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Postby Mr. Tines » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:18 pm

You may have observed that there is a now more active zero-tolerance policy for spam -- not only are the messages deleted, but the spammer ID is too -- as are link-spam accounts that just put a link into their profile to a site that contains irrelevant material.

After a first go-over, there are still a few inactive accounts, some seeming to have "fannish" attributes, others completely blank.

As you don't need a log-on account to just lurk, I would encourage those of you who are signed up but just lurking to make yourselves known to the rest of us (in the welcome thread in off-topic). Some of you seem to used your accounts as a way to park links to your sites; these links have been moved to your signatures as an incentive.

At the end of this month, all accounts opened before today, and with a zero post count will be cleaned away. A similar cleaning of month-old unused accounts will become a regular monthly event.
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Postby AuthenticM » Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:14 am

Needless to say: about damn time.
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Postby Eternal Yamcha » Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:50 am

Wait... There wasn't an automatic IP Ban for spamming the site? Well... I mean bot spamming, not uhm... You... You know what I mean. Pills that make things bigger... Casino... Yeah.

Meh, good things are about to happen... I'm tired. Glad to hear there's going to be a nice little purge.

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Postby reagen » Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:09 am

There's actually THAT much lurker on this site? Hmm..., I never noticed that!! Well, do what must be done...for the better of the site!! :D
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Postby InvaderRen » Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:35 pm

*fulfills monthly quota

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Postby Mr. Tines » Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:46 pm

reagen wrote:There's actually THAT much lurker on this site? Hmm..., I never noticed that!!


Last time we had a purge of all unused accounts, one surprised lurker posted to ask why his logon had been deleted. So I'm being mindful of that.

InvaderRen wrote:*fulfills monthly quota


It's not meant to be a post-a-month; so long as you have posted to demonstrate that you are not a spammer, that's enough. It's post counts of zero that are anomalous.
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Postby fadingreminder » Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:55 pm

I suppose I picked a good time to become active again, eh?

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Postby Xanatose » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:01 pm

So I should stop lurking? I can make an effort, but old habits die hard.
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Postby Mr. Tines » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:06 pm

This is only intended to clean up the strays on this page (and 3 more on the next page): http://evageeks.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=posts&order=ASC&start=0
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Postby Master » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:27 pm

Finnaly! We are going to burn the unbelivers and heritics! Also, can we rat out people whom we suspect to be SPAMers?
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Postby The Bastard King » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:33 pm

Well, those one's are usually banned on the spot. I mean, it's kinda obvious that normal users wouldn't post about "ipen15 pump5!" and the like.
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Postby Master » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:35 pm

Well how about if they go around and advertise on PM's?
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Postby Mr. Tines » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:39 pm

Master wrote:Well how about if they go around and advertise on PM's?


If you get such PMs, please forward them to an admin.
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Postby Trigger's Elysium » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:24 pm

Master wrote:Finnaly! We are going to burn the unbelivers and heritics! Also, can we rat out people whom we suspect to be SPAMers?


...SPAM? Oh please, have you heard about that moderation system or something? It's the very worst on the planet.
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Postby Mr. Tines » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:35 pm

Well, the Stalinist purge has been executed.

I would encourage all our real human Eva-fan lurkers to put something in their profile that indicates their fannish credentials -- otherwise I have to go purely on texture of e-mail address and the like to get a gut-feel.

I shall put up another reminder mid-month, and do another (smaller) purge on Beltane.
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Postby Mr. Tines » Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:44 pm

Here comes the first mid-month reminder -- lurkers should at least make their profiles look fannish, even if they can't quite bring themselves to post.

Mods/Admins -- if you nuke a spam post, could you PM me the user name, so I can apply the hammer.

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Postby Timesplitter 01 » Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:04 am

Well I am still here. Just been very busy.

This has been a long, long, long, long time coming.

Well done on the clean up :wink:
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Postby Mr. Tines » Sun May 13, 2007 4:44 am

Given the change of activation policy this should be the last of these warnings for the moment.

If you have an account and are just lurking; and your profile does not look fannish, please add some indication that you are a genuine lurker. This especially applies to those people whose location currently reads "Pending".

In two weeks time I shall do the usual end of month clean-up of zero-post-count accounts and purge those which are not obviously "one of us".
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Postby Executor » Sun May 13, 2007 12:21 pm

InvaderRen wrote:*fulfills monthly quota

Ah, monthly quotas. Already beaten on that.
Good clearing, we can only hope it'll work.

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Postby THE Hal E. Burton 9000 » Sun May 13, 2007 1:48 pm

Master wrote:Finally! We are going to burn the unbelievers and heretics! <snip>
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