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Omnimaga => Site Feedback and Questions => Topic started by: AssemblyBandit on November 26, 2011, 04:04:31 pm

Title: Bots????
Post by: AssemblyBandit on November 26, 2011, 04:04:31 pm
Sorry for the absence, been offline for a few months, got back on and seen the new members bar with mostly names like qwer1234, four characters followed by four numbers, probably should ban them ahead of time?????
Title: Re: Bots????
Post by: Deep Toaster on November 26, 2011, 05:15:48 pm
Many of them are legitimate members and we wouldn't to go on a banning spree just because their nicks look random. The forum already has a bot-detection system in place (based on emails/hostnames), and the few that do get past that are quickly removed anyway.
Title: Re: Bots????
Post by: Juju on November 26, 2011, 06:22:26 pm
We should ban 163.com though. Most of the bots that goes through the filters comes from there.
Title: Re: Bots????
Post by: TIfanx1999 on November 26, 2011, 08:26:33 pm
Sorry for the absence, been offline for a few months, got back on and seen the new members bar with mostly names like qwer1234, four characters followed by four numbers, probably should ban them ahead of time?????

Yea, it happens. However most of the staff is quite active. Often times I'll go to ban a bot and it's already been smacked with a banhammer by someone else. O.O Thanks for mentioning it though, we are aware of this and keeping an eye out. :)
Title: Re: Bots????
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 26, 2011, 11:03:23 pm
I doubt the 4 members in a row starting exactly with 4 letters followed by 4 digits are legit users, though. However for the others they could be actual members. After all ralphdspam has a bot-ish nickname and he's still a real person. :P
Title: Re: Bots????
Post by: annoyingcalc on November 26, 2011, 11:10:17 pm
/me  says WHAT! he not a Spambot!?!?!? What! j/k
[/me]
Title: Re: Bots????
Post by: BalancedFury on November 27, 2011, 10:17:28 am
Im a spambot? >:D
I spam in the spam forums so I AM THY SPAMBOT!! JK
Title: Re: Bots????
Post by: Sorunome on November 27, 2011, 12:36:22 pm
/me hopes that he isn't a spambot
Title: Re: Bots????
Post by: BalancedFury on November 28, 2011, 07:27:50 pm
Who? :P
You, or me? D:
Title: Re: Bots????
Post by: Xeda112358 on November 28, 2011, 07:44:18 pm
My botishness has been brought into question on multiple occasions. I was even lead to believe I was a bot O.O

In all seriousness, though, UTI has been inundated with bots over the past few weeks. I have literally had to go through several hundred posts to delete all of the spam ones (so all except 8 or 9)
Title: Re: Bots????
Post by: AngelFish on November 28, 2011, 09:19:51 pm
Often times I'll go to ban a bot and it's already been smacked with a banhammer by someone else. O.O

/me actively trains for the ban time Olympics

:P
Title: Re: Bots????
Post by: annoyingcalc on November 28, 2011, 09:20:23 pm
Can I join? :P
Title: Re: Bots????
Post by: mrmprog on November 28, 2011, 10:27:11 pm
My botishness has been brought into question on multiple occasions. I was even lead to believe I was a bot O.O

--snip--
Er, how did that go?
Title: Re: Bots????
Post by: Xeda112358 on November 28, 2011, 10:40:54 pm
Well, I can now see the matrix and I have become sentient, that is all  :ninja: