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Re: More Suspect Members
« Reply #15 on: June 01, 2010, 08:10:26 PM »
With this kind of forum, I've found that also accumulating IPs and just banning a range works as well.  Also, I've found domains before that work just as well as the IP, in the case of dynamic IPs.


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Re: More Suspect Members
« Reply #19 on: June 04, 2010, 01:11:22 AM »
Thanks!  This is pretty low on my forum maintenance priority list, but this'll be helpful for a rainy day!

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Re: More Suspect Members
« Reply #20 on: June 04, 2010, 01:17:49 AM »
One of the times I went through my forum and cleaned out bots/spammers it nearly doubled the performance.

(No, I'm not asking for this tedious headache/job. Just, whoever does it, I feel your pain.)
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Re: More Suspect Members
« Reply #21 on: June 04, 2010, 01:42:27 AM »
Interesting!  Why not give it a shot? 

Okay, purged!  Booyeah!  Thanks so much.

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Re: More Suspect Members
« Reply #22 on: June 04, 2010, 01:57:41 AM »
One of the times I went through my forum and cleaned out bots/spammers it nearly doubled the performance.

(No, I'm not asking for this tedious headache/job. Just, whoever does it, I feel your pain.)

Yeah, the lousy code they use does lock up the post event.

I hate spiders that ignore robot.txt too.

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Re: More Suspect Members
« Reply #25 on: June 04, 2010, 06:49:51 PM »
If I remember correctly, this version of Simple Machines has a page where you can put check boxes on suspect accounts, about 50 per page....and just delete them...POOF!
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Re: More Suspect Members
« Reply #26 on: June 04, 2010, 10:21:47 PM »
On second thought...if you really trust a random martian with the ability to delete accounts and you needed an eye on it, I wouldn't mind doing it too horribly.
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Re: More Suspect Members
« Reply #28 on: December 08, 2010, 12:15:26 PM »
Yeah, already reported taht one.

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Re: More Suspect Members
« Reply #29 on: December 08, 2010, 01:09:14 PM »
Yeah, already reported taht one.

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