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Interests: Astronomy, newLISP, Science Fiction.
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Did Monarch just get its first spam registration?
| Author | Message | |
| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Fri Jun 10 11:48:39 2011 | |
 Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 | I have no idea if this is a person or a bot, but I’ve never heard of them before. User: ESTELA22Hayes If it is a bot, it’s an important milestone in the history of the Monarch content engine. It might mean that I have to actually code up that kitten captcha that I talk about in the registration screen. We shall see! | |
| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Fri Jun 10 11:49:48 2011 | |
Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 | An additional note: Interestingly, Googling "ESTELA22Hayes" did not bring up any results. Usually spam bots register on many forums at once, so the username would appear in a Google search. But maybe this name was randomly generated. The mystery continues! | |
| AllYorBaseRBelong2Us | Posted on: Tue Jun 28 03:02:24 2011 | |
 Joined: Sun Dec 5 06:23:12 2010 | You going to write a song?
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| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Tue Jun 28 22:12:43 2011 | |
Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 | Ah, a song.. that brings back memories... I still listen to "APK is a dick" on my iPhone occasionally! And Drunken Woe is Madan! That seems like a lifetime ago... | |
| OscarWilde | Posted on: Wed Jun 29 08:03:03 2011 | |
 Joined: Wed Jan 5 12:25:56 2011 | Is that the one unusual sign up, or have you had other suspect ones too? | |
| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Wed Jun 29 16:21:24 2011 | |
Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 | That was the first. Now there is a second: DART Consulting, a SEO spammer. I may have to put up the kitten kaptcha after all. | |
| Harby | Posted on: Mon Jul 4 20:19:17 2011 | |
 Joined: Mon Nov 29 16:45:16 2010 | Burn the witch! Right? | |
| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Tue Feb 28 15:34:22 2012 | |
Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 | Wow, the trickle turned into a flood. A bunch of spammers created users all with a random username and the same (randomly-created) password. I had to create a delete user function just to clean them up. None of them had any posts, but I think spammers like to "farm" accounts on forums and only start spamming some time later. In any case I have deleted all the accounts and I am thinking about finally putting up a random kitten captcha thingy for registering new accounts. | |
