Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Who Should Score The Inevitable historical epic dramatizing the invasion of JWFan by spambots? I vote for Elliot Goldenthal. I think he'd really capture the anguish, frustration, horror, and occasional sardonic humor of the whole affair. While we're at it, who should direct? Who would you cast in the roles of various forum denizens? Would it be appropriate to use CGI in place of miniatures when portraying the forum locations themselves? Who should remix the score? Would a hybrid folk-rock/psychedelia song work well during the credits? How long will it be before a spambot responds to this topic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 The irony would be delicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,359 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 I would cast Faleel as Faleel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Main Title (AKA Scherzo for Spambots) for Daxophone.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb23PNogJ0M Dixon Hill and Incanus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 The instrument is exactly correct (what weird sounds it produces!) but I think it should be a March of the Spambots instead of a scherzo.And man these spambots are annoying. But they shall not pass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 You and Jason are battling them valiantly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 You guys! It's so obvious.Monty Python announce they are reuniting, and the number of SPAM increases dramatically? Bilbo and Incanus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 You guys! It's so obvious.Monty Python announce they are reuniting, and the number of SPAM increases dramatically? And who would be more suitable to score the Invasion of Spambots than John Williams himself? My second choices would be Goldenthal, Elfman or Broughton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Because where is the mod who is tasked with cleaning up this outright attack? LolYou can't get the staff these days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted November 25, 2013 Author Share Posted November 25, 2013 Oh lord! It's the end! They're here! Nearly the whole first page of general discussion has fallen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Thank you kindly Lee for that pithy comment. I have been removing the spam from the forum daily through the weekend but I have to say I can't do it 24/7 and all the time when I am work. Today I alone I have handled 5-10 of these bots. So kindly please understand this situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Slacker!I bet you keep sneaking off for a crafty fag! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 You are essentially correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 A wizard is never a slacker Quint, not even when he means to.But when I am on the job the spambots shall not pass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 It's crazy today though. I just opened GD to find it under siege - there must have been twenty spam threads is a row. Is it not time to come up with a permanent solution? Is this due to a flaw in the rubbish IPBoard software? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 This spam isn't attacking in single file, unfortunately. It's more like the charge of the Rohirrim. SPAM NOW! SPAAAAAAAM! SPAM FOR RUIN! AND THE BOARD'S ENDIIIING! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I will banish you from this Message Board spambots, as poison is drawn from a wound! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I think it would be better to ask Andreas about that. I honestly have no idea. It is getting ridiculous though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted November 25, 2013 Author Share Posted November 25, 2013 This spam isn't attacking in single file, unfortunately. It's more like the charge of the Rohirrim.SPAM NOW! SPAAAAAAAM! SPAM FOR RUIN! AND THE BOARD'S ENDIIIING! They have taken the bridge... and general discussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Andreas is a very busy man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BloodBoal 7,538 Posted November 25, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted November 25, 2013 Bots... Bots in the deep... We cannot get out... We cannot get out... They are posting. Quintus, Sharkissimo and Dixon Hill 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Take the city, leave none alive. What of the moderator? I will SPAAAAAAAM him. Dixon Hill and Sharkissimo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 One does not simply leave the spam fighting to the moderator. One must create three or four threads to whine about it and quote movies and became the spam themselves and... Oh wait... Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 YOU SHALL BE...THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE SPAM!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I think I came up with a solution for this madness, I'll implement it when I get to work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,695 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Doesn't the registration have a captcha or similar? I thought modern message boards were beyond spambots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I think I came up with a solution for this madness, I'll implement it when I get to work!What ever you can do to stem this flood would be greatly appreciated Jason! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bilbo 3,709 Posted November 25, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted November 25, 2013 I think I came up with a solution for this madness, I'll implement it when I get to work!What ever you can do to stem this flood would be greatly appreciated Jason! Flood?I dreamed I saw a great wave of spam climbing over threads and above posts. I stood upon the brink. It was utterly dark in the forum before my feet. A light shown behind me, but I could not turn. I could only stand there… waiting. Smeltington, Sharkissimo, Jay and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 From the lowest thread to the highest subforum, I fought him, the Spamrog of Maestroth. Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his algorithms upon the Main Pageside. Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,019 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I like those threads. A lot of important, brave and discussion-worthy subjects are being raised. Other than that it's just The Hobbit or how unremarkable The Book Thief is... constantly on the loop.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Are we a modern message board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Members scowl at us, and lurkers give us scornful names. ''Inky'' I am to one fat man near Liverpool who lives within a mouseclick of SPAM that would freeze his heart, or lay his little message boards in ruins, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. Yet we would not have it otherwise. If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so. This has been the task of my kindred, while the years have lengthened and the grass has grown.'' And again: ''Peace and freedom?...the MB would have known them little but for us...but when dark things come from the world wide web, or creep from oppressive Cloud, they fly from us! What threads would any dare to tread, what safety would there be in quiet lands, or in the laptops and tablets of simple men at night, if the Moderators were asleep, or were all gone into the grave?' - Incanus Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Members scowl at us, and lurkers give us scornful names. ''Inky'' I am to one fat man near Liverpool who lives within a mouseclick of SPAM that would freeze his heart, or lay his little message boards in ruins, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. Yet we would not have it otherwise. If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so. This has been the task of my kindred, while the years have lengthened and the grass has grown.'' And again: ''Peace and freedom?...the MB would have known them little but for us...but when dark things come from the world wide web, or creep from oppressive Cloud, they fly from us! What threads would any dare to tread, what safety would there be in quiet lands, or in the laptops and tablets of simple men at night, if the Moderators were asleep, or were all gone into the grave?' - IncanusThese spambots are so sophisticated these days they can even mimick users! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Stefancos. The original spambot. The most advanced spambot ever created. 59210 posts without a perma-ban to prove it. SafeUnderHill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Hey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Isn't it cute? It's programmed to appear sentient! It even has an adorable backstory about being a Dutchman! Quintus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I AM ALIVE DAMMIT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 For now, I have completely disabled new registration. So any real life people reading this and hoping to join the forum - sorry, you'll have to wait a bit until we clean up this mess.It's very odd that these spambots are getting in, because if you guys were to log out and check our new user registration page, it requires a two-phrase captcha PLUS you have to answer a question (that isn't worded in a way that a spambot could google the answer).Andreas has let us know that we cannot use the official spam protection from IPBoard with the license we have. We'd have to upgrade to a different license that costs $150 sign-up plus $50/year, so we'd have to raise money for that.My plan of attack in the meantime is to delete all these current spam accounts that haven't posted yet, then create a new member type and default all new users to this new group. This new group would have their first post require mod approval before showing - if they are a real person, we move them to "members", if not, we delete their account. However if we are still going to be getting hundreds of new spambots signed up every day, this won't be too helpful. We'll see..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 The efforts of our moderating and admin team is appreciated as always! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Every spambot dies. Not every spambot really lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I AM NOT A SPAMBOT! Ask Jason...he met me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Denial is the first step. You have been programmed well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BloodBoal 7,538 Posted November 25, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted November 25, 2013 You either die a moderator, or live long enough to see yourself become the spambot. Dixon Hill, BLUMENKOHL and Smeltington 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Actually: Gold star! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I am real! I am real! I demand a Voight-Kampff test! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 BLUMENKOHL and Quintus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Ah yes, from the days when I wasn't single.nice one.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Ah yes, from the days when I wasn't single.nice one....Ooh, he comes with replicated memories too! Cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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