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#1 Jul 04 2014 at 8:57 AM Rating: Good
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2 threads left on the front page? Smiley: jawdrop
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#2 Jul 04 2014 at 9:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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I think Kao should reconsider that IP ban for all of India thing.
#3 Jul 04 2014 at 9:37 AM Rating: Good
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On the 50/page view, there's only one on page 2. Smiley: laugh
#4 Jul 04 2014 at 9:41 AM Rating: Good
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On the 100/page view there's only 7 non spam threads including the stickies, it's pretty sad.
#5 Jul 04 2014 at 9:56 AM Rating: Excellent
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At this point Kao should just complain to the Internet Provider that the Zam servers are using and have them deal with the language problem.
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#6 Jul 04 2014 at 10:32 AM Rating: Excellent
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#7 Jul 04 2014 at 10:34 AM Rating: Good
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So we need to "bump" all the other threads back to the top? Smiley: wink
#8 Jul 04 2014 at 10:54 AM Rating: Good
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#9 Jul 04 2014 at 10:57 AM Rating: Excellent
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Just be glad you can't see what I can! Smiley: lol
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I've banned about twenty spam accounts just this morning...
#10 Jul 04 2014 at 11:14 AM Rating: Excellent
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Might be time to unsticky the Wii number thread.
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#11 Jul 04 2014 at 11:50 AM Rating: Good
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His Excellency Aethien wrote:
I think Kao should reconsider that IP ban for all of India thing.


yeah.... pretty horrid what's going on
#12 Jul 04 2014 at 12:30 PM Rating: Excellent
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I am really really starting to hate India. By the time I got on today there were 3 full pages of spam topics from between 1 to 4 am. 50 different spammer accounts, a hundred different IP addresses. And to remove topic spam is a manual process. 3 clicks per thread, times hundreds of threads takes a few minutes.

And this isn't the only section of the forum they hit hard.

I've put in a request for some specific adjustments to the filters and spam removal pieces several months ago now, but there has not been available dev time to implement them so far. I am extremely frustrated about the situation and it is getting worse, not better.
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#13 Jul 04 2014 at 12:52 PM Rating: Good
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So prevent access from the subcontinent to the forums.

Does India make up a reasonable part of your subscriber base?
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#14 Jul 04 2014 at 1:07 PM Rating: Excellent
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90% if you count the spammers.
#15 Jul 08 2014 at 4:09 AM Rating: Good
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The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
On the 50/page view, there's only one on page 2. Smiley: laugh

DAOC forum: 8 pages of spammers before seeing a real post. Smiley: laugh
#16 Jul 08 2014 at 12:48 PM Rating: Good
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The forum page reminds me of a bed that's been short-sheeted.

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#17 Jul 25 2014 at 3:35 PM Rating: Good
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ugh... again... I don't even understand the point of it... it's nonsense and I don't see what these ***** are getting out of it.
#18 Jul 25 2014 at 5:52 PM Rating: Good
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Olorinus the Ludicrous wrote:
ugh... again... I don't even understand the point of it... it's nonsense and I don't see what these ***** are getting out of it.


If it brings in more money than it costs, it's worth it for them. Given the nature of the spam I'd imagine there are more sources of income generated by a site hit than just legitimate business, vs. the pittance that is likely being paid.
#19 Jul 28 2014 at 5:10 PM Rating: Good
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I just don't understand how they are making money off it. Are people clicking it? Who is that dumb? Why?
#20 Jul 28 2014 at 5:32 PM Rating: Excellent
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If you spam it on dozens or hundreds of forums some people will click on it sometimes, even if by accident. And they probably make money because they're either scam sites and they make enough off of the couple of idiots or they get paid by the owners of the sites for the generated traffic and whatnot.
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Olorinus the Ludicrous wrote:
Are people clicking it?


Yup. Plus, I'm sure this isn't the only site they're hitting. The more links out there, the more views they get.


Olorinus the Ludicrous wrote:
Who is that dumb?


The vast majority of internet users. Or anyone looking for a good time while they're waiting on their fake passports that are being printed by the people remodeling their kitchen.


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Why?


Stupidity is contagious.
#22 Jul 28 2014 at 7:21 PM Rating: Excellent
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They actually produce high quality passports. It's now my go to passport site. Helps a lot with the human trafficking.
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#23 Jul 29 2014 at 10:56 AM Rating: Good
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They actually produce high quality passports. It's now my go to passport site. Helps a lot with the human trafficking.


well they are a tenacious bunch apparently.
#24 Jul 29 2014 at 11:52 AM Rating: Good
Ban 'em all and let God sort them out.
#25 Jul 29 2014 at 11:56 AM Rating: Excellent
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Ugh, back to two again. Let's see...
#26 Jul 30 2014 at 5:31 AM Rating: Excellent
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Looks like they are putting out a full attack. The WoW tradeskill forum got hammered and so did this one and a few others. It really sucks they def need some sort of constrain on first time thread creators.
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