I've disabled registration for new people until I approve them - tired of deleting spam from new users and 95% of them are overseas bots.
So this means I have to remember to approve new people. If you know you're gonna have a buddy sign up for the forums, drop me a PM so I don't forget.
Dee-Nee.com - the walled garden
Gantry, just wanted to give you the heads up. A buddy of mine should be joining soon. He's a HUGE golf fan and is always giving tips about improving swings and grips. If you see him, please let him join.
Thanks in advance!
>:(
Gantry, I have a friend from Germany who is joining. He's known for being careful when nibbling dreadlocks.
No krauts...
Quote from: Mike D. on 06/07/11, 07:24:29 AM
Gantry, I have a friend from Germany who is joining. He's known for being careful when nibbling dreadlocks.
Another case of expecting a joke pretty much exactly like this and laughing anyway.
Quote from: Nacho on 06/07/11, 10:17:11 AM
Quote from: Mike D. on 06/07/11, 07:24:29 AM
Gantry, I have a friend from Germany who is joining. He's known for being careful when nibbling dreadlocks.
Another case of expecting a joke pretty much exactly like this and laughing anyway.
this
I know a guy who wants to sign up. Says he's very interested in adult amature camps. PM me for more information.
We are now one step closer to a fascist regime
Gantry, I have a friend who specializes in erectile dysfunction. he might have some helpful pills and potions or something.
Great, just great. Who knows how many more members like clownshoes, MeganLandry69, and PizzaParty we're missing out on now...
BTW my techie friend was gonna sign up to share some tips on converting wmv files, but Gantry ruined it for all of you.
Clownshoes is a real live human.
Now it will take twice as long to get to 1,000,000 posts
When will the drug tests start?
I have a feeling that Reds is behind all of this nonsense.
Gantry probably should not have approved this guy
http://forums.dee-nee.com/index.php?topic=27131.msg0#new
I had to turn off approvals because Lips and I were literally getting 20-25 "new member joined" emails a fkn day. It's a complete spam fest, guess I have to get rid of all new members til it quiets down.
Closer to 40 today...
did you do a captcha and that's not working either?
Yep, it's worthless...
It's time to get Nightwulf involved again
BOOM!!!
I really hope this doesn't have a negative effect on our recruitment process.
159 accounts tried to sign up since I changed the settings yesterday. Fkn spam...
Quote from: Gantry on 06/13/11, 08:15:20 PM
159 accounts tried to sign up since I changed the settings yesterday. Fkn spam...
Please allow the Penis Extension guys to join.
276 accounts waiting approval
851 new members this month...I have a good feeling about this.
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I tried to remember why we had double the posts last June as this June and then I realized it was the World Cup, and retard was still around to shit on everyone's fun.
T & A threads have allowed me to move past Dick Manfredi and crack the top 10 list for posters.
They count non-approved accounts as members, what do you want from me?
Up to 435
Let them play. Let them play. Let them play. Let them play.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE FORUM IN JANUARY 2050?!? DO THE MAYANS/JON TITOR/DARKY KNOW?!?
487
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I'd help if ward would cooperate ...
WARD'D!!!
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Let them in. Open up the floodgates
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Disabled registration for now, I guess wulf & myself actually have to work on Dee-Nee 2.0 to make things happen.
what has caused this sudden surge of spam signups? does this happen to every forum at the same time, or do they just find a group of forums and target them for a while?
No clue, I have a feeling the captcha we used (put in the #s and letters to verify you are a human) was defeated recently.
My guess is that a lot of people thought now would be a good time to sign up, and Gantry is just blocking them all because he is a tyrant.
RBI boom coming in China
Quote from: Strassy on 06/27/11, 05:08:51 PM
what has caused this sudden surge of spam signups? does this happen to every forum at the same time, or do they just find a group of forums and target them for a while?
Yeah, someone broke the captcha.
We're a couple minor revisions behind on the forum software, but they recently released 2.0 which we've been waiting for for like two years. I tried installing a copy to start checking it out and migrating, but it's been so long since I've updated forum software I forgot some needed information to access ward (the forum server). I fail as a computer nerd.
I finally remember what it is, see pm
2.0 imminent?
BeeJay is flying up with the software, then we're installing ASAP. Stay tuned...
Quote from: GDavis on 06/28/11, 08:17:54 AM
2.0 imminent?
The problem is that I don't know what 2.0 looks like. We'll likely check it out with a test install. The forum theme we use by default has kind of been the black sheep of SMF for a while now. If it's gone in 2.0 or heavily changed, we'll probably just stay on 1.x and find a solution to the spam account problem.
I'd prefer to go balls deep into 2.0 and see what happens. The worst that could happen is that nightwulf has to recompile the internets.
The forum looks kind of stale anyway. I just go girlyman.
Typical IT people. So afraid to make any real changes they just sit on their asses and make do with whatever shitty technology they already have. It's no wonder we're losing out to the Japanese!
I hope nightwulf doesn't hit the throw button too quickly while changing to 2.0
As a wise man once said: Time to spice things up a bit
but NOT with sage!
Dee-Nee's firewall:
You people say that now but you'll bitch up a storm. Go here (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php) and get a taste of the new theme.
it doesn't look that much different...
Embrace change, Gantry.
ready when you are
Quote from: BDawk on 06/28/11, 02:58:31 PM
Typical IT people. So afraid to make any real changes they just sit on their asses and make do with whatever shitty technology they already have. It's no wonder we're losing out to the Japanese!
Yeah right. We make the slightest change (e.g. forgetting to boldface thread titles) and you people act like the sky is falling.