False "members" on the bulletin board?

Anableps · Post by **Anableps** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 5:26 am

It appears that the last two accounts to sign for the bulletin board may have done so to tout their websites. "BuckJones" has had his website suspended (presumably for abuse), and "LorieKennedy's" website URL looks suspicious to me.

Thoughts?

JH · Post by JH » Sun Jan 16, 2005 8:13 am

It looks like you're right. It seems a very ineffective way of plugging a website.

Post by **Sir Toby** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:39 am

Anableps wrote:It appears that the last two accounts to sign for the bulletin board may have done so to tout their websites. "BuckJones" has had his website suspended (presumably for abuse), and "LorieKennedy's" website URL looks suspicious to me.

Thoughts?

I've removed the members in question. Thanks for bring them to my attention. I have configured the board to help prevent future abuse of this nature by requiring people creating new accounts to prove they are human by use of a Captcha.

Hopefully this will solve the problem.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:06 pm

It looks like we have another one. "Lally" has registered with nothing but a website, which has been frozen due to a violation of terms.

JH · Post by JH » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:13 pm

So it seems that the website was frozen even before he/she could plug it here.

However it's just possible that there is a more innocent explanation, so it may be premature to jump to conclusions.

Noise Tank · Post by **Noise Tank** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:05 am

I don't get it. Why's it a big deal whether the person is human or not?

JH · Post by JH » Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:59 am

I think the idea is to prevent "bots" signing up in order to post spam messages here.

Sir-Toby.Com

False "members" on the bulletin board?

False "members" on the bulletin board?

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