I removed 11 posts and don’t have the rights to remove the Michelle Obama one. Is this a record for one day?
Wyn
Make that 14 posts removed!
Grrrrrrr
I know, this is weird. I am deleting them almost hourly now and banning IPs left and right.
There are two types of spam - with link and without. With link, I made sure that links cannot be added if you are not a member, but non-link one, I have trouble identifying the keywords…
According to my stats the biggest spam is …dog-related!!! wyn - did you subscribe to some sort of canine bride magazine and used our site as a reference of character? 
What the hell!
Seriously, we are being spammed like crazy right now. I am not sure how to stop this since most of the spammers are not registering and I don’t want to make it a REGISTER-ONLY forum.
What happened in the last week that caused such a spike? Wyn, Tony - who did you piss off?
Funny you should ask… errr… I did piss off some Genesys guys, earlier in the week…
…they wouldn’t - would they…?
you never know, you never know… this is an incredible number of spam!!!
And what is worse, they are really persistent in cracking CAPTCHA! This is amazing!..
Ok, I figured what is going on - these bastards were very smart - they have noticed that there is a way to brute-force the registration by just entering the numbers and then using back button - this way new digits are never generated and all you have to do is repeat the process until you register. Needless to say, this is pretty crude.
So, I fixed that part of the code
So, now we are not going to have registered bots anymore. I hope. :-\
There is still a problem with bots putting really annoying one liners all over the place, so perhaps a captcha for unregistered users should take care of that as well. I am trying very hard to avoid this, though…
Well, let’s see…
damn, they are getting smarter!
Go Vic, you are our hero, defeat them!! I’ll send Cavagnaro to neuter them in the meanwhile ;D
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I think the problem is we DID send Cavagnaro to neuter them… But I think he ended up neutering a cute white poodle somewhere near Minsk, and now Wyn is on a war path… God help us!
Ok! I think we got the worst of it! 
Oooops!
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: now that dogs are handled cats will be next >
Hehehehe, it took me a while to realize that I was the cat!!! 
I thought you were the teddy bear in the picture and the kitten was just coincidence?
Ok, this is getting gay!
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hahahaha those are the effects after the operation ;D
Poor Wyn… let’s be kind to him and make this week - Promote Wyn!
I am happy to announce since I have modified our CAPTCHA, SPAM originated by an upset Belorussian poodles after Wyn’s swing through Minsk has left them broken hearted yet, is now officially taken care of.
I think there is a reason for spaying pets after a certain age…
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yahooo ;D
Maybe I should check out the Poodles in Chile next time?
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