"Spambot" Posts
Hardyboy
Posts: 5,904Chief of Staff
Hi everyone--a small request to make. When you encounter one (or several) of those obnoxious "spambot" posts--you know: a long, wordy posting with embedded links to sites for shoes or DVDs or Asian escort services--please be sure to hit REPORT. It will be dealt with as quickly as possible. Also, please do not reply to a spambot posting--either commenting on the post itself or ESPECIALLY quoting it in full. The 'bot posting is always deleted--and the poster banned--and you create just more stuff that has to be deleted. Also, there's hardly ever a real person behind the 'bot--so why bother? Thanks!
Vox clamantis in deserto
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Thanks for the info, I'm pretty stupid on all things internet and didn't know about
the report thing. But I'll do it in future
Well, you did kind of inspire this posting, TP, but I'd been planning to make this an announcement for some time. We've been getting a lot of those stupid 'bots and most people do report them. . .I'm just trying to keep people from clogging up the threads by trying to have a conversation with these things. Their entire purpose is to get you to their sites and to divest you of your money. Give yourself props for getting me to act, TP!
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I don't know about that one. . .could be. . .those bots are such a pain to get rid of, though. You can ban the user and block the e-mail address, but another one is just waiting to spring up. . .
Well the efforts at keeping the forum bot free is appreciated HB.
And that's me being honest, not trying to kiss your arse.
Vive le droit à la libre expression! Je suis Charlie!
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But I do miss those chinese escort girls.
Vive le droit à la libre expression! Je suis Charlie!
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Roger Moore 1927-2017
Anyways where was I? Oh yeah, it's ok TP (still chuckling) I think most the mod team consider the majority of my posts utter cack too )
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Point taken cupcake ;%
Vive le droit à la libre expression! Je suis Charlie!
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www.cancerresearchuk.org
no tea and Off to Bed
Ha!
I knew it!
I knew that Thunderpussy was not a real person but a spambot!
I admit, a funny spambot btw.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
me too :x
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Just a thought as it might stop this crap happening.
It's something that has been mentioned before....or you have to be "approved" before you can post...but anything like this can only be done by Si...so please just keep reporting them and I'll clear them up ASAP - thanks -{
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Yes...I've been the sole person in charge of ALL your comments/reports/complaints both for and against for nearly two years...
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
No...not one...I was being polite
Vive le droit à la libre expression! Je suis Charlie!
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Like I haven't enough to do as it is
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Thanx for the reply. We seem to be regularly visited by these bloody crap things too often.
Btw ... As I'm relatively new here - out of interest, who's Si? Is he the site 'owner'? Not sure I've seen owt of him on here (if he posts under that name).
We tend to get these spambots on a cycle....very active for awhile, then they lay off for a few months....guess its our turn again
Yes, Si is the owner of the site...he posts under the name of SiCo...although not very often.
That's putting it mildly, double oh no.
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Only reason I ask is that if we did want some sort of a registration security check at the outset (to stop these spambot posts), then how could we request this feature?
Si is always buried with work mate, he has very little time for AJB these days.
From what I understand, the maintenance and upkeep of AJB all comes out of Si's pocket. I absolutely love the fact AJB remains advert free.
We have a lot to thank Si for setting up and paying for AJB, but these days it seems you either wait a very long time for something to change, or you go with the flow and stick with what you got.
For Bond information, AJB comes second to none IMO.
Vive le droit à la libre expression! Je suis Charlie!
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www.cancerresearchuk.org
Couldn't have put it any better myself -{
Fully agree mate - have learnt so much about many areas relating to the whole Bond enterprise (naff term I know) from this site, as well as enjoying the banter & humour that goes on here. You're spot on regarding adverts ... Went back on to Facebook briefly the other day (schoolboy error) & it has been destroyed by that sort of crap.
Btw I hope my earlier post hasn't come across as a whinge, as it was most certainly not intended to be that, more a thought on how to deal with the annoyance of spambots. Having gleaned what has been said just, then their occasional presence is indeed a very small price to pay for having this site & the community that has been built.
Fair play to Si for keeping the place going in his absence. He's certainly got my full respect for doing so!