Omnimaga
Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: Juju on July 10, 2011, 03:38:06 am
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Because sometimes we are a bit late onposting news articles on our front page, and because we try to expand our scope towards new subjects, we thought that it would be a great idea to automate the process of posting news. As a result, tonight we have installed a new forum feature: PostBots. Basically, they are bots that crawls the entire web for news content that is relevant to our website.
However, we discovered that this new software was shareware after installing it. As a result, it caused the bot to advertise Las Vegas Florist websites directly on our front page news. As a result, we have been forced to remove the mod immediately, although some of our users seemed to be interested in the new content and potential site expansion. In the future we will see if we change our mind and put it back on.
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Actually I want to read more about these Las Vegas florists. It would be awesome if we could have news like that, instead of this calculator stuff.
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Actually I want to read more about these Las Vegas florists. It would be awesome if we could have news like that, instead of this calculator stuff.
Lol :P
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Brown text means fake news, right? I was about to say, I hated it when shareware deceptively waits until you've already installed it before announcing itself as such, and posting irrelevant advertisements in news is just plain evil. :D
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Brown text means fake news, right? I was about to say, I hated it when shareware deceptively waits until you've already installed it before announcing itself as such, and posting irrelevant advertisements in news is just plain evil. :D
Lol yes, brown means fake :P
It was from a real incident though just minutes before x.x We fixed the issue that allowed the bot to post in the news section though so this shouldn't happen again.
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Actually I want to read more about these Las Vegas florists. It would be awesome if we could have news like that, instead of this calculator stuff.
Indeed, I'm quite bored with calculator stuff, it's cool, but Las Vegas Florists totally beat Calculator Stuff, 10-0.
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Is it sad that I just amused my self by reading through various spambots' topics in the Trash Bin?
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Is it sad that I just amused my self by reading through various spambots' topics in the Trash Bin?
It's totally normal.
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I wouldn't mind tutorials on floral assembly, though. :P
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I wouldn't mind tutorials on floral assembly, though. :P
Hmm, we seem to be lacking those...
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Yeah, I should create a new subforum on flowers.
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Seriously though, how did that spambot post in News?
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Seriously though, how did that spambot post in News?
Some permissions we forgot to change when we added in user posting levels. Anybody could post in the news but it's been fixed.
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Seriously though, how did that spambot post in News?
Some permissions we forgot to change when we added in user posting levels. Anybody could post in the news but it's been fixed.
That was probably when DJ_O added the ARS group.
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Seriously though, how did that spambot post in News?
Some permissions we forgot to change when we added in user posting levels. Anybody could post in the news but it's been fixed.
That was probably when DJ_O added the ARS group.
No not the ARS, it was specifically the user ranks ( based on how many posts you have ). They all had permission to post in the News board.
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Seriously though, how did that spambot post in News?
Some permissions we forgot to change when we added in user posting levels. Anybody could post in the news but it's been fixed.
That was probably when DJ_O added the ARS group.
No not the ARS, it was specifically the user ranks ( based on how many posts you have ). They all had permission to post in the News board.
Ah ok. DJ told me he thought he messed up there. Also dunno if you recognized his style in the first post.
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And nobody noticed until now. I guess spambots are helpful sometimes :)
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We introduced user levels since a while and nobody had the idea to try to create a new topic in news? Well good job guys.
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show's how disciplined we are. :P
also, what's with the floral stuff?
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http://ourl.ca/3343/191136
:P
Anyway, sounds like a great system, any plans on putting it back up? :D
We get some weird bots around here...
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http://ourl.ca/3343/191136
:P
Anyway, sounds like a great system, any plans on putting it back up? :D
We get some weird bots around here...
._. finally a time to use this :D
XD
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http://ourl.ca/3343/191136
:P
He couldn't actually post then.
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http://ourl.ca/3343/191136
:P
Anyway, sounds like a great system, any plans on putting it back up? :D
We get some weird bots around here...
and look at the poll lol
http://ourl.ca/9966
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show's how disciplined we are. :P
also, what's with the floral stuff?
Yeah, did a bot actually post in news or something?
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http://ourl.ca/3343/191136
:P
Anyway, sounds like a great system, any plans on putting it back up? :D
We get some weird bots around here...
and look at the poll lol
http://ourl.ca/9966
Wait... Is that you, annoyingorange? Are you Mario?
show's how disciplined we are. :P
also, what's with the floral stuff?
Yeah, did a bot actually post in news or something?
Yes.
Las Vegas Florist
Las Vegas Wedding Flowers
Las Vegas Flowers (http://goo.gl/QMET)
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Nah, Darl181 linked to Mario's comments in the Project M thread, and then annoyingorange must have remembered that Mario made that poll.
Let's see...that makes a grand total of 13 posts for me D:
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http://ourl.ca/3343/191136
:P
Anyway, sounds like a great system, any plans on putting it back up? :D
We get some weird bots around here...
and look at the poll lol
http://ourl.ca/9966
Wait... Is that you, annoyingorange? Are you Mario?
^^ ??? no
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Well, they are both stalking calc84 and they're both from the same range of IPs...
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Well, they are both stalking calc84 and they're both from the same range of IPs...
well my dad did make an account to see how good omni is at keeping away spamers before I could join but I dont know what its name was.
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Las Vegas Florist
Las Vegas Wedding Flowers
Las Vegas Flowers (http://goo.gl/QMET)
If only those were the actual URLs it posted :P
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Well, they are both stalking calc84 and they're both from the same range of IPs...
well my dad did make an account to see how good omni is at keeping away spamers before I could join but I dont know what its name was.
Interesting. Maybe it's just a Chicago thing, being a Mario fan ;)
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Now <a href=http://ourl.ca/12027/227052;topicseen#new>look</a> what you've done Juju. Now I know what kind of makeup I can wear when my Psoriasis breaks out. Fantastic!
I think we should definitely keep this new system. I don't know how I've lived without it!