Subject: Newbie here
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Posted on: 2010-08-31 22:33:00 UTC
I've only seen around five of these troll messages. Are others being deleted, or is this just how the massive attacks start, and things are about to get much worse?
So we all stay over here to keep clutter down, so the Admins can get rid of the trolls?
Again, I'm sorry for the allcaps. Any questions you have about what's going on, please put here, and I will answer you as best I can and/or find the answer. This is merely so that we don't have pages and pages and pages of people throwing the same questions back and forth over and over and over again.
General Information for Those Who Haven't Done Evac Before: The Posting Board is under attack by spambots. Techno-D and the Nameless Admin are working to fix this. The best thing you can do to help is stay off the Posting Board. This is the Message Board, it is exactly the same as the Posting Board except that this is less accessible to spammers. We're going to stay here until we get the word that we can go back to the Posting Board.
Any other questions, add here. (Please read over the questions already posted before you add more. I'm trying to keep the length of this post down to a minimum.)
I've only seen around five of these troll messages. Are others being deleted, or is this just how the massive attacks start, and things are about to get much worse?
So we all stay over here to keep clutter down, so the Admins can get rid of the trolls?
The bot starts posting at an odd hour of the day, posts the same message (or variations of it) several times a minute for about half an hour, then leaves. There's usually a couple hundred identical or near-identical posts in that much time.
Now, to disagree with Ed for a moment, there's no reason you can't use the other Board - just be forewarned that it's currently got security settings so you'll need to register your name (on http://yourwebapps.com ) before you can make new topics. Also, if you post in the middle of the bot's posting (look at the times of the posts - if the latest one was more than a couple minutes ago, you're probably safe), your post might get accidentally deleted as I go through and delete the pages upon pages of spam.
...But we also think that it's about to get much worse. And you're exactly right about why we're here. If the Admins can get to the trolls directly, instead of sifting through all of our messages, things will be over much more qickly.
There is no 'we'.
As far as I recall from last night, you weren't chatting with the ones discussing what to do or what had happened.
But I do count myself as one of the PPC. Or at least, I did. I'm sorry I have done such to make you think otherwise.