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My return and ... filthy Spambots!

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 2:11 pm
by Serimah
Yep, as you may have noticed I actually returned after several months of timeout. I'm not going to explain the whole disaster in-depth however I thought I might as well
tell you what my life consisted of.
As I told some of you, I had to spend lots and lots of time at the hospital due to 2 mostly non-working kidneys. Dialysis was a daily grind for quite a while.
However, at some point my body decided that both kidneys are just no good anymore. So I ended up being stuck at those machines almost permanently.
I desperately needed a new kidney, but the waiting list is long as you can imagine. However, my own boyfriend came to my rescue when my conditioned further
deteriorated. To make a long story short... I now got a new kidney and finally the ability to live a relatively normal everyday life :)

Thanks to that I can finally traumatize you with some fresh SCP/Slender Porn among other pleasant things. :106:


Also....as the title suggests I really felt the need to address those absolutely horrid things spamming the forums.
Is there any way of making the sign-up process more difficult for them? Like those hard to read images with letters, numbers or simple questions.

If that's not possible either, how about giving 1-2 members the ability to ban/delete posts and/or bots? I realize that it's not possible for Steel and such to be around all the time,
hence me thinking that you really need a solution. I kept an eye on it for a while now and it's getting worse.

Re: My return and ... filthy Spambots!

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 2:52 pm
by MOV_Games
I dont think we have met. I'm glad youre okay now though, it seems you've been through a lot lately.

With the Bots, yeah, we are basically at war with them at the moment. There has been talks about a required question for signing up, i'm not sure whats happening about it at the moment. I dont think we need any more people with Admin powers though, Glitch, Sparks and Irontaco seem to be around fairly often.

Re: My return and ... filthy Spambots!

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 3:26 pm
by Serimah
Nope, I don't think we've met either :) Many people I see at the moment signed up just around the time I got permanently stuck at the hospital.
But nice to meet you and thanks for the sympathy ;)

As for the bots, yeah I've noticed the War as of late. And I can imagine the Mods being really annoyed by it now. I really hope that the Sign-Up procedure will be changed,
because as time goes by those things get just ridiculous.

Re: My return and ... filthy Spambots!

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 3:29 pm
by Agent Shlocky
That's quite a story! I'm glad that it could all work out, and that you're feeling better :D . But, uh yeah the bots are getting pretty bad.

Re: My return and ... filthy Spambots!

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 3:40 pm
by Agent Shlocky
Juicy wrote:I've reported MANY bot posts without any mod around here (one of them right now), I think that we need a few "semi mod-like" users

And a better registration process too, look at this: Total members 3587

Dem lazy kidneys
Yeah, you beat me to the Spanish(?) one hehe.

Re: My return and ... filthy Spambots!

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 4:27 pm
by Glitch
Steelpoint had to disable new users from creating new topics because of this, before hand there was just spam everywhere.

Re: My return and ... filthy Spambots!

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 5:07 pm
by Steelpoint
The whole spambot situation is significantly a lot better now then prior, now we only get the occasional spam post in a thread and not the several dozen spam threads.

Re: My return and ... filthy Spambots!

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 5:22 pm
by Serimah
Steelpoint wrote:The whole spambot situation is significantly a lot better now then prior, now we only get the occasional spam post in a thread and not the several dozen spam threads.
Goodness, that must have been hell during that time. You have my admiration for being able to put up with that bullsh*t :shock:

And yep, Juicy... dem lazy kidneys suck my non-existant balls :096:

Re: My return and ... filthy Spambots!

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 9:55 pm
by Irontaco
Welcome back Serimah!

Yeah, the bots aren't too much of a trouble now. The mods are usually around so any bot posts will be erased.

Re: My return and ... filthy Spambots!

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 9:59 pm
by Serimah
Thanks guys, seriously :)

You can't imagine how happy I am to finally have an everyday life without fearing another kidney failure or potentially end up at the ICU again.
But as I said, I'll gladly get back to spreading my glorious insanity across the forums :D