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Recent spam - apology and solution
« on: July 20, 2006, 03:12:02 AM »
Dear Chaser member,

I apologise for disturbing you again. But some automated spam system or other attacked the forum earlier this week and sent porn from an account called "Harrison Ford".

I apologise for the irritation, which has been considerable all round – unsurprisingly, we've been deluged by complaints. (Not to mention the affront to a renowned actor.)

We go to considerable lengths to protect personal information. So to prevent recurrence, I have decided to remove new users' rights to the private messaging system.

New members now cannot send private messages until they have sent 10 regular forum posts. When they have, their group will be updated from 'Fresher' to 'Sophomore', and they will automatically be granted permission.

Existing users' rights to send messages should have remained untouched – let me know if there are any problems.

I have also decreased the number of private messages any user can send to 3 and increased the time between posts to 90 seconds. Which should slow any future spammer down substantially, allowing us to act before everyone's inconvenienced.

Of course, if you appreciated Harrison's email, no harm done.

thanks,

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« Last Edit: July 20, 2006, 04:03:05 AM by dom »
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Re: Recent spam - apology and solution
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2006, 03:19:30 AM »
Dom, I posted a new thread, then tried to write to Merran and got the new "your IP sent a message within the last 120 seconds" 'thing', and when I tried a couple of mins later, I was still getting the same message. Fingers crossed that enough time has elapsed while I've been writing this for me to proceed.

Slightly tipsy. I tried to make sense here, honest.
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Re: Recent spam - apology and solution
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2006, 03:23:37 AM »
How will any fadey challengers ever get up to 8000 having to wait 2 minutes to post a stinging emoticon the place will will collapse under the strain of having 2 minutes to cool down or compose an intelligent reply.
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Re: Recent spam - apology and solution
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2006, 03:23:58 AM »
Note to self: take more notice of what the fuck you're doing.

Okay..so typing that last post AND this one, will delay the time before I can write to her. This is so bad for my head right now.  :|



PS. And then I couldn't post this because apparently it was too soon after trying to write to her. This is maddening.  :-D   Fuck you, Harrison.
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Re: Recent spam - apology and solution
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2006, 03:28:53 AM »
Wow, 120 seconds is a long time mate.  Sometimes on the threads we get going pretty quick with the back and forth.  Is 60 seconds possible? 
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Re: Recent spam - apology and solution
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2006, 04:25:58 AM »
It's now 90 seconds. That ought to do it. If the spam problem doesn't reoccur in spite of my precautions, I'll reduce it again. Sorry it's annoying, but if we'd nabbed it last time a lot of people wouldn't have gotten that goddamned porn email.
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Re: Recent spam - apology and solution
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2006, 04:28:23 AM »
The 120 second thing really fucked me around.  I'm sure I spent more than two minutes composing most posts; I'm a pedant after all. :-)  Also, you know, hic.
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Re: Recent spam - apology and solution
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2006, 04:32:19 AM »
Keep up the good work Dom
The Night Owls/ Shiftworkers/ Drunks and Insomniacs  appreciate it.
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Re: Recent spam - apology and solution
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2006, 04:32:55 AM »
The expats appreciate it too  :-D
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Re: Recent spam - apology and solution
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2006, 04:38:15 AM »
Jeez I always forget someone, thought I had covered most people I meet around here
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Re: Recent spam - apology and solution
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2006, 04:47:39 AM »
Quote from: Fredson on July 20, 2006, 04:38:15 AM
Jeez I always forget someone, thought I had covered most people I meet around here

Come on Fred, how could you forget me   :|


Oh yeah, there is that   :x
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Re: Recent spam - apology and solution
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2006, 08:07:01 AM »
meh, what's a bit of spam? trash it, and move on with life :)

i dunno about anyone else, but i was appreciative of a bit of free porn  :lol:
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Re: Recent spam - apology and solution
« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2006, 08:36:32 AM »
Quote from: squiggleyak on July 20, 2006, 08:07:01 AM
meh, what's a bit of spam? trash it, and move on with life :)

i dunno about anyone else, but i was appreciative of a bit of free porn  :lol:

Yeah but wasn't it you who posted that picture of a bloke sucking himself off?
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Re: Recent spam - apology and solution
« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2006, 09:30:33 AM »
Damn, that sucks.  No more posting a snappy retort thirty seconds after someone has posted their....  I forget.  I haven't had a coffee or smoke yet.  All I can think of is "Now you're tired of fighting, fighting yourself!"; a line from Dead Star by Muse.  None of the other good parts of the song, just that bit.

Fuck you, subliminal messaging.
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Re: Recent spam - apology and solution
« Reply #14 on: July 20, 2006, 09:35:24 AM »
Oh, something just occured to me.

Dom, is it possible to remove that wait timer to people who have made a substantial amount of posts?  Like, remove the timer to people over 100, or 250 posts?

This could encourage others to posts; possibly a good and bad thing.

Either way, having no boundries to those of us who've already proven we're not here to send porn in a site message (A struggle most of us have to endure every day) could be done, couldn't it?
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