Date: 3/05/2020 22:30:46
From: roughbarked
ID: 1550538
Subject: What to do about bots?

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Date: 3/05/2020 22:32:27
From: roughbarked
ID: 1550539
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

roughbarked said:



i’ve asked cb88 and the answer was “I don’t know”.

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Date: 3/05/2020 22:34:39
From: dv
ID: 1550541
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

Well one thing that could be done is to give admin rights to a trusted forum regular such as PermeateFree.

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Date: 3/05/2020 22:35:14
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 1550542
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

dv said:


Well one thing that could be done is to give admin rights to a trusted forum regular such as PermeateFree.

what about me?

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Date: 3/05/2020 22:36:09
From: roughbarked
ID: 1550543
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

ChrispenEvan said:


dv said:

Well one thing that could be done is to give admin rights to a trusted forum regular such as PermeateFree.

what about me?

roll out your credits.

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Date: 3/05/2020 22:43:56
From: dv
ID: 1550545
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

ChrispenEvan said:


dv said:

Well one thing that could be done is to give admin rights to a trusted forum regular such as PermeateFree.

what about me?

Could be sibeen, could be roughbarked, could be anyone really.

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Date: 3/05/2020 22:49:50
From: roughbarked
ID: 1550546
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

dv said:


ChrispenEvan said:

dv said:

Well one thing that could be done is to give admin rights to a trusted forum regular such as PermeateFree.

what about me?

Could be sibeen, could be roughbarked, could be anyone really.

Well, I decided to try asking my son. Who knows if he’ll reply or when?

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Date: 3/05/2020 23:32:52
From: roughbarked
ID: 1550559
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

roughbarked said:


dv said:

ChrispenEvan said:

what about me?

Could be sibeen, could be roughbarked, could be anyone really.

Well, I decided to try asking my son. Who knows if he’ll reply or when?

Of course, this would require he and cb88 having discourse.

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Date: 4/05/2020 01:49:57
From: Ogmog
ID: 1550605
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

roughbarked said:



BANG!
My eye traveled down the list and was wondering the same thing
(albeit more like “Why don’t these people take a running jump..?”)
when roughbark voiced his (I assume ALL Our) Disgusted Frustration.

btw, thank you,
the notion that they were bot generated hadn’t even occurred to me..
I envisioned some lonely Semite with way too much time on his hands

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Date: 4/05/2020 06:20:58
From: roughbarked
ID: 1550611
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

the answer my son gave
to me
“Is a Cold War with bots. You implement something to stop them. They work around it”.

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Date: 4/05/2020 09:57:06
From: Ogmog
ID: 1550654
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

roughbarked said:


the answer my son gave
to me
“Is a Cold War with bots. You implement something to stop them. They work around it”.

What?
No final solution?

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Date: 4/05/2020 10:04:57
From: Cymek
ID: 1550659
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

How do the bots register the names if registration is closed

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Date: 4/05/2020 10:45:20
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1550678
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

Cymek said:


How do the bots register the names if registration is closed

Good question.

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Date: 4/05/2020 10:45:40
From: Arts
ID: 1550680
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

I mean, we could just ignore them

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Date: 4/05/2020 10:46:43
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1550681
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

What if three moderators were chosen to delete bot posts ?

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Date: 4/05/2020 10:47:05
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1550683
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

Arts said:


I mean, we could just ignore them

True.

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Date: 4/05/2020 14:05:28
From: Ian
ID: 1550790
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

Shit. A stack more of them in the last couple of hours.

They all appear to link to remmont.com which looks sorta legit.

If there is no easy technical fix to stop this can’t they be deleted manually?

I thought that SCIENCE had the keys to this place.

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Date: 4/05/2020 14:37:27
From: Michael V
ID: 1550829
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

Ian said:


Shit. A stack more of them in the last couple of hours.

They all appear to link to remmont.com which looks sorta legit.

If there is no easy technical fix to stop this can’t they be deleted manually?

I thought that SCIENCE had the keys to this place.

It’s cb88’s house.

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Date: 4/05/2020 14:40:33
From: SCIENCE
ID: 1550831
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

yeah sorry not us we only have the Archive of the Old World

we would take good custodianship of what we have but unfortunately we don’t have this

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Date: 4/05/2020 17:43:24
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1550943
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

Can all these bot names be added to a banned bot list ?

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Date: 4/05/2020 17:44:36
From: Cymek
ID: 1550944
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

Tau.Neutrino said:


Can all these bot names be added to a banned bot list ?

I wonder how they are registering or did they do a mass register a while ago when registration were open.

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Date: 4/05/2020 17:44:38
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1550945
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

Tau.Neutrino said:


Can all these bot names be added to a banned bot list ?

Maybe give the avatar list a good clean out.

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Date: 4/05/2020 17:53:41
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1550952
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

Tau.Neutrino said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

Can all these bot names be added to a banned bot list ?

Maybe give the avatar list a good clean out.

Lateral thinking.
Eliminate all posts from a user name ending in t.

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Date: 5/05/2020 06:50:26
From: roughbarked
ID: 1551174
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

The letter t has only been added to recent bots?

from my son to me
“Most people don’t notice bots so much as they are in the more visited areas of the net. There bots get quickly noticed and knocked on their head. There is often a financial incentive to keep things clean.

In the less visited corners of the net where message volume is low. Bots can drown out the real conversation. Not enough money to fix it either. Sad but true”.

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Date: 5/05/2020 07:09:40
From: roughbarked
ID: 1551176
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

Ian said:


Shit. A stack more of them in the last couple of hours.

They all appear to link to remmont.com which looks sorta legit.

If there is no easy technical fix to stop this can’t they be deleted manually?

I thought that SCIENCE had the keys to this place.

Easiest fix would be to block remmont.com

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Date: 5/05/2020 07:11:04
From: roughbarked
ID: 1551177
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

roughbarked said:


Ian said:

Shit. A stack more of them in the last couple of hours.

They all appear to link to remmont.com which looks sorta legit.

If there is no easy technical fix to stop this can’t they be deleted manually?

I thought that SCIENCE had the keys to this place.

Easiest fix would be to block remmont.com

I mean, none of us use remmont.com. So it wouldn’t be a problem for this forum but it would make them figure out another way in.

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Date: 26/05/2020 14:59:43
From: roughbarked
ID: 1562066
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

roughbarked said:


roughbarked said:

Ian said:

Shit. A stack more of them in the last couple of hours.

They all appear to link to remmont.com which looks sorta legit.

If there is no easy technical fix to stop this can’t they be deleted manually?

I thought that SCIENCE had the keys to this place.

Easiest fix would be to block remmont.com

I mean, none of us use remmont.com. So it wouldn’t be a problem for this forum but it would make them figure out another way in.

It appears as if this worked?

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Date: 26/05/2020 15:07:32
From: roughbarked
ID: 1562068
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

roughbarked said:


roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Easiest fix would be to block remmont.com

I mean, none of us use remmont.com. So it wouldn’t be a problem for this forum but it would make them figure out another way in.

It appears as if this worked?

But has it worked over here?

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Date: 26/05/2020 15:20:09
From: Michael V
ID: 1562070
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

roughbarked said:


roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

I mean, none of us use remmont.com. So it wouldn’t be a problem for this forum but it would make them figure out another way in.

It appears as if this worked?

But has it worked over here?


You may need to write to cb88.

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Date: 26/05/2020 15:21:40
From: roughbarked
ID: 1562071
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

Michael V said:


roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

It appears as if this worked?

But has it worked over here?


You may need to write to cb88.

Nobody has used the place for a good while because the bots made it impossible.

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Date: 1/06/2020 08:35:55
From: roughbarked
ID: 1565388
Subject: re: What to do about bots?

Looks like they are back.

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