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for the last few months the forum has seen a dramatic increase in the number of spam accounts. a few weeks ago i identified one possible reason - i had forgotten to add rel="nofollow" to user profile links, which stops them from being useful to spammers. but they either did not realize or did not care that i had closed this hole, and the registrations continued. more recently, we have also been seeing bots that post spam threads as well as spam profiles (i am aware that these "bots" are probably real people).

with the recent server move, performance problems from carrying around all these tens of thousands of bot accounts became more apparent, and i decided to trim older user accounts that never interacted with the forum in any meaningful way, even though the bot epidemic is not yet over. so if your account got deleted, sorry, but you can just reregister.

i am also experimenting with very selective filtering to prevent the thread-posting bots from successfully posting. obviously let me know (via email if you have to, njahnke@gmail.com) if you are encountering a problem with that, like it won't let you post or something. thanks.
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So you're filtering out every thread title that contains Korean letters ? Tongue
haha. it's much, much more selective than that.
Thanks nate, I hope all of the spambots self-terminate soon, they're quiet annoying. :\
I'm addicted to games
Is the nofollow just because that means user profiles won't get indexed by google?
the profiles get indexed but the links people put in them are excluded from consideration for pagerank for the linked sites. i think it's called "nofollow" because the search engine is not supposed to follow the link. but i think like googlebot follows it anyway and then throws away the result for some reason. maybe in case it's a new discovery. as is typical with googlebot no one really knows for sure.
Thanks nate, the bots were getting really annoying considering how I reliant I am on the unread messages page.
Everyday is puppies and sunshine...
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So you're filtering out every thread title that contains Korean letters ?

Gold star, my friend.  Cheesy
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MatrixTN: 2016-03-21 01:40:28 am
You got a deletion wish?
Got a bunch right now, and 4 of them are still on.

Edit: Thank you, come again.
Learning to Stream
Malicious little twats, all of them.
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DJGrenola: 2016-03-21 08:46:09 pm
guffaw
I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

good luck with the countermeasures. we've been here before.
Shouldn't we get some crack Unreal Tournament or Quake player to sort the bots out? I just beat Q3 on Nightmare...
I haven't seen any massive amounts of korean letters recently, so I think you got them. Thanks nate!
Sliding on the PSX is hard guys!
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Shouldn't we get some crack Unreal Tournament or Quake player to sort the bots out? I just beat Q3 on Nightmare...

Yes. Especially with Guns. and On VR mode so we can see what the Bots look like Wink
EDIT: I mean On QVR.
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MatrixTN: 2016-06-12 05:51:49 pm
You got a deletion wish?
Couple bot threads in PC now.

vv Removed, thank you come again.
Dragon Power Supreme
banned/deleted, cheers.