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03-30-16, 03:08 AM
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Holy Spamoly
Someone is going to be busy for a while. 
It's out of control...5 1/2 pages and rolling along.
It's out of control...5 1/2 pages and rolling along.
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03-30-16, 05:33 AM
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and the worst of it is, you can't read it. Someone had noting better to do last night!
03-30-16, 05:39 AM
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Most likely they have used some type of auto spam software, not the first time its happened, here, or in other forums. And, yes, its a ball to clean those up, time consuming and you have to stop it at the IP address, or at least you used to. Good luck and happy hunting to the staff.
Edit: And, its almost gone, well done staff! From what I could find, they have hit a slew of gaming and forums across the 'net, we just happened to be one of the lucky ones. probably some nefarious Chinese military intelligence outfit that figured BF must be the source of the US intelligence community's finest minds.
Bill
Edit: And, its almost gone, well done staff! From what I could find, they have hit a slew of gaming and forums across the 'net, we just happened to be one of the lucky ones. probably some nefarious Chinese military intelligence outfit that figured BF must be the source of the US intelligence community's finest minds.
Bill
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03-30-16, 05:43 AM
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Originally Posted by NYMXer
and the worst of it is, you can't read it. Someone had noting better to do last night!
03-30-16, 05:46 AM
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I have banned approximately 30 spambots and deleted over 1000 spam posts just this morning.
More to go...
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03-30-16, 05:47 AM
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Originally Posted by cb400bill
I have banned approximately 30 spambots and deleted over 1000 spam posts just this morning.
More to go...
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03-30-16, 05:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Machka
Good luck!
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03-30-16, 05:50 AM
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Originally Posted by cb400bill
I have banned approximately 30 spambots and deleted over 1000 spam posts just this morning.
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03-30-16, 05:53 AM
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Since no one was commenting on it I thought I was the only one seeing it. Glad it's fixed. Might have actually had to do something constructive today otherwise.
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03-30-16, 06:11 AM
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Saw it.
My head started to hurting.
Thought it was just bad vision from a "hang over".
Then realized I don't drink.
Great clean-up!!!!!
My head started to hurting.
Thought it was just bad vision from a "hang over".
Then realized I don't drink.
Great clean-up!!!!!
03-30-16, 06:20 AM
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I'm on other forums and it happens there too ... at about the same time of day too. Sadly, it's a pretty common occurrence on forums.
03-30-16, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by cb400bill
I have banned approximately 30 spambots and deleted over 1000 spam posts just this morning.
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03-30-16, 11:37 AM
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I mean, come on, what could someone possibly get out of programming a computer so spam like that? It's even is a foreign language, so whatever they are selling, most of us would not be buying due to the language barrier.
I guess, in general, it must be worth the effort somewhere...
I guess, in general, it must be worth the effort somewhere...
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Well done Moderators! Thank you for all the hard work!
03-30-16, 12:03 PM
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Thank you, @cb400bill and others! 
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03-30-16, 12:12 PM
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Aw, man! I missed the excitement. 
Thanks Bill!
Thanks Bill!
03-30-16, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by NYMXer
I mean, come on, what could someone possibly get out of programming a computer so spam like that? It's even is a foreign language, so whatever they are selling, most of us would not be buying due to the language barrier.
I guess, in general, it must be worth the effort somewhere...
I guess, in general, it must be worth the effort somewhere...
To me, these looked like the interruption types, but I am not a computer/internet expert by any means. I cannot write code, do not understand it at all, and don't want to either. I was a moderator at a dirt bike forum several years ago, and I quickly found out I didn't know enough to even do that job.
Kudos to Bill and the others that put out this fire.
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03-30-16, 05:32 PM
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03-30-16, 05:39 PM
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I saw it this morning on my way out, what a mess. Thanks to all who helped stop it and clean it up.
Cheers!
Cheers!
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Originally Posted by qcpmsame
i was a moderator at a dirt bike forum several years ago, and I quickly found out I didn't know enough to even do that job.
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Originally Posted by NYMXer
I mean, come on, what could someone possibly get out of programming a computer so spam like that? It's even is a foreign language, so whatever they are selling, most of us would not be buying due to the language barrier.
I guess, in general, it must be worth the effort somewhere...
I guess, in general, it must be worth the effort somewhere...
03-30-16, 06:57 PM
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Still kicking.
Speaking on behalf of the moderation team, we would like to thank you all for being patient with this mess.
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I just signed on and there are a bunch of new spam threads....... persistent buggers!
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Originally Posted by BlazingPedals
Aw, man! I missed the excitement. Thanks Bill!
Thanks Bill!
