A note on dealing with spammers

The Batlord · 06-09-2015, 10:32 AM

Reposting this edit in case you missed it...

Edit: You know, it just occurred to me. You could do an outreach thing for hobos where you find some that can play instruments and form some kind of panhandling group to raise money for crack and 40 ounces.

**Frownland** · 06-09-2015, 10:36 AM

I saw it when I quoted your post. Reasonable idea, but where would the instruments come from?

Side note: I also work at a mortgage company for drug money, maybe we can get hobos in on that too?

The Batlord · 06-09-2015, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I saw it when I quoted your post. Reasonable idea, but where would the instruments come from?

Side note: I also work at a mortgage company for drug money, maybe we can get hobos in on that too?

I'd say your own instruments -- assuming you have enough to go around -- but there'd be the issue of them stealing them and selling them for crack and 40 ounces. It would probably undermine the atmosphere of the project to somehow secure them to lamp posts or have friends standing by with tazers, but I can't think of anyway to deal with the problem in a way that made it look like you didn't trust any farther than you could throw them.

Perhaps "borrowing" instruments from whatever music program you have at your college?

And I imagine having hobos work at a mortgage company might give them Nam-style flashbacks.

Trollheart · 06-09-2015, 01:35 PM

Just break up a chair, hand four of them a leg each for percussion, one can use the seat as a kind of tambourine maybe and then the back can be like a washboard. Almost a full band, and who cares if the instruments go missing?

Hey: should I market this idea?

VEGANGELICA · 09-18-2015, 07:12 PM

What sort of filters does MusicBanter use to prevent Spambots from gaining membership?

Today, as usual, I saw lots of presumably Spambot members that had been banned. The number of disabled Spambot accounts online outnumbered actual human members by almost 3 to 1.

So I am wondering if moderators are having to disable the Spambot accounts, or if it is an automated system.

Does the forum not only challenge new joining members with CAPTCHA but also with verification questions to prevent Spambots from even becoming new members?

The Batlord · 09-18-2015, 07:26 PM

My plan to turn Spambots into weapons of warfare to invade and conquer the servers of rival music forums would solve this problem. These SAMbots (Surface-to-Asshole-Missiles) would become valued members of the site.

VEGANGELICA · 09-18-2015, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

My plan to turn Spambots into weapons of warfare to invade and conquer the servers of rival music forums would solve this problem. These SAMbots (Surface-to-Asshole-Missiles) would become valued members of the site.

Maybe that already happened, because it looks to me like Muzicforums is GONE!

I remember fondly when there was a rivalry between Muzicforums and Musicbanter. One time, one of their mods apparently went berserk and a bunch of their members left, with some showing up here. Now Muzicforums doesn't even appear to exist. Perhaps the SAMbots did them in.

The Batlord · 09-18-2015, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

Maybe that already happened, because it looks to me like Muzicforums is GONE!

I remember fondly when there was a rivalry between Muzicforums and Musicbanter. One time, one of their mods apparently went berserk and a bunch of their members left, with some showing up here. Now Muzicforums doesn't even appear to exist. Perhaps the SAMbots did them in.

Not likely. The SAMbots' purpose is to invade another forum's server and turn them into a vassal state whose purpose is to pay monetary tribute to Music Banter. Destroying their forum would be counter-productive.

My plan is further discussed here...

http://www.musicbanter.com/games-lis...ml#post1635410

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Vote for The Batlord/Justthefacts. We will expand Music Banter's boarders, through swift and overwhelming military force, to include Music Discussions, Music Chat, Drowned in Sound, and any other music forums foolish enough to be on page one of a Yahoo search for "music forum".

If the conquered territories resist, their members will be infracted, and their forums subject to the tyranny of Tore's proposed rule changes. Those who accept their new overlords will be allowed to pay an exorbitant tax, which will be fairly distributed amongst the members of Music Banter (after half is given to the President and Vice President of course).

And finally, we shall declare everlasting war with Google. When our victory is complete, Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be publicly executed.

And here...

http://www.musicbanter.com/games-lis...ml#post1635422

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Instead of banning spambots, they will be repurposed for cyber warfare, and our enemies' servers will become our servers. Their website owners will remain as puppet governors whose only role will be to continue paying to maintain their former sites.

Advameg will be next.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	I saw it when I quoted your post. Reasonable idea, but where would the instruments come from? Side note: I also work at a mortgage company for drug money, maybe we can get hobos in on that too? __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,970	Just break up a chair, hand four of them a leg each for percussion, one can use the seat as a kind of tambourine maybe and then the back can be like a washboard. Almost a full band, and who cares if the instruments go missing? Hey: should I market this idea? __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018