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Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« on: June 16, 2011, 03:07:21 PM »
that's all.
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Re: Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2011, 04:58:34 PM »
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Re: Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2011, 03:07:15 PM »
Ok, this spammer is a real $&%$#^ing $&^&#*#!! Is there no way you can just ban spammers? If not, then the website should have an option for the spammer handlers to ban them.
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Re: Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2011, 04:15:57 PM »
Quote from: Rumplestilskin on June 18, 2011, 03:07:15 PM
Ok, this spammer is a real $&%$#^ing $&^&#*#!! Is there no way you can just ban spammers? If not, then the website should have an option for the spammer handlers to ban them.

If there was a way for a forum to know if it's a spammer signing up, forum spam wouldn't exist.
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Re: Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2011, 07:13:00 PM »
I don't mean that the website itself should be able to detect a spammer, I mean that Derek and Chase should have a "ban-hammer" of sorts. I know these things exist on many other forums and websites etc. etc. etc. It would just be nice if they could simply ban people for "spammer type" posts.
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Re: Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2011, 08:52:22 PM »
I've probably banned close to 100 "people" and deleted their accounts in the last 7 days.  Matt has banned quite a few as well.  I'm sure Derek has owned plenty of fools too.

We do our best.  I still refuse to "approve" people before they can post on our boards.  If the spam keeps up I may change my mind.
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Re: Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2011, 09:36:41 PM »
Quote from: Chase on June 18, 2011, 08:52:22 PM
Matt has banned quite a few as well. 

I know he was very pro-active Thursday evening. :)
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Re: Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2011, 12:23:05 AM »
I've banned over 900 spam accounts since Friday. Some were old.

It hasn't done any good though. They are creating something like 20-30 accounts per day. Some post spam and some do nothing.
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Re: Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2011, 12:52:29 AM »
I think you should hire young nerdlings to ban the undesirables :)
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Re: Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2011, 03:14:35 AM »
Young nerdlings would likely abuse the "power" / cause drama / accidentally ban everyone who has registered with a gmail account.  ;)
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Re: Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2011, 03:55:06 AM »
foiled again!
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Re: Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« Reply #11 on: June 19, 2011, 03:56:16 AM »
if there's anything game store nerds on power trips are good at, its causing drama.
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Re: Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« Reply #12 on: June 19, 2011, 11:21:00 AM »
Sweet.
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Re: Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2011, 02:20:22 PM »
Quote from: Ian Mulligan on June 19, 2011, 03:56:16 AM
if there's anything game store nerds on power trips are good at, its causing drama.
Then let's get some cameras on that, market it to TLC as a reality TV show.
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Re: Nice! Derek beat me to the spam banning!
« Reply #14 on: June 19, 2011, 03:31:38 PM »
Ben, you're rapidly becoming my favorite person.
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