Reporting spam

[Cody]

Winterfest approaches! A whole page of new 'inactives' slaughtered!

[Disembodied]

Yes, it's that magical time of the year … Spamta Claus's little elves do seem to be gearing up.

[Cody]

Using my name? How very dare they!

[Disembodied]

Using my name? How very dare they!

Kill it twice!

[Cody]

Ah yes, Killit - now that was an 'interesting' OXP!

[Cody]

Damn - ninja'd!

[Disembodied]

Don't worry - another one will be by in a minute!

[Cody]

Most users ever online was 3583 on Sat May 22, 2021 23:02

Crikey! That's more than our total membership!

[Disembodied]

Sheesh … I'm surprised the forum didn't go down, with that many hits!

It's a bit weird: the Sunday morning cleanup wasn't even that busy - maybe five? And none of them even getting as far as attempting to lay their eggs on the board.

[Nite Owl]

And none of them even getting as far as attempting to lay their eggs on the board.

Has some sort of "Automatic Ovipositor Removal System" been added to the forum recently? As painful as that may be for the Ovipositor's Owner it would be more desirable then something bursting through the forum's chest and turning into who knows what.

[Cody]

Big D means none of them had actually registered (and attempted to post), they were only 'guests' (possibly testing our shields).
Normally, only a few hundred guests might be present at the very most - 3583 guests is extraordinary!

[Cholmondely]

Big D means none of them had actually registered (and attempted to post), they were only 'guests' (possibly testing our shields).
Normally, only a few hundred guests might be present at the very most - 3583 guests is extraordinary!

They are all desperate to hear the words of wisdom from the lips of the Dubbed Prophet of the Witchspace Lobster, obviously...

Back in the days when you were languishing in obscurity, they knew not... but now that they do ...

[Disembodied]

Has some sort of "Automatic Ovipositor Removal System" been added to the forum recently? As painful as that may be for the Ovipositor's Owner it would be more desirable then something bursting through the forum's chest and turning into who knows what.

Not necessary. Every member's first post has to be manually approved - so even when a bot does get through the registration process, their package of spam never makes it to public view.

It occurs to me that maybe most of those 3583 guests were actually legitimate … if someone linked to a post on this BB on another, more crowded forum, we might get a sudden surge.

[Cody]

… if someone linked to a post on this BB on another, more crowded forum, we might get a sudden surge.

Possible, yes. Wish I'd noticed it at the time, I would've had a trawl through them.
That "The Knowledge AI" I mentioned currently has five of its tentacles present.

[hiran]

Big D means none of them had actually registered (and attempted to post), they were only 'guests' (possibly testing our shields).
Normally, only a few hundred guests might be present at the very most - 3583 guests is extraordinary!

Have these hits been on the forum or the wiki?

If there are numerous read attempts on the wiki there is a chance I am running the OXP scan process that checks which of the OXPs/equipment/ships (about 10k items) actually has a wiki page present. To limit the time these 10k pages are checked I am running the check in parallel on 100 threads from my side...