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Duckwarrior · Post by **Duckwarrior** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:26 pm

Forboding Angel wrote:QUOTE (Forboding Angel @ May 28 2011, 10:54 AM) After YEARS I come back.....................complaining

Well, gee........Sigh......Back it up.......I thought,.............allegiance......winsauce........the entire time it has been........Also......it.....makes me lol.

This post has been edited by The Happy Thoughts Forum Scanner Jun 4 2011, 02.24 PM

spideycw · Post by **spideycw** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:14 pm

If I was still a ZL I'd expose his ip!

Post by **FreeBeer** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:00 pm

We got a major flood of spambots a while back. It was most annoying. CAPTCHA doesn't really help much. The 'bots get around that. There's a whole "industry" involved in solving CAPTCHA problems. For instance, there are people who's job it is to manually solve them. A 'bot sends the CAPTCHA to a live human (in India or wherever) who solves it and the 'bot then continues on.

Never underestimate the lengths spammer will go to get their spamming done.

raumvogel · Post by **raumvogel** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:27 pm

Duckwarrior wrote:QUOTE (Duckwarrior @ Jun 4 2011, 09:26 AM) This post has been edited by The Happy Thoughts Forum Scanner Jun 4 2011, 02.24 PM

Stop being so foreboding and:

Bard · Post by **Bard** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:57 am

FreeBeer wrote:QUOTE (FreeBeer @ Jun 4 2011, 11:00 AM) Never underestimate the lengths spammer will go to get their spamming done.

Which is precisely why flying under the radar is our best option.

Many of the spammers we're getting are a result of going semi-visible, briefly, ONCE, *SEVERAL YEARS AGO*.

It only takes one indexing to fubar things, sadly.

HSharp · Post by **HSharp** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:07 am

Bard wrote:QUOTE (Bard @ Jun 5 2011, 05:57 AM) Which is precisely why flying under the radar is our best option.

Many of the spammers we're getting are a result of going semi-visible, briefly, ONCE, *SEVERAL YEARS AGO*.

It only takes one indexing to fubar things, sadly.

If the news is visible without an account then why not the general forums? Indexing and allowing a forum to be visible to the public are two different things, can still keep need account to post rights.

ryujin · Post by **ryujin** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:57 pm

Bard wrote:QUOTE (Bard @ Jun 4 2011, 11:57 PM) Which is precisely why flying under the radar is our best option.

Many of the spammers we're getting are a result of going semi-visible, briefly, ONCE, *SEVERAL YEARS AGO*.

It only takes one indexing to fubar things, sadly.

Is this why i have to wait so long to do a second search? Keep $#@!ers from indexing @#(!?

Bard · Post by **Bard** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 6:13 pm

Ryujin wrote:QUOTE (Ryujin @ Jun 30 2011, 12:57 PM) Is this why i have to wait so long to do a second search? Keep $#@!ers from indexing @#(!?

No.

The indexing that bots do is independent of the forum search.

The delay on second searches here is to keep from slamming the forum database too hard. If there wasn't some sort of delay, a dozen or so users all searching at once would make the forum so slow as to be almost unusable for everyone just trying to read and post.

Searches can be very database-intensive.