Omnimaga
General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Deep Toaster on October 06, 2010, 08:32:58 pm
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Now I'm scared: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/10/05/15594091.html (http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/10/05/15594091.html)
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HOLY SNAP THAT IS SCARY!! :o
guy6020665 runs off to check his facebook.
Edit: ok i'm fine no spam messages on mine.
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/me tries to check his facebook, but remembers he doesn't have one.
Wow, that is insane.
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$100 per spam doesn't actually sound that bad...
How's that guy gonna pay up?
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It said he filed for bankruptcy, IIRL.
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haha yeah.. I dont think that a single person could ever pay that much money in his life
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Yeah I saw that in news today and was shocked at the money he got to pay. However, they need to start doing something about spam, especially forum spam, because it got really bad with the time.
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Lucky we don't get it too much here anymore. (not like i have been here long enough to witness previous spamming)
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Well we don't get much because we got anti-spams turned ON. However, if we had the other anti-spam we had, it would filter them even better.
With no anti-spam, we would get about 40 bots a day. This is what we got on the old Omnimaga forums (although none could post because of the filter we setup on new members, they could still register)
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What happened to the other anti-spam?
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Haha, serves him well!
What happened to the other anti-spam?
I believe it doesn't work on the current version of SMF, or something like that.
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1and1 did some stuff (probably changing PHP settings) that caused the other anti-spam to stop working altogether.
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aww, drat... oh well, at least they cant post :D
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and then there are banhammers. :P
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Well they can post, but the current filter seems to work kinda well. We don't get bots pretty often. I am sure a lot have signed up, though, noticing all the weird accounts we got since the other anti-spam got disabled (unless they're all accounts by Verdant x.x)
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My friend told me there use to be a very nasty professional spammer-troller running around called bungie. What is anti-spam?
And also on certain forums swearing immediately gets you IP banned. I don't like those forums!
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I lost The Game ;D
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My friend told me there use to be a very nasty professional spammer-troller running around called bungie.
Yes, we dealt with Bungie before. And who your friend might be, since he seems to know Bungie well?
What is anti-spam?
Simply a tool to block most spam.
And also on certain forums swearing immediately gets you IP banned. I don't like those forums!
That won't happen here, unless it's spam.
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Reminds me of this banker, Jerôme Kerviel, who had to pay a few billions. (he was a rogue trader)
The sum was the equivalent of 177000 years of his work. Yes you read that right.
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I hope that other countries and some companies take example on the article linked to in the first post and punish those spammers. I know that happened before, with e-mail spam, but not enough yet. Maybe they could integrate site/forum/comment board/chat spam into vandalism too? :P
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Another thing: Use good grammar: http://www.legalwritingpro.com/articles/D10-million-dollar-commas.php
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My friend told me there use to be a very nasty professional spammer-troller running around called bungie. What is anti-spam?
And also on certain forums swearing immediately gets you IP banned. I don't like those forums!
so your friend is on Omni? who is he?
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My friend told me there use to be a very nasty professional spammer-troller running around called bungie. What is anti-spam?
And also on certain forums swearing immediately gets you IP banned. I don't like those forums!
I'm kind of wondering - why did Thegame lose two respects for this post?
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I'm not sure but I think someone on IRC thought he was actually Verdant or that he started a topic to tell us to not spam in Randomness or something. It was rated -3 and I rated it up. It might have been due to the bungie reference or the comment regarding forums that bans for swearing. I think the last comment was OK, though, since no calc forums are concerned as far as I know.
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heh, there should be a fine for making someone lose the game
/me runs