Valodim's Thread

[Mog]

PM's not an issue for me. I still get the popups and all fine. However this bot shit is getting more annoying.

How about a simple "enter these randomly generated numbers" thing during registration. I believe that stumps most of them.

They're starting to use real people which is why some of the human verification techniques no longer work.  Requiring someone to answer a simple mugen related question might be a better option.  even something like Q: what is the focus of this forum? (answer must be lowercase with no spaces or punctuation)  A:  mugen

Other options are banning the email services they use, word filtering something in the links they always post, try to extort money out of them, etc.   I would think banning is preferable to deleting the accounts.  If you delete them, they can just come back with that same email to reregister. I set up a bots usergroup which requires that they change their password every day (and they get an email telling them so), but the usergroup still wont allow them to read or post.


 

[Iced]

I ban the emails and THEN delete the accounts. ( usually banning the mailservers if they are unique to them)

But yes, those are nigerian operated or something. They have a real guy doing the registration, then he turns on the automatized posting bot.

[Anjel]

Sometimes when I try to post with the quick post box I get this when I try to post.

You cannot post in the archive. Go to the regular forum instead.

[Bastard Wolf]

I've also had that problems several times before but never bothered to say something.

[Valodim]

really? do you ever view the archive?

[Anjel]

really? do you ever view the archive?

Barely, only when I need to look up an old thread or post, which I have not done in quite a while.

I got it again when I was about to post this post.

[Valodim]

Think I'm gonna do the smf2.0 change some time soon, and split off the archive stuff for good at that point, so won't go hunting for that one now

[Loona]

Think I'm gonna do the smf2.0 change some time soon, and split off the archive stuff for good at that point, so won't go hunting for that one now

It'll still be available, just not "interacting" with the rest of the primary forum's software, I take it?...

[Valodim]

precisely

[OZ]

Been getting this today:


It sets my zoom to highest when it happens. 

[Iced]

I cant pm shamrock.

Database Error: MySQL server has gone away
File: /srv/www/mfg/forumx/Sources/Subs.php
Line: 631

[Lasombra Demon]

+1

[Valodim]

It sets my zoom to highest when it happens. 

Not a zoom issue but css. Suppressed that warning, thanks for noticing

Iced: Tried something, might fix it.

[Iced]

took a while but it seems to have gone through lets see if he replies.

[Valodim]

Hm, the timeout is actually reasonable, no idea why it loads the page like forever until it reaches that timeout. Weird

I hate it when we have errors I have no idea about

[Loona]

The Search feature is failing

"An Error Has Occurred!
Unable to access the search deamon. "

[Rajaa Retired]

^I concur; I have received the same error.

[Valodim]

something thought it'd be a great idea to reserve 1GB of memory

fixed.

[MirageAtoli]

Profiles no longer show display name and user name. Was that intentional?

Displaying both names made it easy to keep track of who was who.

[Foobs]

You can still check them by hovering your mouse over their displayname.