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Title: Dear Moderators,
Post by: Teh Shadic on July 09, 2013, 02:14:54 PM
I am not a bot. Please stahp deleting mi account. Yew making me crey.

~abincray who is craying
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: TheSlender on July 09, 2013, 02:17:37 PM
Uhhh... what?
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: jkid101094 on July 09, 2013, 02:22:48 PM
Did I seriously do it again? >.<

You should probably change your name, sweetheart. =\
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: Teh Shadic on July 09, 2013, 02:24:41 PM
Quote from: TheSlender on July 09, 2013, 02:17:37 PM
Uhhh... what?

http://soniczone.net/forum/index.php?topic=30647 (http://soniczone.net/forum/index.php?topic=30647)
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: TheSlender on July 09, 2013, 02:32:47 PM
Nozzle deleted all accounts on the forums that were made today and yesterday. Speak to him bud.
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: Hakudamashi on July 09, 2013, 03:18:40 PM
Nozzle?
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: TheGameNinja on July 09, 2013, 04:41:41 PM
Nazo. And that's not something that we should be doing, only ban an account after you've checked something it's posted.
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: jkid101094 on July 09, 2013, 04:46:30 PM
Quote from: TheGameNinja on July 09, 2013, 04:41:41 PM
Nazo. And that's not something that we should be doing, only ban an account after you've checked something it's posted.
There's no need to make a tedious process even more tedious. If people helped me ban bots I'd be fine but I've been banning waves of these fuckers by myself for a long time.
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: TheGameNinja on July 09, 2013, 04:49:18 PM
Quote from: jkid101094 on July 09, 2013, 04:46:30 PM
There's no need to make a tedious process even more tedious. If people helped me ban bots I'd be fine but I've been banning waves of these fuckers by myself for a long time.

I ban them from the unread topics page, it only adds a couple seconds and makes sure that doesn't happen.
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: jkid101094 on July 09, 2013, 05:08:55 PM
Quote from: TheGameNinja on July 09, 2013, 04:49:18 PM
I ban them from the unread topics page, it only adds a couple seconds and makes sure that doesn't happen.
What I do is I click the unread topics page and read the list of usernames. If I recognize the user names as words I leave them alone but if it's all gibberish or random letters and numbers I delete it. If I'm not sure I check the topic title.
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: Hakudamashi on July 09, 2013, 05:36:49 PM
Quote from: jkid101094 on July 09, 2013, 04:46:30 PM
There's no need to make a tedious process even more tedious. If people helped me ban bots I'd be fine but I've been banning waves of these fuckers by myself for a long time.
I'm sorry I'm not on all the time...
But I do what TGN does.
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: jkid101094 on July 09, 2013, 05:46:40 PM
Quote from: windlessusher on July 09, 2013, 05:36:49 PM
I'm sorry I'm not on all the time...
But I do what TGN does.
I understand that but either way my job is already tedious enough as is.
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: Elija2 on July 09, 2013, 06:10:30 PM
Why don't you just turn the captcha back on?
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: jkid101094 on July 09, 2013, 06:39:59 PM
Apparently Maddie was wrong and it's been on.
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: Ye Olde Swagfag on July 09, 2013, 07:33:58 PM
... eeeeeeh I've kinda always wanted to be a moderator.
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: jkid101094 on July 09, 2013, 07:34:59 PM
Quote from: LeaflameSD64 on July 09, 2013, 07:33:58 PM
>tfw never get to be mod
You should ask John. That's literally all Slender did and look at him.
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: Meme Master Flex on July 10, 2013, 12:47:47 AM
In response to what was said earlier,

Yes, I do mass ban, but for the reason that it makes all your lives easier, I deselect accounts that are civilian accounts and and I have set search terms, like, recently, there were about 200+ bot signups in the past few days, so I got rid of the accounts that had bot-like names that registered between now and two days ago, have 1-5 posts, and ID range (The number in your URL when you view a profile) and other specific terms so I don't accidentally delete a persons account.

Abincray is a name that sounds like a bots name, the fact that you used a picture that's similar to a default picture or is doesn't help, sorry to say.

Just the other day I deleted about 3 pages of spam bots on the off topic/spam section, and even before posting this I deleted 3 bot accounts. I know some of you think I don't do anything about bots, but I really do, I just don't do it one by one so it's not really notice, nor do I really mention them.
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: Princessofthechaosemerald on July 10, 2013, 04:35:49 AM
Quote from: jkid101094 on July 09, 2013, 06:39:59 PM
Apparently Maddie was wrong and it's been on.
It's been on? What?
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: shadowDOESrock on July 10, 2013, 05:20:47 AM
Do we have a mail account confirmation?

You know, where you get a account activation link sent to your mail and you have to click it?
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: jkid101094 on July 10, 2013, 02:54:13 PM
Yes, but that doesn't stop the bots.
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: Hakudamashi on July 14, 2013, 03:46:51 AM
They seem to have calmed down...
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: Meme Master Flex on July 14, 2013, 04:37:04 AM
Quote from: Hakudamashi on July 14, 2013, 03:46:51 AM
They seem to have calmed down...

John fixed the captcha. On the other version, it actually wasn't there despite what was said. Hence all the bots.
Title: Re: Dear Moderators,
Post by: Hakudamashi on July 14, 2013, 07:14:39 AM
And we all lived happily ever after.