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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 08:45 pm
by da_weezle
Can't someone write a bot-killer?
These things are getting to me. :evil:

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Maybe disable the Guest-account for posting?
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I mean a bot-killer for these forum bots by the way, not the bots in TF.
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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:09 pm
by DustyStyx
da_weezle wrote:Can't someone write a bot-killer?
These things are getting to me. :evil:
The forum bots arn't to bad... yet. I've been giving them the ol' axe when I see them. I still like the guest option for the forum. We have had a number of good guest posts, and for the most part the forum bots have been actualy registering accounts to post with.

It may be that we will have to make a single sub-forum with guest access though. or maybe get one of thoes scrambled numeric conformation image generators... hehe or maybe just a "dagger, eye, moon" sub password. :D besides, your one of thoes programmer types arn't you? <hint> <hint>

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 06:32 am
by Willis
As Cruaich said, guest posting has proven to be very useful, and it has long been the tradition of the qblood/Transfusion project. It encourages users to participate without having to go out of their way.

I feel the moderation on this forum is good enough to leave the guest posting as it is... these rather rare spam posts are almost always handled within 24 hours, which doesn't really detriment the community, they should just be ignored, and as always, they will be removed.

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 09:30 am
by da_weezle
Lol, I was thinking about creating a topic for this, but I didn't... or did I?...

Anyways, lol @ Chris. But then I'd have to choose between coding for the botkiller or for TF-code... I know where my priorities lie. ;)

Well it's not really bugging me that much, just a bit of frustration as to what certain companies resort to in order to make more $'s. But then you have McDonald's and such, so I guess it's not the worse thing in the world.

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:31 am
by Willis
Chris, since you delete the majority of them, can you from this point on either document what the content is or move them into balm & poontang? If we get a pattern or a phrase match on them, adding in a post block shouldn't be too difficult, similar to word filtering, only in this case, denying a post instead of changing a word.

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 08:10 pm
by da_weezle
^ The man with the plan. ^

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:56 am
by DustyStyx
Willis, sure I'll just arcive it in a text file or some such. For the most part bots like to use quotes and have links to gambling webpages.

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 11:30 am
by Guest
I'm a bot.

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 11:32 am
by oBe
Damn it, I was going for a practical joke /\ /\, but I wasn't logged in, now it's just a practical nothing.

Okay, here I go again:
"I'm a Bot."

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 04:40 pm
by da_weezle
Hahahhahah!!!

How ironic...

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 04:54 pm
by r_cain
yep, would a bot make that mistake?