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Post by dhoom on Mar 4, 2011 7:56:29 GMT
Yep, at around 11:30 or so, M4 and I noticed this obnoxious bot posting on lots of threads with advertisements regarding worthless and stupid football jerseys and other un-forum related apparel. "Her" username is zhouchaojie. I have reason to believe it's a bot due to stupid and unnecessary off-topic posts. Screenshots:    It continues on. If a mod could at some point read this and stop this before it gets more posts than half the forum, I'm sure we would all be happy. Merci pour votre heure.
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Post by secret on Mar 4, 2011 8:04:58 GMT
what kind of bot is this?!
It never wrote the exact same thing twice
although the content is the same
Those bot makers are getting crazier and crazier
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Post by Anonymousperson5 on Mar 4, 2011 8:50:12 GMT
"She" already has 38 posts... Someone really needs to ban "her".
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Post by QwertyuiopThePie on Mar 5, 2011 3:49:49 GMT
I am assuming Veers already did.
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Post by Fringe Pioneer on Mar 5, 2011 4:17:58 GMT
I had already taken care of that a little while ago, banning the IP and deleting all but two posts for evidence, which are in the Spam Board. Apparently, the evidence is unnecessary seeing that we have a screenshot...
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Post by Rabidbadger on Mar 15, 2011 16:40:13 GMT
Shouldn't this be in 'About The Forum'?
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Post by kuraikiba on Mar 20, 2011 14:42:04 GMT
These appeared all the time on the FSG Forums. Though, usually it was porn links.
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Post by QwertyuiopThePie on Mar 20, 2011 23:00:21 GMT
Yes, the great bot invasion of 2006. They completely destroyed the old Block Action forums I used to frequent.
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Post by kuraikiba on Mar 20, 2011 23:25:28 GMT
They still roam around FSG sometimes.
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Post by Phantom Zero on Mar 23, 2011 12:32:59 GMT
Yup, no purpose and no one to Troll/ agravate. Meaningless to put them there...
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Post by soandso2 on Apr 25, 2011 6:46:36 GMT
It appears that the bot might have been set to copy exact articles of a football ezene. ((or whatever it's called)) Very strange... My guess is that someone looked for forums with 'ball' in the name and dispatched it here, not looking at the contents of the forum. If this were sports site, it might have taken longer to notice.... But it's long gone now, since this topic is sort of old.
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Post by GloveParty on May 1, 2011 13:57:38 GMT
...Well dang. I couldn't have guessed that O.o
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Post by Alonso on May 2, 2011 11:59:10 GMT
Who set it up, and check out the email to see if it is real.
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Post by QwertyuiopThePie on May 2, 2011 13:21:25 GMT
Old news. Even if there was anyone on that email they'd be gone by the two months that have passed since it was here.
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Post by Alonso on May 2, 2011 18:44:43 GMT
Yeah, but still you might find out if they are a bot.
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Post by soandso2 on May 2, 2011 19:08:28 GMT
I had only made the post to give some idea on how that bot might have worked.
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Post by QwertyuiopThePie on May 2, 2011 22:15:30 GMT
I don't mean you, soandso, although that is probably how it works. I mean, in regards to shkids, that it's been over two months now and that doesn't matter. We already know it was a bot (no human would advertise football in that manner on the dan-ball forums), and it isn't worth taking extra efforts to confirm the botness of a long-banned spammer.
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Post by Alonso on May 3, 2011 20:00:35 GMT
touche.
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