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  • edited September 2012
    I'm sure there will be. And I have to step away from the computer for a while. Best of luck to you all. I'll check in when I can and clean up the damage if there is any.

    Ok thanks Guru.
  • edited September 2012
    I don't think iv made that many references.
  • edited September 2012
    Guess that's what I get for letting them know I was leaving.
  • edited September 2012
    You made a thread just to say one Simpsons reference.
  • edited September 2012
    You made a thread just to say one Simpsons reference.

    I...well...ok that the truth.
  • edited September 2012
    It's all about preventing automated registration and detection of threads created by spammers who got in.

    I have an idea. Require email authorization--and perhaps force the use of unique email addresses not tied to another TTG account--for accounts created which hadn't purchased any games.


    I'm just thinking that an account which has games tied to it is obviously used by a real person. Accounts which have no purchases may not be, thus do not allow automatic authorization. Also if accounts require unique, valid email addresses for each of them, then one would have to bother to create new, separate email addresses for each ban-circumvent or bot.
  • edited September 2012
    coolsome wrote: »
    I...well...ok that the truth.

    Which truth is it? Good or Bad?
  • edited September 2012
    I think the question we're all thinking is has anyone tried resetting their router?
    that was a joke dont be mean to me
  • edited September 2012
    SO HOW ABOUT THAT WHATEVER'S ON YOUR MIND THREAD? SURE IS A GREAT PLACE FOR DISCUSSIONS THAT DON'T BELONG IN OTHER THREADS, ISN'T IT?
  • edited September 2012
    resetting one's router doesn't change the traceroute, just the IP assigned by the user's ISP.

    Also, if one were to actually go into the effort of doing so, one could determine, from the ISP's logs, which MAC address or ISP login name was using which IP as a given time.

    SO HOW ABOUT THAT WHATEVER'S ON YOUR MIND THREAD? SURE IS A GREAT PLACE FOR DISCUSSIONS THAT DON'T BELONG IN OTHER THREADS, ISN'T IT?
    increasing bot detection isn't on-topic?
  • edited September 2012
    How the hell did you post an all caps message?
  • edited September 2012
    DAISHI wrote: »
    How the hell did you post an all caps message?

    You must be one with the Forum.

    Also, ever notice that lower case l's look like uppercase I's? Or that broken images still contain lower case letters as far as the forum is concerned? (also, links)
  • edited September 2012
    DAISHI wrote: »
    How the hell did you post an all caps message?

    With that url.The link has lower caps letters. That tricks the system.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited September 2012
    SO WRlTING IN ALL CAPS IMPROVES THE FORUM?!?
  • edited September 2012
    lM DOING IT MA!!!
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited September 2012
    Would you guys stop replying to spambots please?!
  • edited September 2012
    Would you guys stop replying to spambots please?!

    But they offer live free streaming! I can't pass up an offer like that.
  • edited September 2012
    Would you guys stop replying to spambots please?!
    or else what? :D
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited September 2012
    Errr... we stop deleting them? Because we'd never delete topics you want to discuss?
  • edited September 2012
    Errr... we stop deleting them? Because we'd never delete topics you want to discuss?

    I can't think of an example off the top of my head, but I'm sure this is a thing we've done before.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited September 2012
    I was kinda joking. :cool:
  • edited September 2012
    And I was killing that joke. :D
  • edited September 2012
    you did. it was a movie thread i think. Stayed for a few days before it was just merged.
  • edited September 2012
    Yeah but that was the more subtle type of bot, the kind that makes posts saying "I like such-and-such, do you like it?". Not too dissimilar to coolsome at times...


    :p
  • edited September 2012
    It's clear then.

    Coolsome's a frakkin' skin job.

    tigh_l.jpg

    Don't worry, he's the coolsome type of skin job.
  • edited September 2012
    I can't think of an example off the top of my head, but I'm sure this is a thing we've done before.

    There was the Top 5 Villains thread. I think there were others as well, but that's the last one I remember.
  • edited September 2012
    Noname made me do it.
  • edited September 2012
    It's clear then.

    Coolsome's a frakkin' skin job.

    tigh_l.jpg

    Don't worry, he's the coolsome type of skin job.
    flesk wrote: »
    There was the Top 5 Villains thread. I think there were others as well, but that's the last one I remember.
    Noname made me do it.

    Clearly I was no 1 all along as an advanced spa bot mwhahaha!
  • edited October 2012
    coolsome wrote: »
    Clearly I was no 1 all along as an advanced spa bot mwhahaha!

    What exactly is a spa bot???
  • edited October 2012
    Iryon wrote: »
    What exactly is a spa bot???

    A robot that works in a Spa.
  • edited October 2012
    coolsome wrote: »
    A robot that works in a Spa.
    I can't help but think that an advanced electrical device being in a place with steam and water is a bad idea.
  • edited October 2012
    Ah, SpamBots. Gotta love 'em. Especially when we get 5 in a day. And this:

    SPAMBOTAHOY.png
  • edited October 2012
    Deputy mods. You know you want them. Their lettering should be green and they only get activated when danger (or a spambot) threatens.
  • edited October 2012
    Ah, SpamBots. Gotta love 'em. Especially when we get 5 in a day. And this:

    You sound like Wheatley in Portal 2

    ''Ah Humans gotta love 'em'' :D
  • edited October 2012
    British humour. Gotta love us. :D
  • edited October 2012
    Ah, SpamBots. Gotta love 'em. Especially when we get 5 in a day. And this:

    SPAMBOTAHOY.png

    We caught you! You are trophy hunting for Dr.Who!
  • edited October 2012
    I can't help but think that an advanced electrical device being in a place with steam and water is a bad idea.

    He could be made water resistant by covering it in artificial elastomer skin like a sex toy.
    Ok, let's recap the info we gathered so far:

    coolsome is an advanced robot with an elastomer skin (possibly a sex toy) that works in a spa ...

    creepy :eek:


    though I'm slightly envious now ...
  • edited October 2012
    We caught you! You are trophy hunting for Dr.Who!
    It's a collectables guide for The Eternity Clock so I can get all the hats / diary pages. Because the less time I spend playing that game, the better. Ugh.

    Little surprised that's all your focusing on out of the dozen tabs you can see...
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited October 2012
    Ah, SpamBots. Gotta love 'em. Especially when we get 5 in a day.

    That would be a god damn holiday. :(
  • edited October 2012
    That would be a god damn holiday. :(
    It's that bad these days? Wow.
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