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Postby agm on Thu May 06, 2010 2:43 pm

This board was started on January 11, 2008. As of this moment, we have:

1,129 Topics
10,367 Posts
268 Users (some duplicates, others never used)
10,496 Fake user registration attempts by Eastern European spammers (yes, that's the real number)
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Re: Random board info

Postby TheHammer on Thu May 06, 2010 2:48 pm

lol, wow the Eastern Europeen spammers are pretty active here.
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Re: Random board info

Postby Rich McClain on Thu May 06, 2010 6:22 pm

I was tagged as a moderator on the GLSAA site around the first of the year. I get hits every day that are mainly spammers. It is hard to tell by the information they provide if they are a spammer, but one bad post and I get to ban them for life. The GLSAA numbers are nowhere near 10,000 though.
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Re: Random board info

Postby agm on Thu May 06, 2010 7:36 pm

I got 53 fake registrations in the past 24 hours. That's why I put in a two-part system: register, then email me with the user ID. There's no real person behind these; it's all automated, and so far only once has that follow-up email been sent.
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Re: Random board info

Postby CelticElf66 on Thu May 13, 2010 8:33 am

THANK YOU ADAM! For all that you do behind the scenes :shock:
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Re: Random board info

Postby bhuntley on Thu May 13, 2010 3:01 pm

Rich McClain wrote:I was tagged as a moderator on the GLSAA site around the first of the year. I get hits every day that are mainly spammers. It is hard to tell by the information they provide if they are a spammer, but one bad post and I get to ban them for life. The GLSAA numbers are nowhere near 10,000 though.

I can attest to the same thing... Our board has a "approve and require activation" feature I am using that on everyone that signs up at this point..
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Re: Random board info

Postby FrankH on Tue Sep 21, 2010 3:42 pm

I'm just posting here to get the quad-fecta of posting in all 4 categories. Carry on.
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