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That's two bots in the last hour that're clearly related. We could have an epidemic on our hands if someone doesn't have a method of containing it. I'm not sure if banning IP addresses is something that people do here.

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This was the first of them. They're definitely from the same source, so if anyone on the administration has the authority to ban IP addresses or something, you might want to find out if these bots are stupid enough to use the same one or not.


Fear not, the mods are embattled war veterans against spambots. I really wish I could find my screenshot of what the guild was like not too long ago when we literally had a bot epidemic that resulted in this very thread's formation and the addition of the mod's nuclear button.

It does seem, however, like there's a mod activity hole at this time of evening, which makes sense I suppose... late for most of the western world or too early to particularly care.
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Good to know. As I said in another topic, I would've taken steps to have a section like this put up right from the beginning on my forums if they weren't private/invite-only and basically impossible to join without my validating (since that prevented bots and the closest thing we ever had to a problem was some idiots trying to attack/hack us, which got shutdown rather hilariously). At the very least, there's only been two of these related bots, though I'm not gonna assume there won't ever be more of them.
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Asshole bot flooding a forum I was currently using to have a pretty decent OOC discussion in.
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You beat me to it by about 15 seconds. Well played.

Hopefully someone deals with this soon, because these particular bots are a lot nastier and more trigger happy than the ones I've seen on the site so far when I was around for their spam. They've flooded a couple of the channels already in the short period of activity they've had.

Here's also hoping they don't accidentally delete the really decent OOC discussion that's been going on in one of the channels while they're getting rid of all those spam topics, since the discussion could get buried in the middle of spam if they strike again after someone posts a reply.
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Kleeeee!

Sorry. Found that funny for some reason. Meh. Nuke the bastard anyways.
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NO I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT HOW SPORTS RESULTS ARE CLOSELY INVESTIGATED

(that's what the spambots are saying)
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(As you can tell, I'm so bored that I'm watching out for the spambots, lol.)

EDIT: One more - roleplayerguild.com/users/vehlhylh2540
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roleplayerguild.com/users/kimtaechung39

roleplayerguild.com/users/zhusyung77889

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roleplayerguild.com/users/clexying17

roleplayerguild.com/users/jungkimtae01

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roleplayerguild.com/users/thangzoon

roleplayerguild.com/users/dfdfddyrth65

roleplayerguild.com/users/ojsdgrqesxcvcb

roleplayerguild.com/users/gfgfgfgfgfd44

roleplayerguild.com/users/momon9012

Note sorting was going slow, so thought I'd keep a tab on these things for a little while. There really does need to be a system added in for preventing these bots from registering. To get this many of them in such a short time really is no surprise with such a public site, but there's plenty of methods used on forums to keep this sort of thing from even happening.
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Note sorting was going slow, so thought I'd keep a tab on these things for a little while. There really does need to be a system added in for preventing these bots from registering. To get this many of them in such a short time really is no surprise with such a public site, but there's plenty of methods used on forums to keep this sort of thing from even happening.


I think Mahz had tried to implement a Captcha of sorts but it wasn't very useful, from what I can recall. Until then, I guess we will just have to catch them, report them here, and let the mods nuke them accordingly.

Freshly out of oven:
roleplayerguild.com/users/fdr455
roleplayerguild.com/users/thangzoon0276
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That's unusual, because the ones used on InvisionFree boards seem incredibly reliable. Though to be fair, all of my forums were on a major lockdown in the first place, but in all the time I was on forums outside of the ones I created I don't recall ever actually seeing any of them, so I'm really not sure what was causing it to not be effective.

Edit: Things still aren't going too well on my end, so here's more of the things.

roleplayerguild.com/users/mkyung407

roleplayerguild.com/users/xiaobei005

roleplayerguild.com/users/basolron22

roleplayerguild.com/users/gejjfjj33
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