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Re: Help with Spammers

by Senlin » May 19th, '17, 12:44

Emily@Adagio wrote: All the Spam posts are down! Back to your regularly schedule TeaChat activities :D
Thanks for your work, Emily ! :)

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Re: Help with Spammers

by Chip » May 19th, '17, 14:24

Fortunately, assaults such as today's on the forum are pretty rare. With automation comes opportunity ... so we shut it down.

More work on the front end for now which is ok with me. I had the forum set for manual activation for years.

Most of you were not around for the chaos in the early years of TeaChat. New registrations were automatically approved without any safeguards. Forums were a bit of a novelty and sort of new. Software was inadequate to deal with bot spam,etc.

But OMG, the spam was unbelievable ... porn images that were so huge, the images would take up literally 5 monitors in width. Multiply this X 50 a day. And little did I know that Marmaduke was such a bad dog! 🤤

So, this was nothing but a little speed bump ...
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Re: Help with Spammers

by Xeractha » May 19th, '17, 15:13

Chip wrote: ...

But OMG, the spam was unbelievable ... porn images that were so huge, the images would take up literally 5 monitors in width. Multiply this X 50 a day. And little did I know that Marmaduke was such a bad dog! 🤤

So, this was nothing but a little speed bump ...
Boobie ladies! :O I remember back in the days such pics took a while to load. Half of the screen was still grey after minutes... :D I mean I heard it.
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Re: Help with Spammers

by victoria3 » May 19th, '17, 19:08

:lol: :lol: :lol: nice to have Chips humor back :D
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Re: Help with Spammers

by Mrs. Chip » May 19th, '17, 20:26

I agree, thanks Victoria 3, it was awful, way more than boobies :o
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Re: Help with Spammers

by victoria3 » May 19th, '17, 22:00

Mrs. Chip wrote: I agree, thanks Victoria 3, it was awful, way more than boobies :o
Yeah, boobies curves close ups of erogenous zones are way cooler... :D
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Re: Help with Spammers

by Bok » Jul 31st, '17, 08:54

This person is clearly only posting to refer to his/her own shop: peony
JKshop or something.
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Re: Help with Spammers

by teaformeplease » Jul 31st, '17, 15:40

Bok wrote: This person is clearly only posting to refer to his/her own shop: peony
JKshop or something.
Agreed. I've reported a few posts in the pasts that were really blatant.
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Re: Help with Spammers

by Chip » Jul 31st, '17, 18:58

This shop frequently spams the forum ...

I am just now getting caught up in the wake of ... well some of you know. 8)

Thank you for your patience!
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Re: Help with Spammers

by victoria3 » Jul 31st, '17, 21:50

Chip wrote: This shop frequently spams the forum ...

I am just now getting caught up in the wake of ... well some of you know. 8)

Thank you for your patience!
Show them to the door out 🚪...
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Re: Help with Spammers

by Zared » Jul 31st, '17, 23:07

victoria3 wrote:
Chip wrote: This shop frequently spams the forum ...

I am just now getting caught up in the wake of ... well some of you know. 8)

Thank you for your patience!
Show them to the door out 🚪...

We can all do our part by not supporting businesses that choose to spam here. Most places that do it generally sell tea that's easily bought elsewhere anyway.
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Re: Help with Spammers

by Chip » Aug 1st, '17, 13:21

Oops ... yet another bit of change with forum "improvements" caused me to delete the posts and not the offender. I wanted to do both.

Ban hammer ... activated.
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Re: Help with Spammers

by Chip » Aug 1st, '17, 13:23

... ok, booted.

:mrgreen:
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Re: Help with Spammers

by victoria3 » Aug 4th, '17, 14:17

Chip wrote: ... ok, booted.

:mrgreen:
And it seem back again :oops:
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Re: Help with Spammers

by Chip » Aug 7th, '17, 17:04

victoria3 wrote:
Chip wrote: ... ok, booted.

:mrgreen:
And it seem back again :oops:
Welllll ... in an ever changing world, that is one constant! :mrgreen:
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