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November 17, 2014 at 10:42 am #921926
Ugh. And they’ve really taken over the forum. That’s such a cruddy thing to do to people. 🙁
November 17, 2014 at 5:05 pm #921930Looks 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)
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https://www.redbubble.com/people/prezaurian?ref=artist_title_nameNovember 17, 2014 at 5:09 pm #921932But doesn’t everyone want to purchase random drugs off the internet? Anyone? (Sarcasm here)
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November 17, 2014 at 6:05 pm #921946But 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!
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https://www.redbubble.com/people/prezaurian?ref=artist_title_nameNovember 17, 2014 at 6:40 pm #921951Wow! 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
November 17, 2014 at 9:41 pm #921962Wow! 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!
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https://www.redbubble.com/people/prezaurian?ref=artist_title_nameAugust 14, 2015 at 5:26 pm #933256Got another spammer: “axelmayonnaise”
August 14, 2015 at 5:30 pm #933257Got another spammer: “axelmayonnaise”
I emailed Susie about it. Poor Susie!
September 13, 2015 at 10:02 am #934434Oh 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!
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September 13, 2015 at 1:41 pm #934436Oh 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*
September 13, 2015 at 4:17 pm #934438One slipped through later today – sending a message to Kiya. 🙁
Edit – It looks like Jennifer annihilated the bot. Yay Jennifer!
September 13, 2015 at 4:26 pm #934439There 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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My art: featherdust.comSeptember 13, 2015 at 5:07 pm #934442There 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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