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> Open letter to a very STUBBORN potential spammer
Shingen
post Jan 27 2010, 05:24 PM
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Hi.

As a rule I don't allow accounts that imply they have admin rights here, and the fact that you can't seem to read the registration form seems to point to you being an obvious spammer.

Hint: The following fields are important to fill in properly so you can "trick" me into not banning you on sight:

Favorite Anime: Putting your username in here? Dead giveaway unless you call yourself "Death Note" or something.
Real Name: Nobody, and I mean nobody in their right mind would believe your name is "google"
WAC Member ID: This is a secondary "turing test" because I haven't required this field ever. Putting something in here that is clearly not a member number, such as "US" is a dead giveaway.
Are you a human?: Leaving the default "Ban me." response gives me carte blanche to ban you on sight.

I have noticed you registering with many different e-mail accounts and IP addresses making it very hard for me to summarily ban you. Spammers have all but ruined the Comic Con forums, causing the signal-to-noise ratio to plummet.

Please keep in mind that I'm slapping every account you make with moderator preview.

However I am starting to tire of playing this IPB game of whack-a-mole and am about ready to require moderator approval of accounts.

In short, post something useful or go away.


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Shingen
post Jan 28 2010, 04:23 PM
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That's IT! I've had it.

I'm banning three IPs in Latvia.

Edit: I figured out why this person never posts and keeps re-registering. PM spammer. Fun fun. This is why we can't have nice things. You must now have a post count higher than 5 to use the private messaging system. You will need to post once anywhere to regain access to the PM system, if you are not part of a special group. A post will be put up for everyone to do this.

Edit 2: And that post is here


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QUOTE (Shingen on MSN)
Why can't I have 49 weeks of holidays a year?
Is that so much to ask? :-p


Laid off with 41 weeks of EI... BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR IN A WACBOARDS SIGNATURE LOL
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