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Depends how good you are with the katana.
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"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."CheeseRedux wrote:Heh, that looks suspiciously like my pre-hack cheese...
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First "official" catch:
awningh - https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=5200
Retractable awnings, anyone?
Edit:
Ooh, look, another one!
ilxxfridmw - https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=5209
Peddling pharmaceuticals. Please purge.
First "official" catch:
awningh - https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=5200
Retractable awnings, anyone?
Edit:
Ooh, look, another one!
ilxxfridmw - https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=5209
Peddling pharmaceuticals. Please purge.
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Worth watching.
Username:- addevaFutty
Profile:- https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=5278
Website looks very suspect.
Worth watching.
Username:- addevaFutty
Profile:- https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=5278
Website looks very suspect.
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Not worth watching, it's worth deleting! Its signature is full of commercial links, it has "Service" as an occupation and it likes skiing ...Smivs wrote:Worth watching.
Username:- addevaFutty
Profile:- https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=5278
Website looks very suspect.
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Well, that's what I thought, but as I'm not an official assassin, I don't like to condemn 'people' to deathDisembodied wrote:Not worth watching, it's worth deleting! Its signature is full of commercial links, it has "Service" as an occupation and it likes skiing ...Smivs wrote:Worth watching.
Username:- addevaFutty
Profile:- https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=5278
Website looks very suspect.
I leave that to the experts.
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Your humanity does you credit, but trust me, that's a spambot. The name is random but pronounceable, and has a telltale capital letter in the middle (this is an artefact of whichever bot makes these sorts of profiles). At this point we're at about 90% on the spamometer. Then there's the fulsome personal details, listing location, age, occupation and interests: the nondescript "Service" as an occupation adds another few percent, and the sporting interest, combined with the preceding factors, tops it off (spambots love sports). The dodgy website and the signature filled with other dodgy commercial links confirm it, but if anything are gratuitous, by now.Smivs wrote:Well, that's what I thought, but as I'm not an official assassin, I don't like to condemn 'people' to death
I leave that to the experts.
If only we could harness the power of spam ... some sort of turbine, turned by spambots. We could end our dependence on fossil fuels forever. Come on, scientists, get the lead out!
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Of course I knew it was a spambot.
I'm a bit like a Paramedic arriving at some horrible accident. I know the poor guy's dead, but I can't pronounce him dead. A Doctor needs to do that.
Don't worry, though, I'll keep calling the Doctors when I spot these.
i wouldn't want the responsibility of being an Assassin. I'm happy just to be a ClockTower Watchman.
I'm a bit like a Paramedic arriving at some horrible accident. I know the poor guy's dead, but I can't pronounce him dead. A Doctor needs to do that.
Don't worry, though, I'll keep calling the Doctors when I spot these.
i wouldn't want the responsibility of being an Assassin. I'm happy just to be a ClockTower Watchman.
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That's how I started...Smivs wrote:Of course I knew it was a spambot.
I'm a bit like a Paramedic arriving at some horrible accident. I know the poor guy's dead, but I can't pronounce him dead. A Doctor needs to do that.
Don't worry, though, I'll keep calling the Doctors when I spot these.
i wouldn't want the responsibility of being an Assassin. I'm happy just to be a ClockTower Watchman.
Oolite Life is now revealed hereSelezen wrote:Apparently I was having a DaddyHoggy moment.
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If anyone can pronounce this name I'll eat a bug!
Zcrcrgtrmfxpg https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=5317
And what the heck is Kroosing? That anybody should be interested in it.
I hope it has something to do with bees. Or more to the point Halictus since that is his occupation!
If anyone can pronounce this name I'll eat a bug!
Zcrcrgtrmfxpg https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=5317
And what the heck is Kroosing? That anybody should be interested in it.
I hope it has something to do with bees. Or more to the point Halictus since that is his occupation!
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Diediadywab - https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=5313
Makes my spidey-sense tingle. Nothing on SFS/Google.
Also - or should I say in contrast?
Quaestor23 - https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=5327
Half of what comes up in a Google search makes me conclude this is a genuine user. Other half says differently. (Like the only readily visible thing on Wikipedia user acct: Hey there Quaestor23, thank you for your contributions. I am a bot, alerting you that non-free files are not allowed in user or talk space. I removed some files I found on User:Quaestor23/Monochrome BBS. In the future, please refrain from adding fair-use files to your user-space drafts or your talk page.)
But then, it's not inconceivable that more than one person would use that particular moniker.
Diediadywab - https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=5313
Makes my spidey-sense tingle. Nothing on SFS/Google.
Also - or should I say in contrast?
Quaestor23 - https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=5327
Half of what comes up in a Google search makes me conclude this is a genuine user. Other half says differently. (Like the only readily visible thing on Wikipedia user acct: Hey there Quaestor23, thank you for your contributions. I am a bot, alerting you that non-free files are not allowed in user or talk space. I removed some files I found on User:Quaestor23/Monochrome BBS. In the future, please refrain from adding fair-use files to your user-space drafts or your talk page.)
But then, it's not inconceivable that more than one person would use that particular moniker.
"Actually this is a common misconception... I do *not* in fact have a lot of time on my hands at all! I just have a very very very very bad sense of priorities."
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"Actually this is a common misconception... I do *not* in fact have a lot of time on my hands at all! I just have a very very very very bad sense of priorities."
--Dean C Engelhardt
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member:- Uxojjoxmqzjqa
Profile:- https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=5354
Website looks like a Russian book store or something.
member:- Uxojjoxmqzjqa
Profile:- https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=5354
Website looks like a Russian book store or something.
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Gamlet1987: https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=5357
Strong suspicions here: there are a lot of forums out there with members with similar "NameDate" combinations, making single posts and trailing the same fam.azzah.ru weblink in their signatures. There are also a few hits for "Gamlet" on SFS, although not with a date attached.
Gamlet1987: https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=5357
Strong suspicions here: there are a lot of forums out there with members with similar "NameDate" combinations, making single posts and trailing the same fam.azzah.ru weblink in their signatures. There are also a few hits for "Gamlet" on SFS, although not with a date attached.
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Note to self: must check the 'posts awaiting approval' more frequently... thanks a_c.
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