Dodgy!!

n3wton · Post by **n3wton** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:01 pm

Whats with the dodgy people registering on the forums.. I have noticed this for quite a well, but havent really mentioned anything...

check out the latest user to register ~friendfinder ?! check out his website ..... this is about the 7th person I have seen register with a dodgy website.. kinda weird if you ask me

anyhow bye

n3wt

TTR · Post by **TTR** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:05 pm

LOL! errmmm wrong website? doh!

DEMENTOR · Post by **DEMENTOR** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:22 pm

@TTR: ?

@N3wton: I have noticed dodgey people as well, there were some peeps with ! at the start of their name. Wonder who these gimps are?

TTR · Post by **TTR** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:30 pm

DEMENTOR: i was talking about he guy with 'friend finder' he was on the wrong website you know..

random_monkey · Post by **random_monkey** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:56 pm

Yeah, Look at the first few users in the user list - All registered within the past few days or so

Is it worth cleaning something like that out Beast?

n3wton · Post by **n3wton** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 7:02 pm

another fucking tosser today look!

username: !!!

website (about-contact-lenses.com ) ffs!

TTR · Post by **TTR** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 3:02 am

Hehehe

Beast · Post by **Beast** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 3:03 am

Those are probably bot-created usernames. Not much I can do bout them xcept delete them, and I'll do so when I get back to Greece.

TTR · Post by **TTR** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 3:07 am

Whats up with Greece may i ask? your C2 disk lies there too tho...you mean the country right?

Beast · Post by **Beast** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 10:15 am

Well, I'm originaly from Macedonia, and I spent the first 18 years of my life there. For the past year I've been living in Greece for study reasons. I go to Macedonia on weekends every now and then, and I'm in Macedonia whenever there's a bigger break off uni.

B.

matt · Post by **matt** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 2:03 pm

Not that dodgy I suppose, weblog comments are taking the brunt of this sort of spam at the moment, all the stuff that doesn't need registering for. I opposed having to register, and still do actually, but I must concede it does mean you can be more lax on administration.

I was just perusing the stats, of 1610 registered accounts, 1303 have never been logged into, and the active community appears to be just under 100 users, I was pleasantly suprised by that actually.

n3wton · Post by **n3wton** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 2:32 pm

have you got a option within your MODCP or ADMINCP to delete accounts that havent been used

nWo4life · Post by **nWo4life** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 4:55 pm

Maybe a tip for the administrators; I have been walking on different forums on the internet, and one of them had a pretty nice way to delete inactive accounts; Unlog everybody once a half year, and if you are not logged in 2 months the account will be deleted. I know I am a damn n00b, and I also know that those script are difficult to make, but it is only a tip. Don't kill me if you don't like it

Greetz, nWo4life

DEMENTOR · Post by **DEMENTOR** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 12:11 pm

Yeah good idea I suppose, but some people take 'breaks' from carma and come back later.

M®. £üñ¢hßØx · Post by **M®. £üñ¢hßØx** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 1:52 pm

I've done stuff like that before. I wouldn't appreciate it if my account was magically deleted 'cuz I had other stuff to take care of for a while. Maybe instead of 2 months, it should be those 6? I think it's safe to assume that if they don't log in for six months, they more than likely aren't going to log back in. Besides that, if they do and their account is deleted, they'll probably be lucky enough to sign up with that account name again. Like my name. I can't even type my name, so odds are no one else will, either.

random_monkey · Post by **random_monkey** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 7:45 pm

And wave goodbye to all of those posts you gained, thus losing any 'respectability' and stuff...

I know it seems like a crying point or something. But when you've been around a bit and gain some trust and 'battle scars' - you don't want to have them stripped and stuff, right? :/

Deep_Blue · Post by **Deep_Blue** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 8:02 pm

Right on, Monkey and M®._£üñ¢hßØx .

I had to do that already (start over, I mean-and it can be quite a pain.). Twice!

OK, OK, I didn't type it either

TheJabMan · Post by **TheJabMan** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:04 am

Im guessing the bot is set to reply to certain things, I mean it has to register so it's got to know what's asking for a password and username, makes it up and fires it off... what about just adding something like another section with a random # generator, like those "please type the # you see" I mean Im sure there is something that can get past it, but hey, I know networking, not bots :P

Either that or something that makes no sense, it would be something just a like a question granting you to register like, what's the board called or something, hell I dunno...

As for deleting unused accounts, bad idea, I've been gone for 5 months, tsk tsk.

n3wton · Post by **n3wton** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 3:08 am

I was just perusing the stats, of 1610 registered accounts, 1303 have never been logged into, and the active community appears to be just under 100 users, I was pleasantly suprised by that actually.

am on about the 1303 that have never been logged into, whats the point of of keeping them ?

Beast · Post by **Beast** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 4:01 am

Just did a simple purge, as you might have noticed. I deleted usernames that have not been active in the past 365 days. Lightened the load, and all the active users kept their accounts.

I'll do a more thorough comb of the user list when I get back to Greece tommorow.

See, I do come in handy every now and then.

B.

TTR · Post by **TTR** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 6:50 am

I see it, 1st there where like over 1600 and now 345 members

random_monkey · Post by **random_monkey** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 10:33 am

*ahem*

Arsehole.

C2 Scientist · Post by **C2 Scientist** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 10:35 am

RM: How clever. And today some "DodgyG" registered as well... how funny.

By the way, Beast, tell me, are older threads being deleted once they reach a certain "oldness"-limit? I haven't been checking that so closely, but I think they are, right? I know this board is newer, at least the old board contantly removed the oldest topics...

"Why should they be kept" one might ask... why not? (Unless the board can't take it, of course) I was wondering... (I wonder a lot, hm?)

Lumberjack · Post by **Lumberjack** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 11:49 am

Yeah.

I think a year is a good limit btw, because I can't post on this board outside of the uni network for some reason, I don't think it likes my isp's ip range. So yeah, I've been away for longer than 6 months in a go I reckon. Maybe not, but I'd rather not take the chance of losing my "battle scars".

matt · Post by **matt** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:54 pm

*ahem*

Arsehole.

*whistles innocently*

random_monkey · Post by **random_monkey** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:54 pm

Moron

Astaroth · Post by **Astaroth** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 3:56 pm

Since we are talking about Dodgy, someone called DodgyG just registered

Lumberjack · Post by **Lumberjack** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 4:58 am

Erm, deja vu?

n3wton · Post by **n3wton** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 6:11 pm

B.... please delete 0000aso user, check out his website... ok until clicked!

TTR · Post by **TTR** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 6:28 pm

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