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Post by Wonderlicious » October 16th, 2006, 3:20 pm

ShyViolet wrote:Neat sig! :wink: This scene keeps going through my head for some reason! :)
Thanks. And you can fly to a Magic Kingdom, Violet. As long as (like your name suggests) you're not shy enough to be scared sitting on a plane to Orlando International Airport between Rosie O'Donnel and Bill Cosby. ;)
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Post by ShyViolet » October 16th, 2006, 5:44 pm

:wink:


That's sweet. :)
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Post by Meg » November 17th, 2006, 4:25 pm

I'm having trouble uploading a new avatar...The size is correct, and the format is JPG - am I doing anything wrong?

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Post by James » December 7th, 2006, 8:54 am

We will be doing a purge of the forum membership list soon and then as an ongoing project. Any current member who has never posted will be automatically deleted, and members who have 5 or less posts and have not posted in many months may also be deleted at our discretion.

After this initial purge new members who do not post after one month will be deleted. This action is due to the increase in spambots who get past our security measures and register hundreds of fake accounts with links to spam content.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

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Post by James » December 7th, 2006, 9:48 am

9:00am:
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9:45am:
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All I did was delete users who have NEVER posted! By my estimate over 90% were spambot registrations!

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Post by Ben » December 7th, 2006, 11:51 am

Wow!

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Post by James » December 7th, 2006, 12:00 pm

It's now Noon and 3 more spambots have already registered! Just proves the necessity of this occasional purge!

Go to the MEMBERLIST above and change the sort order to JOINED DATE and the order to DESCENDING to play along at home! ;)

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Post by Daniel » December 7th, 2006, 2:53 pm

:lol: James! Wow, now its like a new forum with so many spambots deleted!

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Post by bawpcwpn » December 7th, 2006, 10:17 pm

Holy heck that is a lot! Suddenly i feel refreshed hehehe!
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Post by Ben » December 8th, 2006, 2:53 am

Shame they're not "fembots"! ;)

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Post by Dacey » December 8th, 2006, 10:39 am

This is a good move, guys. Keep it up.
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Post by Meg » December 8th, 2006, 2:33 pm

Quality, not quantity! :P

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Post by animated_guy » December 10th, 2006, 12:56 am

Meg wrote:Quality, not quantity! :P
agreed!
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Post by ShyViolet » December 10th, 2006, 9:42 pm

Yeah, I had a feeling about that, since it always said that there were one thousand and something users and it didn't seem like there could be THAT many compared to how many actually post. (not that it's impossable, mind you, it just seemed improbable. :wink:)

Also, maybe you guys could do that thing where a potential member has to type in a letter/number code of distorted letters that are displayed--that's what a lot of websites do now as a spambot is unable to do this.


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Post by Ben » December 10th, 2006, 9:46 pm

We <I>do</I> have a <I>lot</I> of people who read but don't post too. They just like to watch. ;)

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