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SpudmanWP
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 Posted: Jan 23, 2012 - 01:40 AM
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The General, Main, and F-16 Spotting & Photography boards are getting plastered with spam (hundreds of posts each). Since it's Sunday here, does anyone know how to get a hold of the Mods to stop this?
Maybe it's time for some Captcha in either the "join" function. |
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spazsinbad
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Posted: Jan 23, 2012 - 02:07 AM
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SpudmanWP
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Posted: Jan 23, 2012 - 02:14 AM
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| "Off-Topic" is getting spammed too. Oddly enough, the "F-16 Armament & Stores" only got hit once. |
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Posted: Jan 23, 2012 - 09:30 AM
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| Perhaps it's someone bitter about being banned from F-16.net? |
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Posted: Jan 23, 2012 - 11:58 AM
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Thanks guys. We seem to have taken a bit of a beating from overseas spammers. Trying to get ontop of it now.
spazsinbad wrote:
Except by 'Report this post to a moderator' (which I have done for the NFL spam) I have no idea. At moment and for several hours this board has been running like 'wet cement'. Good luck.
Not sure about the running speed at 'wet cement'. Anyone else having speed & loading issues navigating around the site??? |
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That_Engine_Guy
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Posted: Jan 23, 2012 - 05:04 PM
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Only when the spam attack was in progress.
I see there are still iPhone hacks being posted today?
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That_Engine_Guy
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Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 03:30 AM
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WOW they bots are spaming the forum to death tonight!?!
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Stefaan
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Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 09:22 AM
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Looks like we got it under control. One of the things you can do reduce spam is add a Captcha (where you have to decipher a hard-to-read number or word), but Captcha's are basically an annoying inconvenience for everyone, so we're taking some other measures.
thanks for your patience everyone!
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