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Reinholdz
Posted: Dec 8 2006, 01:21 PM


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Hello everybody!

As you have seen we´re having problems with disgusting and utterly irritating spamming on this forum. We´re trying to do something about this. In the meantime we delete these posts as often as we can.
We´re sorry for this and hope you still are interested in posting here.

Yours truly,

Johan
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Weapon X
Posted: Dec 10 2006, 03:42 PM


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no problem, as long as you're interested to solve this problem ;)
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Haitani
Posted: Dec 11 2006, 12:14 AM


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Yeah, spam is pretty bad =\

We should have someone like botman to keep the place clean u know.
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Botman
Posted: Dec 13 2006, 11:13 AM


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:P Thanks for your vote hehe
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MrGul
Posted: Dec 13 2006, 04:25 PM


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I also vote for Botman!
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Botman
Posted: Dec 25 2006, 10:15 AM


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I was just promoted to be co-moderator and I will do my best to keep this forum clean. Thank you for your support guys :)
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drazenmetal
Posted: Dec 25 2006, 11:07 AM


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I promoted Botman to keep forum clean. Im very busy all the time and i cant be always on the Andromeda forum :(
So Botman prove that you are worthy to be moderator:) im sure you will !
Stay heavy!
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Weapon X
Posted: Dec 26 2006, 12:56 AM


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and I was promoted to co-mod as well, thx to botman for suggesting me :D i'l do my best, since i'm now on summer vacations (remember guys, i'm from south america :P) i'll have plenty time to take care of this forum.

Spam messages... be afraid... muahahahahaha B)
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Haitani
Posted: Dec 27 2006, 04:59 PM


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south america power ftw! \m/
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MrGul
Posted: Dec 28 2006, 01:31 AM


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Well, obviously I was promoted as well - so I can just say "thanks for the honorable mission" and I swear I'll do my best. Mostly deleting spam, I guess. The real people here are so nice. :)
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Weapon X
Posted: Dec 28 2006, 02:04 PM


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QUOTE (Haitani @ Dec 27 2006, 12:59 PM)
south america power ftw! \m/

GIMME A HELL YEAH! \m/
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Botman
Posted: Dec 28 2006, 10:50 PM


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HELL YEAH! :D
Now let's here it for Poland! lol
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Weapon X
Posted: Dec 29 2006, 12:34 AM


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QUOTE
HELL YEAH! :D
Now let's here it for Poland! lol

*cri, cri*
:D
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Golbez
Posted: Jan 22 2007, 10:07 PM


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Just had a thought for spam prevention. Not sure how easy it'd be for the coders/programmers to do, but how about making it so anyone with a new account can't make a thread of their own until they have at least 1 comment in an existing thread?

This would require the bots to post on someone else's thread prior to creating their own spam (but if their code isn't written to perform this function, it'd stop them from posting at all). In the end, it might cause more problems once they figure this out (as it propagates more spam), but for now, it would probably halt their posts.

Just a thought. :)


Edit - A step further would be to have one of those "scrambled" words to type into a box to get around just anyone creating an account, like they have on paypal sites, etc.
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Haitani
Posted: Jan 23 2007, 03:48 AM


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that would solve it, golbez... i mean, the scrambled words stuff, but , ia m not sure if it´s worthy doing it. hehe
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