Free cash for all. (was spam, now a conversation about spam)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:50 pm

Send all your money to saigumi!

--spam post edited by saigumi

Murphy · Post by **Murphy** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:47 pm

>Sigh<

That's at least three in the last week. Maybe it's time to turn off guest posting.

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:46 am

No kidding, but its not going to help the last one i saw was a registered member.

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:47 am

Spam for dinner anyone??

deprecated · Post by **deprecated** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:53 am

SkaterX29527 wrote:No kidding, but its not going to help the last one i saw was a registered member.

really?? who? was it a new user or an existing user?...

doesnt the irrlicht sign-up require a valid email?

spam is lame!.. when I signed up with earthlink, our *new* email address not only had a welcome message from earthlink, but about 150 spams sitting there...

Its like they welcome you with some spam, to get ya started off right.

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:42 am

Looks like a spammer to me http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... php?t=5475

Magnus · Post by **Magnus** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:04 am

we need a mod. this community is becoming big, and inevitably there is spam coming.

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:20 am

Yeah plus I have seen some post I dont think should be here. A mod could be a good thing.

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:43 am

There are no mods here??

Not a good thing.

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:22 pm

Ah... I'm the Mod.

And the reason you don't usually see them is because I wipe them at morning and night.

I removed the links this one left but am leaving the conversation.

Most of you guys missed the spamfest last year. I found a quite interesting way to stop them. I registered the guest usernames that they kept using. Something like mobo and albie.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:29 pm

can anyone become moderator or do you have to have certain skills etc? because if you are in need of moderators ...

deprecated · Post by **deprecated** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:30 pm

saigumi wrote:I found a quite interesting way to stop them. I registered the guest usernames that they kept using. Something like mobo and albie.

Nice idea... seems like they would always be stopped by something similar, unless the spambot name list was expanded to 10^N...

But, isn't there a way to require a valid email to signup with irrlicht forums?

deprecated · Post by **deprecated** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:32 pm

GFXstyLER wrote:can anyone become moderator or do you have to have certain skills etc? because if you are in need of moderators ...

Last I checked, You had to be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!

CZestmyr · Post by **CZestmyr** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:25 pm

Originally posted by deprecated:/n
Last I checked, You had to be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!
Shocked

So have you been successful or did you fall down and when you just thought you'd be smashed, you found out that the concrete is incredibly soft and you bounced off it?

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:57 pm

No, there isn't any requirement.

Niko just needed help and asked if I'd do it.

I don't have all wielding power. Heck, I don't even have mod-ability in the bug reports section. (even though I've pm'ed niko on it several times)