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I've just nuked several thousand old-growth spammer accounts; this should hopefully curtail the spam problem for the foreseeable future. Please continue to use this topic to alert me to any spammers as they appear; if the problem returns (or if my sending the spammers back to their god en masse does...

Got most of them gone, the rest will be taken care of later when I put my secret plan into action

Those users are no more.

I've made some changes over the last few days that seem to have been mostly effective at preventing spam users from registering. The spam activity currently being seen is a result of users who registered before these changes were made; if you post the usernames here I will take care of them. I am cu...

Should be fixed.

There are quite a few free, community-based ban databases our there, for example this one , based on which for example registration requires approval. The problem with DNSBL-type solutions is that they have the tendency to produce a non-trivial number of false positives; this can be quite aggravati...

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Could someone to manually creating all these accounts?

Can we stop it from making more accounts?

There is no single source for these spam accounts.

I guess I will start off my first post in this thread. I don't even see why people would even want to spam that in a gaming forum since most people aren't dumb enough to click on the links. It's all about pagerank and backlinks, generally. Anyone clicking on the links is just gravy as far as the bo...

To clarify, every user's first post will require approval from now on. This is denoted on the forum index, topic list, and within a topic using this icon: http://forums.wolfire.com/styles/prosilver/imageset/icon_topic_unapproved.gif On the forum index, you'll see something like this: http://content....

Just dropped in to say that i just bought the Humble Bundle. It is an amazing deal and well worth telling everybody about, because i havent seen anything like this before. when i was small i bought it for 3 dollars which i loaned from a friend and those 3 dollars were my last this month. but never ...

I look sort of like this.

There are alot of artists out there that definitely would be satisfied with just having their art seen by others ... In reference to this, any good musician should smile at piracy, as it means people want to hear their music, and their music is getting out there. That's not entirely true. There hav...

It's just a bar styled with CSS placed at the top of the page. If you want to create something like it, you'd probably be best off using Google and looking for some CSS tutorials. The tickers themselves could be created in any number of technologies -- Javascript, Flash, even plain HTML.