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Offline Gar

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member list clean up
« on: December 11, 2008, 10:06:10 PM »
OK. I deleted a bunch of members. These were mostly known spammer members or members with multiple member names to a single ip address. If any were deleted wrongly, let me know or just re-join. I left 2-3 accounts that I was unsure about. There were several "markers" of spammer account, but something that made me say, "maybe not".

All deleted have 0 posts. Most were last activity on the day they joined.

Again, any problems, take it up with me, as I did it.

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Re: member list clean up
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2008, 08:49:26 AM »
Hello?   Hello?    Anybody hear me?   Am I still here?

Whew !!  Looks like it made it through the clean up.    ;D







Actually, thanks for cleaning the place up. 
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Re: member list clean up
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2008, 03:54:45 PM »
Yes, absolutely Kudos to Gar...

I've nuked a few accounts and post but he's definitely done the bulk of the work. 

(So apparently, lawyers aren't completely useless, who knew?)

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Re: member list clean up
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2008, 04:02:07 PM »
Also I added a module that will check registrar's name/ip agains a known spammer database.

Might help, might not :)

I also cranked up the captcha and other settings.
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Re: member list clean up
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2008, 12:30:56 AM »
I'm not a spamer! I'm a member damnit! 






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Re: member list clean up
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2009, 01:55:32 PM »
I guess I did not the short list. I tried to post a while back but the site was down.