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FWIW, I'm a mod on another forum and I have to manually activate everyone. It's very rare a bot actually gets through. Most of the time you can tell immediately from their username or email address if it's a bot so it's pretty quick to delete them in large batches. But you have to be careful because every once in a while a username will look "spammy" (i.e. it has some of the tell-tale signs of an obvious bot username) but if the email address looks like a "maybe-not-spam", it's best to research further before deleting it. As for all the "hopefully real people" that seem legit, I still check them all against https://stopforumspam.com/search and https://www.iplocation.net/ . You occasionally have to use some judgement because sometimes someone's IP will show up in stopforumspam, but if it's only listed once or twice or it's from a year ago or they're clearly using a different, legit-looking email address than the ones in stopforumspam, then they're probably not a bot...assuming the IP address also checked out via IPlocation and isn't in Russia, Finland, etc. |
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04-12-21, 07:43 PM | ||
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Modify City, State of Fierce
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04-12-21, 07:44 PM | ||
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Modify City, State of Fierce
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Don't just work hard, work smart....Pat Head Summitt Never give up on your body!-- Miranda Esmonde-White Word/Guiding Principle for 2024: Embrace: embrace my faith, my family, my friends, myself, the process, the progress, the hard work, the strength program I choose, the recovery methods and rest I need, my life, the good times, and the memories of good people. |
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04-12-21, 10:12 PM | |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: West coast of Canada, eh. ;)
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Not surprised to hear that Linda. Perhaps this thread will discourage them from lurking?
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04-13-21, 05:48 AM | |
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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At 5:45 am I find that there are 12 "new" members logged on and only 4 old members. Most of the 12 "new" ones have been logged on continuously for days and none of their profiles are available for viewing. Sad.
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