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  • #921926
    Lauren
    Participant

      Ugh. And they’ve really taken over the forum. That’s such a cruddy thing to do to people. 🙁

      #921930
      Prezaurian
      Participant

        Looks like another bot. Drugs and surveys. Bleh. Okay, well I’m not going to click on any of those forum entries. We’ll just have to be patient and wait for one of our fantastic forum mods to muck out the forum stalls. (lol, so sorry I just used a stable cleaning analogy there…but bots sure do seem like poop in a forum so I thought it fit)

        #921932
        MandBsMom
        Participant

          But doesn’t everyone want to purchase random drugs off the internet? Anyone? (Sarcasm here)

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          #921946
          Prezaurian
          Participant

            But doesn’t everyone want to purchase random drugs off the internet? Anyone? (Sarcasm here)

            Lol. Dang, and here I thought I was saving 15 minutes by just listening to the tv adverts for them. I could have been saving 7 minutes instead!

            #921951
            Susie
            Keymaster

              Wow! That one made a LOT of posts. Took a while to remove it too. Thanks for letting us know! I found that I couldn’t actually view any of the pages – anyone who notices spam and emails us about it – the helpful thing for us to find it quickly is the forum user name. You can email me at susie@windstoneeditions.com

              #921962
              Prezaurian
              Participant

                Wow! That one made a LOT of posts. Took a while to remove it too. Thanks for letting us know! I found that I couldn’t actually view any of the pages – anyone who notices spam and emails us about it – the helpful thing for us to find it quickly is the forum user name. You can email me at susie@windstoneeditions.com

                Spotted another one. Sent an e-mail about it with the forum user name.

                Edit: Looks like you guys already spotted them. Sorry about that!

                #933256

                Got another spammer: “axelmayonnaise”

                #933257
                etruscan
                Participant

                  Got another spammer: “axelmayonnaise”

                  I emailed Susie about it. Poor Susie!

                  #934434
                  Kim
                  Participant

                    Oh my goodness, more spam bots with a million postings under Ask Melody! I thought there was something wrong with my computer when I saw the Chinese writing! Please delete them!

                    Looking for rainbow or pink & teal grab bags!

                    #934436

                    Oh my goodness, more spam bots with a million postings under Ask Melody! I thought there was something wrong with my computer when I saw the Chinese writing! Please delete them!

                    There were so many spam posts when I signed in, I couldn’t even see this posting. 🙂

                    They should all be down now, but we may get hit again since it was multiple users. I’ve sent an email to some of the more knowledgeable admins to help with blocking the IPs to hopefully prevent more fake accounts from the same group.

                    There were over 1000 bad posts. I’ve never seen that many before!

                    *crossing my fingers*

                    #934438
                    etruscan
                    Participant

                      One slipped through later today – sending a message to Kiya. 🙁

                      Edit – It looks like Jennifer annihilated the bot. Yay Jennifer!

                      #934439
                      Jennifer
                      Keymaster

                        There were so many that it filled up the log; I couldn’t see “far enough back” to see if any of the users remain or not. I am doing drywall today and canning tomatoes so I will not be able to monitor it super well… the best thing would be to email me the username of any spam that might pop back up. The best place to email me, today, that I can get to the fastest is nambroth@gmail.com

                        Thanks guys and sorry about this!

                        Might need to give the folks at the Factory, that have control of such things, a nudge to make sure their Captcha widget is up to date… That’s something that I think only the full admin on their side can do as I can only access the permissions.

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                        #934442

                        There were so many that it filled up the log; I couldn’t see “far enough back” to see if any of the users remain or not. I am doing drywall today and canning tomatoes so I will not be able to monitor it super well… the best thing would be to email me the username of any spam that might pop back up. The best place to email me, today, that I can get to the fastest is nambroth@gmail.com

                        Thanks guys and sorry about this!

                        Might need to give the folks at the Factory, that have control of such things, a nudge to make sure their Captcha widget is up to date… That’s something that I think only the full admin on their side can do as I can only access the permissions.

                        Huh i missed all of it, you guys are fast!

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                        #934454
                        JynXx
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                          And again.. jeez o.o

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                          #935688
                          Kim
                          Participant

                            Yep, again. Is there a way to prevent these people or bots from signing up new accounts on this site or making them enter codes or something before posting all this spam?

                            Looking for rainbow or pink & teal grab bags!

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