man Rudolph.
aliasant ·
Ooops. sorry. Its just that compared to AM im a child and children do tend to scream...... And about super talanted bot..... hmmm.... . might just be......
Nu Audio Science ·
Jebus he's older than me
NAS
AngularMomentum ·
Hahah, thanks for the replies gentlemen! I assure you I ain't no bot...sometimes on autopilot but surely not a bot!
😍
Tom7777 ·
Looks like one got through already, i expect more will follow.... 🙁
tektoog ·
Well, I was talking about birthday in this thread [old link] But I was talking about mine...not yours....If I had only known... I would have been the one offering you something... not the opposite...Anyway... Enjoy your last starting by the 3 digit year... then when it'll start by the 4, it'll be a whole new story !!! Happy birthday AM !!! PS: I am following you in this path by only a few years late... Take care.
Peace !!!!
TekTooG
Andrew J ·
Tom7777 wrote: Looks like one got through already, i expect more will follow.... 🙁
No, they joined before the lock down and they're gone now.
exonerate ·
Andrew J wrote: Tom7777 wrote: Looks like one got through already, i expect more will follow.... 🙁
No, they joined before the lock down and they're gone now.
Yes I suspect there will still be many more that will crop up as well. The bots have harvested hundreds of profiles.
I linked to a phpbb mod in an earlier post that will remove all banned members from the member list. I think this should be implemented and then we moderators can go through the remaining profiles and ban an suspicious ones still there.
Cheers 😉
Exo
exonerate ·
exonerate wrote: Could you implement This one as well malc? it removes all banned users from the member list.
I'm looking though mods at the moment so I'll post some links to any I think will be useful.
Cheers 😉
Exo
This is the mod I mean, Can you please implement that Malc? All these profiles are constantly showing up in the congratulations birthday bit at the bottom. So unsuspecting members may click on there profile and then there website links. One I clicked on a while back tried installing a virus on my computer luckily my antivirus caught it.
So they really need all removing.
Cheers 😉
Exo
Nu Audio Science ·
This has gotten horrendous again and to be fully honest i am fed up spending so much time now sorting this out I asked Malc to make me an admin so i could sort out captures and anything else that could be done He doesn't think that will help so my only last idea now is for us to just create our own forum elsewhere with a more secure setup I know that sounds extreme but i don't think the Outsim guys have the time to sort this out otherwise it would have been done by now because it is a complete joke So i propose setting up our own forum and just linking back to this one as archives or some such Obviously the bugs and ideas sections would stay here but i think the rest can happily be moved to a more secure location
Maybe this sounds kranky but consider that between me and oddson we have deleted something like 40 threads last night alone That is just way too much it really is I will have another word with Malc but if he is too busy again to sort it out it's time for a new forum
NAS
stw ·
I don't think setting up a new forum is a good solution. Though i fully understand that you're totally disgusted! If the bots are'nt killed in this forum it won't be useful even as an archieve because it would be totally messed up. As far as i can see the actual SPAM postings are from older registrastions. It seems as if the new reg method at least prevents new bots from landing here. That means on the other side we're half way through and as soon as old bot regs are killed the forum would be clean! So maybe it'd be a better idea to focus on erasing the old inactive registrations. I think that's what exo tries to achieve with the mentioned forum mod. Just an idea: Maybe malc can install some temporary mods which can help doing this. I'd help and i guess many others (some forum admin experience assumed) would like to help too.
Andrew J ·
Another 2 bans and 26 topics deleted...
Nu Audio Science ·
Actually stw a lot of the spam is day old accounts 😉
Also i am afraid that Malc doesn't want to give admin powers so the moderators as we are an not delete accounts I am awaiting a reply from Malc at the minute because this needs sorting one way or another i mean just look at AJs post above It's totally out of order
NAS
AngularMomentum ·
Fudge...that chinese spammer should be shot on sight... 😈
AngularMomentum ·
Thanks NAS... 🙂
malc ·
Seems the blighters got through the registration changes I made last week - just great. I have to apologise to you all, I had no idea just how bad things had got.
Time for more extreme measures. I think the only sure fire way to sort this is to filter the registrations manually. This would mean that we would have to approve each registration manually however which could be alot of work for us.
There may be a way of doing something similar to this that would allow our exceptional band of moderators to get involved in the approval process.
For example, by default there could be no posting or PM permissions until you request them. Mods and admins could then do the approval on request.
Requests could be via email or by posting to one single thread in a single forum for which you do have initial posting rights. That way any spam is caught in one place and easier to deal with.
This may have already been suggested so apologies as I haven't read every post in this thread.
Any thoughts?
AngularMomentum ·
Didn't the latest spam come from accounts that where already registered before the mod? I see now only 1 or 2 people sign up each day?
oddson ·
malc wrote: ... Time for more extreme measures...
I think Thomas is right... the problem is the hundreds of old profiles of sleepers.
Exo posted above about a mod to remove banned users from the list. That would, as he said, allow the mods to look for likely spam sleepers from the remainder of the tail-end of the user list.
Perhaps deleteing all banned users and then banning all lurkers with a message "Please contact the administrator to reinstate your user profile" would give us the result we looking for.
exonerate ·
oddson wrote: malc wrote: ... Time for more extreme measures...
I think Thomas is right... the problem is the hundreds of old profiles of sleepers.
Exo posted above about a mod to remove banned users from the list. That would, as he said, allow the mods to look for likely spam sleepers from the remainder of the tail-end of the user list.
Perhaps deleted all banned users and then banning all lurkers with a message "Please contact the administrator to reinstate your user profile" would give us the result we looking for.
Yep, no new spam bots have got through since the extra measures were put in place the last spam bot was "natalyportans".
We've only had 5 new members so far, and out of them only one is slightly suspicious simply because of numbers in the name. (But many people do this Tom7777 for example).
So they are not getting through, the flood gates have been closed. Now we need to clean up the remaining mess.
Cheers 😉
Exo
Tom7777 ·
exonerate wrote: We've only had 5 new members so far, and out of them only one is slightly suspicious simply because of numbers in the name. (But many people do this Tom7777 for example).
They are all lucky 7's 😉
malc ·
Tom7777 wrote: They are all lucky 7's 😉
😀
In that case I'm changing my username to malc7777777777777777, I could do with some luck!
exonerate wrote: Yep, no new spam bots have got through since the extra measures were put in place
Phew, that's good to know. So I'll leave registration as it is for now then and suspend the lurkers. By lurkers are we talking about the ones with zero posts?
infuzion ·
malc wrote: Phew, that's good to know. So I'll leave registration as it is for now then and suspend the lurkers. By lurkers are we talking about the ones with zero posts?
Or maybe restrict lurkers to read-only?
aliasant ·
infuzion wrote: malc wrote: Phew, that's good to know. So I'll leave registration as it is for now then and suspend the lurkers. By lurkers are we talking about the ones with zero posts?
Or maybe restrict lurkers to read-only?
That is common in forums. New members cant post until they make a first post in a "presentation" thread or similar. They should have to use their whit to find the correct thread to post it in. Could be anything from a Hi to a life story.
sunsynth ·
Yeah... good idea ali...
...and they hopefully don't exists on the New posts list!
oddson ·
Malc... I don't see the need (yet) for restrictions on new members. Just on those who registered prior to the addition of the skull-testing question.
Delete all those who are banned and then ban all those who were registered prior to July 12 that have no posts with the message: "You're profile was disabled as part of an effort to limit spam on this board. Contact the administrator to restore your posting privilages."
Nu Audio Science ·
Yeah my fault i thought a few new registrations had got through and told Malc Sorry about that Malc
NAS
oddson ·
Here's a list of suspects - they signed up since March 19 and have no posts and were not already banned. 443 users in all. There's a similar number already in the banned list...
3rdeyefotos AABrerbJercob AAJersey AallelveDutt Aancethyrhycle AARealtor Aaronvm acelpdelo ADininuseked adoplated afccrkn AFluodoEnuff ajyqk alcodoKic aliemnKal Aliko Malinnis Alikos Malinniski Alikossa Modleskiaa AlinaGurova ALLArenceesora ALLJeveabsetbalf All-Nude allogmago aluckyarrax Amarikans Psihhlos ANAJersey andrew legend Anna brausik Anna kroshunicka AnnaDrymn antiptemsorn Apostruff Apperskneendy ApperyKer Arinochka arons ArreveTycle artitiorn Artrilonkis ASintesssedO AskaOlssen Assokyaresk Astersans Psihhlosas asxrfw AtroroDrop AVELINO AWheemoAccerne Azeptbypesence AZersDiose balisakisadd balisakisakk basamba-com Batssaumupe Beatedsibia berlonw BestFreeRingtoner beyette bigpap bittimentuato bizaro Bleameval blindelf bobycharlston Boiffemywamma BorisExpress Bornejaxnerma bowyers2001 BritneyLohhans Bruinaivindib brusloon bumbasan CADilkseangisse Caxbeibesaist centurion999 cezcurdia CFeeplealish chaplin chelentanoxl choormgah Chriddof chrisbird cjkpoij cjptj Cleatoeli Cloutty cltor cobra Colin Grassie CompuDJ CoolBoySuborg crstykas CSuicOccarcore cuthLouff cyrus5 dagsRearpeddy DaveClark dazdrepermaaa DDdetaacada Decay deepinit DESDUHINJURNE Diggler dinmj DjMill1974 djmukha doobiophy Dr. Hairs dr_clark Draimbmah Droxabrasse DVDtelikmah DVDtelikman DVDtelikmj DVDtelikmt Dydaydyessy Easy Forex ecalibaba315 edfirb EEApesgresk efgh607 efgh773 EltonBay ElusiaMus EmaniaAmict Emawayvom EncaxLauncMak Enduthdon eniki enjoyponywozy Epifypopfum epusetuohomeg Erarsetatly escanar68 EtafClouttYdatO Ethelmcycle ETKSeekMudge EvareAppela ExceeldBrerry ExhateetaSala exspymannn fabYLiatt Faina FanReplicaWatches fawufeyw FCinvithtuh Fe-eltfein FirstPilotPlane FixCapallepay flewseice fofolyna FreeDatingWebcam FreeWebcamGirlsVib freklinotka Fresteglate Froderly g.sus787 Gabriboy gaigidiptoppy gedacoesott georgeWoope GOTnealyclaxible gracieb guece HANQuominnonna HelenS HetaloftZosse HIBreermvole Hohutoksev houbal Hurberannarse ideaniaws ideossirm IDJigor ilove9ico ilovemusickk20 immossila impaixripmers IncaxiaBunc incingeralene InetMarketolog inilleway inorganicinc intabarne integroomskru interdvvsa Intisdise IronShwartz Irrirmrag Iruruo1695l ISDarrell IsodeAdvevy Itargewet I-van Jackson119 JAddiltEmult jailson JamieElectra JardGriford Jaro-Ma JataUnemn Jegodredstods jenteelog JessicaLewis jimihendrix jklm111 JLoes joda John-wann JRD kabo kambasana karaidon kerond kissmealli klikersoo Kneenoduewomo kneerbtrefs kps kurkoEbNow Kyrkalim LAleman LannyZE LaTravelGirl LeilaOlssen limitedproductions lindavildij Lingred LipNeeddy liteon loatuiburcirl lofi365 LOSEmatiniaBem Lovekraft Loyalaavoibra LSDeef MadammBiBi maddmaxx1981 mafDeebyses MagicOPromotion Malevol3nt MammaBreik MAMoore marketgammaua Marywell MatthewG mautoz mawr maxtune mcilhany Medsdreadly MerellOlssen MERLieryilky Mesyjeque metrochick miha_tatu milkshoes mircxemru mister brauunsi MLfevekedyNeaky mmmm5311 Modern Day Psalmist moummaweire MPUnsetewease mqeqba mrdik-rmom mroct MrSalfmadener MrSleeska MTwhimmiveBek mumenquiz muzark nanaki420 naomimckinnye natalya:) NCotCaupepseuM nealpandy nelli neorseGog ness05 newwormseo nickp405 NigoIntendete nigreeImpense Nisamaigmatam NourleformNal NQQuoroAmouch numetal_2008 offelepunteer OhyncWheeshy OKAbereduem OLaffovovelaymn OldDruggist OLOrbiderMuri olunarc omilisymn Onemone OntotheSogtef Orekattarly OSoopfellRok oti ovepleadardow OVietsritgem pandawill511 PatriotWS paxageartinee Pereezd PETER petsin petune Phildirrick PlarseDes plexidealtsax PoeltinileLep pojkdfsc pooplefoelp PseulaPlodo psychedelix PSYDELISH pvkspbrudfffgedd PWedurmoupe Qwadromen Radist Statik RafeDifeleath RagsgextTerse Ralowereks Redubcollecy Redux Roby72 RonIN RTSnivySyncHilt RumerTest s_beto sandranills sansochiii sanycrorryBal Sashaulica Saurnolassels Seittyfembeby SelectTwo SemoSteanny SenueMuhSoync seoforgeru Seval shdfjq Sheeg shoffdafRaw shumknatasn Simmineepreoky sirliciostrage Sitoo1478 SJanddiefe Skassilseteta Skevos Mavros Smeldguesse Snimitietly SoCJersey SoCNew SoCPlain soypesuff Spaddypig sphaira Spiralizer splitpen SportiotBor SSbapepourb SSliailtHyday SSPraxreple steelcoponele Stoobebow StrawBerryLUX streksru STUPIDRAIN stuv361 StypeGyncPype sudio SweetestDazy Synther Dan Tageingerce TakoTakoBurito Talannewayjex Tanyaiskra taumshasP teequeovedo Teerience teknofil teleport TenerIKKiel TerB TicketmanGeorge tIneteexign tobeads Toni88 Tothuncoons trab triarryspousy trollareulK trommetty Twereehet Tyncimpanny Uflatamer UKNithpristehen un1que1 UncleGeitsjunior Unfifytet unionecillory unlocubbedo updastusa UrirtyBor Vabartimb Valhalor VanDerrColobok Vasinett Vatametbard vavovu VeraTomsk vesittivinuix vhgmu VikiRodi vinxz vitalikgamer vwxy659 warezniumenss WatchLivePornWebcams watsonr21 WeenWelanulgE wemasafs wgdcraf willdatrill WilliamTiolkin wiredkappa wmmusic WM-MUSIC WOLWRELCONICOR wowgoldstright XenuAntiSpb XPlodlenomox xuhaoo XVCraig YTimmawlwheenia YTMopAxorofup YukenWolfpaws Zinfachita Zornobidirl
Should we ban them before they strike?
Although WatchLivePornWebcams sound's like a legitimate user. 😉
(I'm concerned there may be a registered user or two in here.)
Nu Audio Science ·
OK if you made that list manually you deserve a medal Wanna come and rename some samples for me , Its only about 50,000 or so for my rompler (No joke either, I wonder how many keyboards i will go through)
NAS
exonerate ·
oddson wrote: Here's a list of suspects - they signed up since March 19 and have no posts and were not already banned. 443 users in all. There's a similar number already in the banned list...
3rdeyefotos AABrerbJercob AAJersey AallelveDutt Aancethyrhycle AARealtor Aaronvm acelpdelo ADininuseked adoplated afccrkn AFluodoEnuff ajyqk alcodoKic aliemnKal Aliko Malinnis Alikos Malinniski Alikossa Modleskiaa AlinaGurova ALLArenceesora ALLJeveabsetbalf All-Nude allogmago aluckyarrax Amarikans Psihhlos ANAJersey andrew legend Anna brausik Anna kroshunicka AnnaDrymn antiptemsorn Apostruff Apperskneendy ApperyKer Arinochka arons ArreveTycle artitiorn Artrilonkis ASintesssedO AskaOlssen Assokyaresk Astersans Psihhlosas asxrfw AtroroDrop AVELINO AWheemoAccerne Azeptbypesence AZersDiose balisakisadd balisakisakk basamba-com Batssaumupe Beatedsibia berlonw BestFreeRingtoner beyette bigpap bittimentuato bizaro Bleameval blindelf bobycharlston Boiffemywamma BorisExpress Bornejaxnerma bowyers2001 BritneyLohhans Bruinaivindib brusloon bumbasan CADilkseangisse Caxbeibesaist centurion999 cezcurdia CFeeplealish chaplin chelentanoxl choormgah Chriddof chrisbird cjkpoij cjptj Cleatoeli Cloutty cltor cobra Colin Grassie CompuDJ CoolBoySuborg crstykas CSuicOccarcore cuthLouff cyrus5 dagsRearpeddy DaveClark dazdrepermaaa DDdetaacada Decay deepinit DESDUHINJURNE Diggler dinmj DjMill1974 djmukha doobiophy Dr. Hairs dr_clark Draimbmah Droxabrasse DVDtelikmah DVDtelikman DVDtelikmj DVDtelikmt Dydaydyessy Easy Forex ecalibaba315 edfirb EEApesgresk efgh607 efgh773 EltonBay ElusiaMus EmaniaAmict Emawayvom EncaxLauncMak Enduthdon eniki enjoyponywozy Epifypopfum epusetuohomeg Erarsetatly escanar68 EtafClouttYdatO Ethelmcycle ETKSeekMudge EvareAppela ExceeldBrerry ExhateetaSala exspymannn fabYLiatt Faina FanReplicaWatches fawufeyw FCinvithtuh Fe-eltfein FirstPilotPlane FixCapallepay flewseice fofolyna FreeDatingWebcam FreeWebcamGirlsVib freklinotka Fresteglate Froderly g.sus787 Gabriboy gaigidiptoppy gedacoesott georgeWoope GOTnealyclaxible gracieb guece HANQuominnonna HelenS HetaloftZosse HIBreermvole Hohutoksev houbal Hurberannarse ideaniaws ideossirm IDJigor ilove9ico ilovemusickk20 immossila impaixripmers IncaxiaBunc incingeralene InetMarketolog inilleway inorganicinc intabarne integroomskru interdvvsa Intisdise IronShwartz Irrirmrag Iruruo1695l ISDarrell IsodeAdvevy Itargewet I-van Jackson119 JAddiltEmult jailson JamieElectra JardGriford Jaro-Ma JataUnemn Jegodredstods jenteelog JessicaLewis jimihendrix jklm111 JLoes joda John-wann JRD kabo kambasana karaidon kerond kissmealli klikersoo Kneenoduewomo kneerbtrefs kps kurkoEbNow Kyrkalim LAleman LannyZE LaTravelGirl LeilaOlssen limitedproductions lindavildij Lingred LipNeeddy liteon loatuiburcirl lofi365 LOSEmatiniaBem Lovekraft Loyalaavoibra LSDeef MadammBiBi maddmaxx1981 mafDeebyses MagicOPromotion Malevol3nt MammaBreik MAMoore marketgammaua Marywell MatthewG mautoz mawr maxtune mcilhany Medsdreadly MerellOlssen MERLieryilky Mesyjeque metrochick miha_tatu milkshoes mircxemru mister brauunsi MLfevekedyNeaky mmmm5311 Modern Day Psalmist moummaweire MPUnsetewease mqeqba mrdik-rmom mroct MrSalfmadener MrSleeska MTwhimmiveBek mumenquiz muzark nanaki420 naomimckinnye natalya:) NCotCaupepseuM nealpandy nelli neorseGog ness05 newwormseo nickp405 NigoIntendete nigreeImpense Nisamaigmatam NourleformNal NQQuoroAmouch numetal_2008 offelepunteer OhyncWheeshy OKAbereduem OLaffovovelaymn OldDruggist OLOrbiderMuri olunarc omilisymn Onemone OntotheSogtef Orekattarly OSoopfellRok oti ovepleadardow OVietsritgem pandawill511 PatriotWS paxageartinee Pereezd PETER petsin petune Phildirrick PlarseDes plexidealtsax PoeltinileLep pojkdfsc pooplefoelp PseulaPlodo psychedelix PSYDELISH pvkspbrudfffgedd PWedurmoupe Qwadromen Radist Statik RafeDifeleath RagsgextTerse Ralowereks Redubcollecy Redux Roby72 RonIN RTSnivySyncHilt RumerTest s_beto sandranills sansochiii sanycrorryBal Sashaulica Saurnolassels Seittyfembeby SelectTwo SemoSteanny SenueMuhSoync seoforgeru Seval shdfjq Sheeg shoffdafRaw shumknatasn Simmineepreoky sirliciostrage Sitoo1478 SJanddiefe Skassilseteta Skevos Mavros Smeldguesse Snimitietly SoCJersey SoCNew SoCPlain soypesuff Spaddypig sphaira Spiralizer splitpen SportiotBor SSbapepourb SSliailtHyday SSPraxreple steelcoponele Stoobebow StrawBerryLUX streksru STUPIDRAIN stuv361 StypeGyncPype sudio SweetestDazy Synther Dan Tageingerce TakoTakoBurito Talannewayjex Tanyaiskra taumshasP teequeovedo Teerience teknofil teleport TenerIKKiel TerB TicketmanGeorge tIneteexign tobeads Toni88 Tothuncoons trab triarryspousy trollareulK trommetty Twereehet Tyncimpanny Uflatamer UKNithpristehen un1que1 UncleGeitsjunior Unfifytet unionecillory unlocubbedo updastusa UrirtyBor Vabartimb Valhalor VanDerrColobok Vasinett Vatametbard vavovu VeraTomsk vesittivinuix vhgmu VikiRodi vinxz vitalikgamer vwxy659 warezniumenss WatchLivePornWebcams watsonr21 WeenWelanulgE wemasafs wgdcraf willdatrill WilliamTiolkin wiredkappa wmmusic WM-MUSIC WOLWRELCONICOR wowgoldstright XenuAntiSpb XPlodlenomox xuhaoo XVCraig YTimmawlwheenia YTMopAxorofup YukenWolfpaws Zinfachita Zornobidirl
Should we ban them before they strike?
Although WatchLivePornWebcams sound's like a legitimate user. 😉
(I'm concerned there may be a registered user or two in here.)
Yes I'm sure there are many legitimate profiles there, as well as some registered users (not everyone decides to post).
But I think the ends justify the means. If anyone in that list is legitimate, even if they are a registered user, they can sign up to the forum again under a different name. Only a registered user would need to contact an admin.
So ban them all and send a pm saying "Your account has been banned as a measure to tackle spam on this board, please sign up again using a different user name. If you are a registered user of the software please contact the admin" Or something along those lines.
Similar to your suggestion Oddson but if the member is not a registered user I see no reason for them to contact the admin, just ask them to sign up a again, then they have to go through the captcha or whatever was put in place.
Cheers 😉
Exo
exonerate ·
By the way Here is a mod to ban all inactive (lurkers) accounts that have been inactive for a set amount of time.
Cheers 😉
Exo
malc ·
Thanks for that oddson!
There are definitely some legit users in there, I've spotted a few already as they are paying customers. I'll cross reference this list with our records and then ban the rest. There will still be a few legitimate lurkers affected but I'm less worried about these guys than I am about purchasers of the software.
AngularMomentum ·
Yeah thanks Oddson...for that jitter in my head...surely I am having that ringing for days between my ears. 🙂
Seriously, nice hypnotic drone, almost meditative...and I can flow on it, although it is nothing that I have related to before. Hearing the 2 flows interacting, and also from your comments on KVR, I recall Zappa, who recorded drums and bass seperatly and combined the recordings, on Sheik Yerbouti, if I recal correct, there is such a piece. It gives very logical, but accidental structures. Thanks.
oddson ·
Nu Audio Science wrote: OK if you made that list manually you deserve a medal...
Semi-manually... I cut-and-paste about 12 pages of users from the tail end of the user list until I got back to where there were only a few per day.
To get the banned users I couldn't copy from the moderator control panel so I had to view the source and then paste into MS Word and do some Search and Replace. Then a little spread-sheet work to compare the two lists. I was going to write a script to compare the two lists but did it semi-manually too.
AngularMomentum wrote: Yeah thanks Oddson...for that jitter in my head...surely I am having that ringing for days between my ears. 🙂
Seriously, nice hypnotic drone, almost meditative...and I can flow on it, although it is nothing that I have related to before. Hearing the 2 flows interacting, and also from your comments on KVR, I recall Zappa, who recorded drums and bass seperatly and combined the recordings, on Sheik Yerbouti, if I recal correct, there is such a piece. It gives very logical, but accidental structures. Thanks.
FYI - He's talking about one of three posts I've made recently at KVR's music cafe.
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=257816
I'm not sure what you mean by 'two flows'... there's the chopped up drones at the beginning and the psudo-guitar in he middle but it's all done with the four delay lines of Oddsonic.
Here are the other two: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=257237 http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=256926
AngularMomentum ·
I eamnt the two sounds, but they interact, that is what I meant with the flows really...
oddson ·
Malc... can you ban these people soon! One just posted 20 explicit posts.
Andrew J ·
..and another 14 posts within an hour
oddson ·
I quit! 🙁
stw ·
So the question may be allowed:
What the hell is the difficulty to give some temporary admin privileges to the mods, to get rid of these f*****g bullshit?? 😠
Andrew J ·
...and another banning and 14 posts deleted 😠
theun ·
Oddson on Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:30 am wrote: Here's a list of suspects ( ... ) 443 users in all.
( ... ) DDdetaacada ( ... )
Should we ban them before they strike?
malc on Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:27 pm wrote: Thanks for that oddson!
There are definitely some legit users in there, I've spotted a few already as they are paying customers. I'll cross reference this list with our records and then ban the rest. There will still be a few legitimate lurkers affected but I'm less worried about these guys than I am about purchasers of the software.
Fake lurker DDdetaacada awakes and does his dirty job ..... 14 spam posts around Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:30 pm
Oddson on Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:48 pm wrote: I quit! 🙁
Malc, it's difficult to believe that you 'd have to spend almost a week cross referencing your lists ..... Unless if 1.1.3 would be ready by the end of this week ....
theun ·
Here we go again .......
SoCJersey posted 14 p0rn posts ...
He was at Oddson's list too!
Have a look at the profile of this clown (I know he's just a name, not a real rerson) and his stupid link
http://courses.missouristate.edu/EricEckert/CommunityServer/members/afree-anal-butt-plug-balloons.aspx
I don't understand why it is so difficult for outsim to ban these accounts. Are you sleeping Malc, or dancing at Ibiza again?
I can imagine you're afraid to ban a few "paying" customers, but hey, how about us here? Aren't we paying customers too? Moreover, we are the fanbase of this fine piece of sw! Please stop the flood, it has become really annoying, especially for the mods (all being longtime enthousiasts) here, who are doing a fine job, but I honestly feel they miss outsim support.
And finally I hope to see Oddson back here real soon ...
Nu Audio Science ·
OK deleted but i am not far from doing an Oddson too 🙁
NAS
AngularMomentum ·
I am coming to understand your avatar better and better...I would be loving doing such with a spammer better then to myself though.
Nu Audio Science ·
Dude thats me waiting for an SM plugin to load hehehehe
NAS
malc ·
Really sorry folks. I will get this sorted immediately. I can't apologise enough for the delay 😊
AngularMomentum ·
Nu Audio Science wrote: Dude thats me waiting for an SM plugin to load hehehehe
NAS
I do not know if to laugh or cry...
That is not honest...I have no trouble with lag, but then again SM plugs run very fast on my system, disregarding the few bugs I am troubled with at the moment.
AngularMomentum ·
malc wrote: Really sorry folks. I will get this sorted immediately. I can't apologise enough for the delay 😊
Man, you are a one man army at the moment, at least to me you won't have to apoligise in this century.
malc ·
AngularMomentum wrote: Man, you are a one man army at the moment, at least to me you won't have to apoligise in this century.
Thank you for that sir but I definitely owe one to Oddson, NAS, electrogear, exonerate, AndrewJ and everyone else who has been fighting the spammers for so long with little action from me.
The oddson list has now been cross checked and the remaining users are now on permanent bans. I hope that will lock the blighters out now.
Once again, humble apologies for not acting sooner on this.
AngularMomentum ·
Yeah, I understand a little, I have been moderating other forums, but never experienced such invasions like this...glad I am not moderating here...heheh.
I was more talking overal...having to get the 1.1.3 done...this won't be very welcome.
stw ·
malc wrote: AngularMomentum wrote: Man, you are a one man army at the moment, at least to me you won't have to apoligise in this century.
Thank you for that sir but I definitely owe one to Oddson, NAS, electrogear, exonerate, AndrewJ and everyone else who has been fighting the spammers for so long with little action from me.
The oddson list has now been cross checked and the remaining users are now on permanent bans. I hope that will lock the blighters out now.
Once again, humble apologies for not acting sooner on this.
Thank you, malc!
Andrew J ·
Yay!
oddson ·
oddson wrote: I quit! 🙁
BTW - I only meant I quit trying to clean the mess up... not planning to walk on the forum or the product.
Nu Audio Science ·
Yeah i think we all knew that Oddson hehehe And i'm sure your as happy as me that we haven't gotta spend our visits here deleting and banning
Yay
NAS
philter5 ·
a big big thank to the mods and to malc! 😀
malc ·
oddson wrote: BTW - I only meant I quit trying to clean the mess up... not planning to walk on the forum or the product
I might have to add a special "huge sigh of relief" smilie just for this post!
I actually read it that you were on your way out - never been so pleased to be wrong 🙂
theun ·
malc wrote: I actually read it that you were on your way out - never been so pleased to be wrong 🙂
That's how I read it too! Maybe I overreacted a bit, please accept my humble apologies, Malc 😉 Anyway, I'm glad you're back Oddson! 🙂
Cheers!
stw ·
Some ominous birthdays on the forum today?
oddson ·
stw wrote: Some ominous birthdays on the forum today?
Because Malc has not deleted banned users they will still show up on the birthday annoucements. But they're almost certainly already banned.
oddson ·
I just thought I'd say Hooray!!
It's nice to log in and not find anal p0rn links everywhere.
There was one day this week where there were 20 or 30 banned users in the 'active in 24' list and we'd have been been cleaning up for days if they were successful in posting their filth.
Nu Audio Science ·
Yeah i have to visit OVG now to remind me of the good ol days lol
NAS
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