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Bots

Post by UMassfan_19 » Sun Jan 13, 2019 11:19 pm

Something has to be done about the bots it is destroying the site

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Re: Bots

Post by jj » Mon Jan 14, 2019 4:11 pm

Banned the two that were doing it- trying to clean it up now

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Re: Bots

Post by jj » Mon Jan 14, 2019 4:27 pm

Mike has some cleanup work to do in the other forums. I have the hoop forum sort of cleaned up.

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Re: Bots

Post by 69MG » Mon Jan 14, 2019 4:40 pm

Thank you.

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Re: Bots

Post by Berkman » Mon Jan 14, 2019 4:46 pm

I thank you also.

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Re: Bots

Post by LS71 » Mon Jan 14, 2019 6:47 pm

Thanks, jj! 8)
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Re: Bots

Post by Mr.Stopherson » Mon Jan 14, 2019 8:42 pm

Thank you sir,
It was getting rediculous

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Re: Bots

Post by Refuse2Lose83 » Mon Jan 14, 2019 11:17 pm

Thanks JJ
Hire Matt McCall!

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Re: Bots

Post by jj » Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:38 am

no sweat, fellas. Freaking SQL injection scripts.

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Re: Bots

Post by Berkman » Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:19 pm

Still got a couple of guys posting junk on the General Discussion topic.

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Re: Bots

Post by MikeUMA » Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:05 pm

Big thanks to JJ for taking his personal time to help clean up the mess. I should have acted on it earlier, but my free time is not what it once was. Plus, I went into holiday mode, fought off an illness, and had a kid's birthday during that stretch.

Anyway, JJ has un-done a lot of the damage, and I'm working on the rest. I think all the trash has been taken out of the sports forums. If there's still some there,use the Warn or Report functions where you see it. (It may look different for you as a user than me as an Admin.)

I'm going back and getting the rest of the trash out of General Discussion. Give me some more time to clean it.

Spammers who got in during the open reg period still have the ability to post, but we've already nuked the worst ones, and I'll get the rest. Most of them post once and don't come back, so likelihood of new garbage is low.

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Re: Bots

Post by Swampy » Wed Jan 16, 2019 9:05 pm

jj wrote: Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:38 am no sweat, fellas. Freaking SQL injection scripts.
Obrigado buddy. :wink:

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Re: Bots

Post by Quann » Thu Jan 17, 2019 10:12 am

Thanks JJ! Thank you as always Mike!

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Re: Bots

Post by InnervisionsUMASS » Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:49 am

Thanks for cleaning things up, Jay and Mike. Hopefully you can find a moderator or two to handle screening people and cleaning up any messes. No one is blaming ya for not having time... hopefully there is help to keep this place in great shape!!
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Re: Bots

Post by MJatUM » Thu Jan 17, 2019 2:40 pm

... Also, I still haven't received my Ukranian passport. Not sure who I am supposed to take that up with though.

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