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Jeremy Reimer

Posts: 9344

Posted on: 2011-06-10 11:48:39.000

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

Posts: 9344

Posted on: 2011-06-10 11:49:48.000

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

Posts: 10468

Posted on: 2011-06-28 03:02:24.000

You going to write a song?

:)

Jeremy Reimer

Posts: 9344

Posted on: 2011-06-28 22:12:43.000

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

Posts: 10080

Posted on: 2011-06-29 08:03:03.000

Is that the one unusual sign up, or have you had other suspect ones too?

Jeremy Reimer

Posts: 9344

Posted on: 2011-06-29 16:21:24.000

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

Posts: 6011

Posted on: 2011-07-04 20:19:17.000

Burn the witch!

Right?

Jeremy Reimer

Posts: 9344

Posted on: 2012-02-28 15:34:22.000

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.