Oolite Bulletins

SandJ wrote:

Is that a rule too?

Only in exceptional cases! A maximum of three nested quotes is a rule, that much I know!

<Smivs thinks this thread is getting unruly>

<Gimi thinks this thread development is in accordance with rule #4>

Now where is this lock button again...

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Quite often when I am looking at the Who is online page I see a few Guests that the column "Forum location" reads "registering account". Are these people who fail to register or bots that get stuck at the reCAPTCHA or a mix of both? Or even something entirely different!

Fatleaf wrote:

Quite often when I am looking at the Who is online page I see a few Guests that the column "Forum location" reads "registering account". Are these people who fail to register or bots that get stuck at the reCAPTCHA or a mix of both? Or even something entirely different!

A mix of both – except they're not at the reCAPTCHA stage: I think new members now have to respond to an email to verify that the email account they've supplied is real. That prevents industrial-scale bot-registration. So "Registering account" probably means "signed up but not yet responded to the email".

The good news is the current system seems to be working well. Spam seems to be at an all time low

Smivs wrote:

The good news is the current system seems to be working well. Spam seems to be at an all time low

>Looks longingly at the Katana above the fireplace and reflects back on the "Good ol Days" when he was up to his stem in spam bot blood<

Fatleaf wrote:

>Looks longingly at the Katana above the fireplace...<

I use mine for peeling the spuds!

I was going through a few older posts and came across this profile and was just really curious... Never seen a Banned before!

Fatleaf wrote:

I was going through a few older posts and came across this profile and was just really curious... Never seen a Banned before!

Looking at the posts he'd made its not really surprising...

Pleb wrote:

Fatleaf wrote:

I was going through a few older posts and came across this profile and was just really curious... Never seen a Banned before!

Looking at the posts he'd made its not really surprising...

Yeah, I was thinking that. But why not just delete the profile and be rid of the fool?

It's like the head on a spike...old Blundercarrot is a warning to all of the dire consequences of being offensive.

Fatleaf wrote:

Yeah, I was thinking that. But why not just delete the profile and be rid of the fool?

Don't agree with that. Keeping the user name banned ensures he is unable to register under the same name. And also, since discussions related to this issue, and other dark things from the past pop up every now and again, it shows for all that there is a limit to what is tolerated. I think that is a good thing.

Gimi wrote:

Fatleaf wrote:

Yeah, I was thinking that. But why not just delete the profile and be rid of the fool?

Don't agree with that. Keeping the user name banned ensures he is unable to register under the same name. And also, since discussions related to this issue, and other dark things from the past pop up every now and again, it shows for all that there is a limit to what is tolerated. I think that is a good thing.

That makes a lot of sense. Also like Smivs' "Head on a Stick"