Going to delete user accounts that arent' turned on

by **Rob Lang** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:05 am

I will be deleting all the users that have not been turned on manually.

If your account was in there and you're not a horrid spammer, please do re-register and then Send me an email!

Seeing as it's the middle of the night in the USA, we're unlikely to have any new registrations from bone-fide humans so I'm going to clear them now.

by **tadk** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:50 pm

So how did it go?

by **Rob Lang** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:20 am

I think there was only one person who hadn't had their account switched on and got in touch, otherwise I think we're in the clear. I wrote a nice note, apologised and switched his account on immediately after.

It took two tries as the PHP script timed out after 30 seconds - halfway through.

We're clean - for a while.

I got an MSN from Keeton, who is tired of the Spam accounts too. I hope he managed to upgrade or patch so that the better spam-stoppers is put in. Then we can remove the draconian measures of me turning on the accounts.

by **bal3000** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:44 pm

Yeah, I noticed the number of members (or should that be "members"?) listed drop by about 6,000!!!!!
Excellent work Rob! Thank you.

by **Rob Lang** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:16 am

Right, I've just burnt a lot more spammers. Sorry if you got caught up in that.

I've also improved the registration by adding a question to prove someone's humanity. As such, I've changed the 'awaiting moderation' user group to Rob Lang's Registered users and updated the permissions. If it doesn't work and we get a load of spammers, I'll put it back.

Spambots should not be able to get in with the new question: What is th surname of the President of the USA?

by **Rob Lang** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:22 am

I think a few spammers might get through using this method but we'll see. If they are then they're probably spammers who registered before my change.

by **RobLangTestAccount** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:28 am

This is my test account. Just testing.

by **Rob Lang** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:36 am

Did a final blat of users called kjsdhfklsdhfsdfh@gmail.com and the like. Hopefully my cunning anti-spam question will hold firm while I'm away.

I've asked Flamyngo (another admin) to keep an eye out to help our embattled Moderators.

Going to delete user accounts that arent' turned on

Going to delete user accounts that arent' turned on

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Just testing

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