Archived Moderation Requests (Vol 54)

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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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Didn't we have this guy spamming around here earlier today already?
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2710025

(not even sure what he's spamming for...) :-k
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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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*Antibiotics* is no longer an allowed username. Assuming the idiot comes back with the same IP address (not likely) I'll kill that off too. Thanks :)
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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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The a-hole came back as Anti-biotic. *biotic* is no longer an allowed.
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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2710289
Should be in builds as it is about a developmental build (UX)
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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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Done. Ta
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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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howdy y'all,

this post ...
viewtopic.php?p=12876785#p12876785

... has a link in the posters sig to a site that sure LOOKS like an advertisement for various e-cigarette sources. i'm unable to decide if it _quite_ steps over the line into being a commercial link in his sig.

it seems really iffy, tho.

would some of y'all give it a once-over, please?

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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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This is not a sig. It is part of the post but apparently he used a bug in phpBB to "hide" this part from the edit function.
I can see it in the HTML source but when i click "Edit" only the part before the line is shown.

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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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Thanks. It really doesn't matter since the fellow edited all of his posts today to add it (it wasn't a real sig). I removed it and issued a warning to the fellow. If they reappear he will dispatched to the sinners' ballroom.

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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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howdy trolly & LoudNoise,

thanks y'all! it's much appreciated ... [*grin*]

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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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howdy y'all,

this post ...
New FF 22 update .. now getting "welcome" link

... is in ff support and pro'ly otta be in ff builds. would one of you splendiferous persons please move it?

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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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Could a moderator look at the code posted by the OP in this thread? Looks suspicious to me - the "signs" seem to be retrieving IP addresse and location for each person viewing that thread.
viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2709917

Is there anyway that user has tapped into the forum moderator console to retrieve that data and display it?
Any possibility that user is collecting data on each user who views that thread? Like thru a Bug in the forum software?


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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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Nothing sinister Ed we used to use code like this to freak the newbies when I was doing programming many years ago something I forgot until I had already embarrassed myself :oops: .
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http://www.danasoft.com/
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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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Damn, I cannot believe I got suckered by that :). Kindly ignore my post in that thread :)
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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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malliz,

Good to know that I'm not the only who forgets stuff like that.


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Re: Moderation / Spam / Login Activation Requests

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Among my friends at the time I was the last victim. Naturally I forgot the specifics :)
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