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Zombie/bot question - CarolinePar - 01-13-2011
is it me or are bots this sites' zombies?
:zomby:
agree?
or not??
Zombie/bot question - TerrorScribe - 01-13-2011
Definitely... and it looks like we're being overrun. I think it's time to break out the axes, shotguns and flamethrowers.
Zombie/bot question - Dr. Briggs - 01-13-2011
Make sure you don't ban-axe any legit members covered in barbecue sauce
/HideAndCreep :3
Zombie/bot question - FreddysFingers - 01-14-2011
They are but have a cure, it's called Briggenol.
Zombie/bot question - NicoleMayCanaday - 01-16-2011
And I bless this Holy water to fight evil & vanish the workers of satan back into the firey pits of hell
*chucks holy water balloon at Briggs*
Zombie/bot question - FreddysFingers - 01-16-2011
Holy water balloon fight with Briggs on one side and the rest of us on the other!!!!
Zombie/bot question - CarolinePar - 01-16-2011
wasn't there a song lyric to this effect
"will you hose me down with holy water - if I get too hot?"
exdev:
Zombie/bot question - Bojangles - 01-16-2011
I'm pretty sure I just owned the bots with my mighty cock power.
Zombie/bot question - FreddysFingers - 01-17-2011
In other words, we're all doomed by bots.
Zombie/bot question - Dr. Briggs - 01-17-2011
Well there are still a good number on the board, Bo; I don't think you stopped 'em from coming on altogether. I suggest you take Terrorscribe's suggestion and implement a Captcha type thing for new members so only real people can make new accounts.
Zombie/bot question - CarolinePar - 01-18-2011
Mr. Briggs Inc. Wrote:Well there are still a good number on the board, Bo; I don't think you stopped 'em from coming on altogether. I suggest you take Terrorscribe's suggestion and implement a Captcha type thing for new members so only real people can make new accounts.
is that one of those things you type a random word or something before submitting a post?
Zombie/bot question - Dr. Briggs - 01-18-2011
CarolinePar Wrote:Yesindeedy.
is that one of those things you type a random word or something before submitting a post?
Zombie/bot question - TerrorScribe - 01-18-2011
Mr. Briggs Inc. Wrote:Well there are still a good number on the board, Bo; I don't think you stopped 'em from coming on altogether. I suggest you take Terrorscribe's suggestion and implement a Captcha type thing for new members so only real people can make new accounts.
Yeah, might need a bit more than just CAPTCHA since they're still trickling in. Better to have new people just through a few hoops than to have bots. The next big issues would be to go through and delete the bot accounts. There's no point in gumming up the database with 15000 bot accounts. They're pretty easy to pick them out from real accounts. I, for one, would volunteer to help clean them out.
Zombie/bot question - Dr. Briggs - 01-18-2011
TerrorScribe Wrote:Yeah, might need a bit more than just CAPTCHA since they're still trickling in. Better to have new people just through a few hoops than to have bots. The next big issues would be to go through and delete the bot accounts. There's no point in gumming up the database with 15000 bot accounts. They're pretty easy to pick them out from real accounts. I, for one, would volunteer to help clean them out.I figured most were already deleted and those you currently see at the bottom were the result of not having Captcha protection for making new accounts :/
Zombie/bot question - TerrorScribe - 01-19-2011
They still must be adding as fast as they're being deleted. We still have over 15000 members. :eek:
Zombie/bot question - CarolinePar - 01-19-2011
:reddisgust:is there any REAL purpose for bots that "take over" a site anyway?
Zombie/bot question - TerrorScribe - 01-19-2011
My experience with bot accounts on a forum is that they are there to spam the boards with ads. One of my friends boards got overrun with bots and there were literally THOUSANDS of spam posts. It wasn't fun cleaning that up. Also, as we've seen from a few of the bot accounts, they have links in their profiles. Get enough of these and when search engines come through, they don't see horror site, they start seeing links for porn and viagra. It's not pretty.
Zombie/bot question - KaptariMind - 01-19-2011
Hopefully the spam zombie-bots are classic shamblers and not modern sprinters... It will give Bojangles's cock power more time to... uh... reach maximum potential.
New to the boards, and even I noticed the major jump in members since the first time I got on and lurked two weeks ago. How the hell do they do that?
Zombie/bot question - Dr. Briggs - 01-19-2011
KaptariMind Wrote:Hopefully the spam zombie-bots are classic shamblers and not modern sprinters... It will give Bojangles's cock power more time to... uh... reach maximum potential.Robot powers man...
New to the boards, and even I noticed the major jump in members since the first time I got on and lurked two weeks ago. How the hell do they do that?
Zombie/bot question - FreddysFingers - 01-21-2011
What triggered the sudden incline in bot members?