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xsecx
01-07-2011, 03:16 PM
seriously. fuck off.

rodrigo
01-07-2011, 06:53 PM
seriously. fuck off.

too many today?

Lifestyle_X
01-07-2011, 07:17 PM
In your mailbox or on the board or.. ?

xsecx
01-08-2011, 08:43 AM
there's about 10-20 an hour trying to sign up.

Lifestyle_X
01-08-2011, 09:58 AM
How do you keep 'em off ?

xsecx
01-08-2011, 09:59 AM
How do you keep 'em off ?

manually approve each person. so I'm deleting a lot of accounts now.

Lifestyle_X
01-08-2011, 10:26 AM
It's freaky that they can understand the captcha.

xsecx
01-08-2011, 07:51 PM
It's freaky that they can understand the captcha.

I don't think they do. I think they pay someone to register and once it's done then the spam bot gets let loose.

Lifestyle_X
01-19-2011, 12:08 PM
Do you still have a lot of problems? Cause I see there are a lot of new members that don't do anything, or am I wrong?

xsecx
01-19-2011, 12:48 PM
Do you still have a lot of problems? Cause I see there are a lot of new members that don't do anything, or am I wrong?

nope, it's that. there's about 100 a day.

rodrigo
01-19-2011, 12:51 PM
nope, it's that. there's about 100 a day.

do they at least work as visits or something that may generate cash from the ads on the site?

xsecx
01-19-2011, 01:36 PM
do they at least work as visits or something that may generate cash from the ads on the site?

man i hope so.

Lifestyle_X
01-19-2011, 02:01 PM
Aren't there any updates or plugins for vbulletin that can stop 'em?

xsecx
01-19-2011, 02:06 PM
Aren't there any updates or plugins for vbulletin that can stop 'em?

kinda, but it requires me to upgrade the software and that can be a pain. right now it hasn't reached that level of pain-threshold.

rodrigo
01-22-2011, 05:43 PM
talking about spambots, i got this comment today on my blog


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Is it very good if a vacuum seriously sucks?

xsecx
01-22-2011, 06:49 PM
talking about spambots, i got this comment today on my blog

well, it's a real concern.