Archived Moderation Requests (Vol XXVIII)

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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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What sort of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
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What sort of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
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Removed. Ta muchly.
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viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1480835
More cleaning to do :)
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What sort of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
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viewtopic.php?p=7500605#p7500605
Split Spam please

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=732445
Spammers profile three posts so far
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So the maples formed a union, and demanded equal rights. The oaks are just too greedy, we will make them give us light.
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I would also at least look at what user names between 732445 and 732475 are formatted as 4 random letters followed by 3 random numbers.
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viewtopic.php?f=7&p=7500695#p7500695
viewtopic.php?f=30&p=7500675#p7500675
viewtopic.php?f=25&p=7500595#p7500595
Spam you may have missed. Yep it looks like a bot working it's way through the alphabet
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Done by me + various
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I would also temporarily block the IP address if it's the same for all those accounts.
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Maybe keep an eye on this one. 22 posts in the last hour and growing memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=732635
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Platon_ wrote:Maybe keep an eye on this one. 22 posts in the last hour and growing memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=732635

Yep, seems to be making posts just for the sake of posting. Odd. 12 AD posts in 17 minutes.
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