Oolite Bulletins

Gimi wrote:

I was Ninjaed by Smivs

HaHa! If the Katana doesn't get you the Ninjato will.

CheeseRedux wrote:

Fatleaf wrote:

Are we going to purge these or let them be?

I think it depends. When I was doing the archeology thing a little while back, my first sightings were nuked, whereas all the profiles from my last report are still alive and kicking.

There have been several purges of the 'archeological' members, whenever some of the assassins took the time to do it. I think for instance DaddyHoggy did it. But of course there will still be some 'members' who survived the purges. I doesn't hurt to kill them.

However, most posts from the beginning of the boards were lost, for instance when the BB was hacked end of last year, but even before that. This means that many legitimate members of the early days who posted a lot have now a post count of '0' to their name, so in a superficial examination they may look like spammers.

I think the 'joined' and 'last visited' time tags give a good hint. This one is legitimate, but this one perhaps never was (or if he was, he lost interest very quickly).

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xhborrisld9
https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=6809
Spammy name
No hits on SFS
NO hits on google
Tineye shows the avatar in use on 100 plus forums.
ICQ address does not exist.

Kill it.

Gimi wrote:

Tineye shows the avatar in use on 100 plus forums.

Another reason to allow spambots to post avatars ... it's just one more stick to beat them with.

Disembodied wrote:

Gimi wrote:

Tineye shows the avatar in use on 100 plus forums.

Another reason to allow spambots to post avatars ... it's just one more stick to beat them with.

Yep, and I have a nice little addon for Firefox that allows me to right click on a picture and run checks on Tineye. Your avatar gives 87 hits by the way.

On avatars: it’s possible to disable avatar changing for newly registered users, but not to disable uploads specifically, and I assume many real users will want to set up their accounts in one go. I dislike the idea of spambots cluttering up the server with avatars, but in reality I doubt it’s a significant use of bandwidth really. (Possibly Giles would like to weigh in on that one?)

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Very suspicious name - nothing in profile (yet).
Member:- opearkt01
Profile:- https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=6850

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I knew the quiet times wouldn't last...

Lumbreene https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=6863

Location Mongolia website in Polish and interested in Baseball. It's the baseball bit that really gives it away!

Blow it up.

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EricVander: https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=6871

8 other profiles started today on a wide variety of forums, and 11 hits on SFS.

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Yachting website in link.

Member:- Vorironicoold
Profile:- https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=6874

Smivs wrote:

Yachting website in link.

Member:- Vorironicoold

That's a repeat offender. There was yachting involved the other time too. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say 'twas prob'ly the same website.

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This one in a no brainer... (No offence ment to disembodied Love the new avatar )

TimSerVlad https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=6877

A load of forum memberships on Google.
54 entries on SFS.

Give it a broadside.

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others...

Whallenia https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=6886
Just spam.

Vollolley https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ile&u=6884
Tin eye came up with five results. Mostly nondescript forum memberships
But nothing on SFS. But with the web page it is spam indeed.

Get the Griff Boa out to shoot it down.

EDIT of the EDIT:- Also half ninja'd by the off milk

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Vollolley - https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=6884

It's our old friend Vorironicoold again. Still from Hungary, still peddling Polish prams.

Whallenia - https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.php?m ... ile&u=6886

Howtogainmusclequick? Eat the spam before the assassins get it!

Edit: Half-Ninja'd by the Obese Foilage.

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A bit of archeology. What do you think?...

mart https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... file&u=303
The web site is a commercial web hosting site.

olblue https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... ofile&u=45
This one looks suspect to me.

njeremic https://bb.oolite.space/memberlist.p ... file&u=465
A bit of a commercialized web page

Maybe Yes maybe no!