Nonce Equitaur 2 wrote: For lurkers, this could probably be handled intelligently.memberlist.php?sk=d&sd=a&start=3150 -- all names of random characters, no board activity. Likely all spammers.memberlist.php?sk=d&sd=a&start=500 -- Thatlist, brownedawg, Doogmar all look like lurkers. Lurkers are fine, they'd just need to be identified as such.
arktos1971 wrote: Thank you so much for all that you do Nonce. Your dedication is priceless. Do you know who is the webmaster of the wikia, as I try to contribute as best as I can, I'd like to get in touch with him. Thanks !
Nonce Equitaur 2 wrote: Wow... it only took ten minutes for the site to get littered with spam. The bots have 1000+ user accounts lined up, and some of these guys will post 50 spam messages at a time, so things might get really ugly around here. But it would likely take D3 just a few minutes to delete the bot-hordes before they can wreak havok.
Nonce Equitaur 2 wrote: The spam spigot looks like it stopped abruptly after I did the mass ban of queued spammers, even though their reputations didn't go to -50. As a proof of concept, I cleared away the 20+ spam messages that accumulated during the time that I built the list. Lets see if the board stays spam free for awhile. If it does, my mass-ban of the spammer-queue was successful.
TheUnwiseOne wrote: Now it's full of spam and xmen troll threads.
Clintman wrote: It is my opinion that the Devs have given up on the community, this is apparent by the lack of presence on the forums, it is apparent by the fact that most of our Mods have left the game and they have made no effort to replace them, or do anything about the spam on the site.