Gantry = FAIL

[Nacho]

What the fuck is going on around here?

[BeefMaster]

I notice that the Flame Man aviator is popular with the spammers.

[BeefMaster]

NEW SPAMMER INCOMING

[Gantry]

The IPs are all different, I changed the settings so new members need approval from me first. 

[Nacho]

Do you plan to administer a literacy test or institute some sort of joiners' tax?  What a tyrant...

[BeefMaster]

The IPs are all different

This surprises me - I assumed it was all coming from the same place, although I suppose it's likely one master spammer with a group of minions.

If the personal approval gets tedious, you could try creating an RBI-related captcha or security question - even something simple like "What RBI team does Reggie Jackson play for?" would probably deter spammers (they can do text captchas, but I doubt they would bother to do actual research), and if we have non-RBI-playing friends who want to join, they can just ask us for the answer.

[Gantry]

Going to ask random questions from rdub's trivia game at Dee-Nee fest St. Louis 2008

[Gantry]

The IPs are all different

This surprises me - I assumed it was all coming from the same place, although I suppose it's likely one master spammer with a group of minions.

If the personal approval gets tedious, you could try creating an RBI-related captcha or security question - even something simple like "What RBI team does Reggie Jackson play for?" would probably deter spammers (they can do text captchas, but I doubt they would bother to do actual research), and if we have non-RBI-playing friends who want to join, they can just ask us for the answer.

I doubt it'll get too bad, I think gmail had their captcha broken recently, a good chunk of the new accounts used gmail.  Between activation and a captcha, that's really all I want to do.  I'll turn off the approval after a couple days...

[Mike D.]

Going to ask random questions from rdub's trivia game at Dee-Nee fest St. Louis 2008

But the answers will all be the same:  Your moms cunt

[Gantry]

They don't know that...   At least they didn't until now

[Re-Peat]

Going to ask random questions from rdub's trivia game at Dee-Nee fest St. Louis 2008

But the answers will all be the same:  The '85 Bears

Rex Grossman would also be acceptable.

[Big Hath]

Do you plan to administer a literacy test or institute some sort of joiners' tax?  What a tyrant...

my guess is that new Dee Nee members will have to own land

[fknmclane]

I hate that word captcha.

[Gantry]

But it ain't a word, stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart."  - though I have a feeling you'll hate it even more now.

[Re-Peat]

The only thing worse than acronyms are words purposefully designed in awkward ways so that a clever acronyms can be used instead of the word itself.

[fknmclane]

But it ain't a word, stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart."  - though I have a feeling you'll hate it even more now.

LOATHE

[broiler]

for mclane

[fknmclane]

for mclane

Nice.

Looks like more of a jockstrap than a thong though.

[nomaaa]

But it ain't a word, stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart."  - though I have a feeling you'll hate it even more now.

LOATHER

Ludicrous Old Ass Hole Eating Rocks

[fknmclane]

But it ain't a word, stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart."  - though I have a feeling you'll hate it even more now.

LOATHER

Ludicrous Old Ass Hole Eating Rocks

I've seen some weak steeze in my day but this really takes the cake.  Absolutely pathetic.

Effort and originality...the suck.  Par for the course.