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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.
I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.
I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.
Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.
Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.
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I killed them all and analyzed their (very predictable) posts and added their favourite keywords to the list of DOOM (basically any new person using those words in a post is very unlikely to have it actually be posted).
The reason they got through is because...
1) I had recently made the spam filters slightly more lenient because a legit person had his posts marked as spam.
2) They weren't using that many links. Mostly phone numbers. Weird.
Thanks to the people who tried to get some entertainment out of it with the blog things... I found those amusing.
And to everyone bitching about where I was... I do SLEEP, you know.
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It seems the keyword blocking thing doesn't block posts unless they have LINKS in them... :(
I shall plot something else.
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Whoa whoa whoa...Soul sleeps?
So she's not an all-powerful robot that has conquered half of the southern hemisphere and rallied the zombie pirates against the space robot space monkeys from space? That's news to me.
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GLaDOS lies. We must summon babaji!
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(01-02-2014 03:43 AM)DoA Wrote: Whoa whoa whoa...Soul sleeps?
So she's not an all-powerful robot that has conquered half of the southern hemisphere and rallied the zombie pirates against the space robot space monkeys from space? That's news to me.
Not just you, apparently. Can't be helped, I suppose the secret's out of the bag... newsflash, everyone: I am, in fact, human, after all.
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Why are you using black magic anyway? Dark green usually does the trick with less difficulty.
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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UPDATE: Killed all the new ones again, installed a new plugin to automatically un-approve all posts containing certain words. If it works, that should stop the little fuckers dead in their tracks. I'll still have to delete them though... lol. But maybe eventually they'll realize they're not actually posting anything and give up? >_>
If that doesn't work I'll make my own damn plugin. How hard can it be? xD
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baba ji now what? Sorry. I had to do this
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How hard can it be?
*Two days later site gets renamed Spam Survival*
(Way to go Soul. You ended creating the T-plugin that ended up infecting the entire web population and turned them into mindless spammers)
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Any explanation why there are still some more posts of these god damned spambots? You may have to block all the IPs in India to stop them for good!
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Not sure how those got past...
Might have to modify that plugin. It does work, at least, some of the time...
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Turned off the post count setting, just as a test.
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What does that setting do, anyway? Is that the one that makes those weird messages appear at the top of individual user's pages?
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What weird messages? This setting makes the filter apply to everyone regardless of post count.
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This kind.
"user needs more posts"...the heck?
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It says "user needs more posts" on every user's page who has a post count of more than about 1,000, from what it looks like.
For users that haven't posted much, it says "user has required PC".
For Soul it says "user is exempt". :0
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oh... I have no idea what that's all about. Hmmm...
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Sounds like it's related to the filter. Whatever it is, it's obviously broken. (Also, it's been this way on my end for months, at least. Didn't really get in the way of anything, so I didn't report it.)
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Googling it shows that many other forums have it, but nothing about why.
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Illuminati conspiracy no doubt...
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Seems the spam filter was able to stop the next batch of spambots. They kept trying to post in the School Talk and coincidentally the Blogs section, but failed! One actually had the courtesy to give themselves a really strange and creepy avatar. Something tells me they'll be back though.
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Did any get through? A shitload were caught in the filter. Don't think you guys can see them though.
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Registering is still fine. Cool, so far so good.
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Hansgrohe, can I has a link to that one spambot?
Pretty Much my only signature...I'm mainly a lurker....you can find me on the IRC (or on DnE and their IRC).
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The one with the creepy avatar?
Unfortunately I think Soul took down that said avatar. It probably had something to do with the Indian black magic they were trying to sell.
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Aw, I wanted to see it. :/
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My spambot killer automatically removes their avatar and other profile stuff too.
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