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Offline Megster

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banning the bots and everyone else LOL
« on: June 09, 2010, 08:47:32 PM »
I'm changing the way I've banned some spammers over the past couple of years because if I keep on banning like this, I'm going to ban everyone who lies within 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255 and that includes all of us.

So I actually lifted a bunch of bans that had never been triggered (yes we can see all your pathetic attempts!) and in general am trying to clean things up so that things will be more efficient in the future. 

Anyway, if there's increased spamming in the next few days, that's my fault. lol.   I'll get it :)
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Re: banning the bots and everyone else LOL
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2010, 08:24:24 AM »
 :wacko: I have magic powers! :wacko:
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Re: banning the bots and everyone else LOL
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2010, 08:10:36 PM »
Bots seem to "hit n run" im sure things will go smoothly. Pathetic attempts haha

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Re: banning the bots and everyone else LOL
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2010, 08:42:13 PM »
I got the ones that did most of the posting.  The new ones just make accounts and put free porn links w00t! in their signatures.

They keep trying until they realize they've been banned, which takes a couple hours to a couple days (you can see all the ban trigger logs pile up)

Daaaamn I'm a geek. lol
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