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The report has been taken care of.

I'm not feeling this one lol.

Okay. I do not like anything that's going on in this topic. You guys should know by now not to get into arguments like these. I will be private messaging some people that posted in this topic.

I think the spam bots are gone now. I added stronger verification images and security questions when registering. About all the staff issues, Ryan and I haven't really had time to sit down at the same time and really examine everyone. Once that's done, it'll probably be better. I'm just letting you know that I'm aware of it, and have been for a while now so something will be done. I don't see it being that hard for the current staff to moderate the only 30 people that play though. Once the game starts booming is when we'll probably need a good number of new staff members.

Quote from: Program on June 12, 2011, 09:21:03 PM
On some sites when you're registering, you'll see custom signup questions. An example would be "What color is grass?".
It sounds like a pointless thing to add, but most bots probably aren't coded to handle those.

Might be something worth looking into. :)

I actually saw that when I was adding the stronger images. I'll go ahead and add one for that and see what happens.

The email confirmation was the second plan I had. I'm going to ask Ryan about this though to see what he wants to do.

The report has been taken care of.

Quote from: Yoho on June 12, 2011, 01:06:46 PM

Quote from: Bill on June 12, 2011, 12:58:20 PM
They won't be able to get through that.

I can't get through that.

You can keep refreshing the image on the registration page until you can read it.

Quote from: Sad Panda on June 12, 2011, 12:28:39 PM
I overthink things a lot, but I feel like Jeremy might be the cause of this... Maybe he put our name on the list for some huge spam bot site referral and now they are coming here because of that.

Idk, just a theory.

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Leigh, the spam bots probably come from different IPs, and even if they were from the same IP we'd be affected by that too.

He wouldn't do that.
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The bots should stop coming around now. This was the verification image you had to put in when you registered before I changed it:


This is what it is now:


They won't be able to get through that.

We can only keep banning the accounts and removing the spam they create. There may be a way of reducing the amount of them, but I'll look into that if it continues or worsens.

Welcome back dude.

The report has been taken care of.

The report has been taken care of.

I remember you. Welcome back.

Thanks everyone. I appreciate it. I'm thinking it's about that time that we get a couple hundred players on here. :D