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|  | | Posted by sleepy - Wednesday 14 March 2012 - 20:19:26 - Read/Post Comment: 2 | Everyone has been putting up with the ridiculous amount of spam on the site for far too long now, so I've taken some pretty serious steps toward dealing with that problem. First of all, I've gone through and banned several hundred spammers as well as deleting several thousand of their spam posts. Even with help from an automated tool to do this, my wrist is sore from the clicking.
I've also instituted a "new user" time period. When you sign up for a new account you will not be able to post links of any kind right away and the number of posts you can make will be limited. Even after you get past this new user phase you will only be able to post a maximum of 2 links per message. Period. Most of the real forum traffic here doesn't need links so this shouldn't pose a problem for anyone.
Additionally, I've added a new security plugin that scans for known bots, detects hacking attempts, and checks every site access against a list of "evil" IP addresses that are known for distributing spam and/or malware. This should effectively make the server a little more responsive since bandwidth won't be wasted on the hackers and spammers.
Hopefully none of these changes will affect your user experience in any way... but if you see anything strange happening, please let me know. On the good side of things, since this is a "real" solution (unlike my previous workaround of just disabling the comments system), so everything should be seamless and back to normal. The comments system has been re-enabled and all of that should be working well.
Anyway, I think that covers it. Hope everyone enjoys the new and improved rdocs! | Read/Post Comment: 2bysleepyonWednesday 14 March 2012 - 20:19:26 |
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29 Jul 19 : 17:46
Very happy to see you are back and got the site fixed, sleepy~!
Now the task of sorting through the uploads...
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sleepy
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29 Jul 19 : 11:28
I'M BACK!!! 
09 Jul 19 : 13:53
I don't think sleepy is coming back. If he has hoting and domain name time left, maybe he could trun this over to someone else.
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31 May 19 : 17:59
Sleep please read forums
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mateus
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12 May 19 : 13:10
my name is Mateus Bertolaccini da Silva and I am brazilian. Why do not we go to the face for meet us everyone?
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12 May 19 : 13:08
hey, guys! Save all the archives because I think that this site is dead, unfortunately. I take all of snes, genesis, nes and I will go to continue, but i dont know if I will get
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20 Mar 19 : 05:21
lord rings
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31 Jan 19 : 14:25
Massimus, Try the link Alastair posted below. I believe he is the only one tryimg to maintain what's left of the site.
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Massimus2010
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30 Dec 18 : 07:50
Anybody know what's going on? all manuals giving 404 error...
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Alastair
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21 Dec 18 : 13:26
psteele, please read the current site problems "sticky" in the bug reports forum - the URL is [link]
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