Actually, I saw another
one yesturday morning. >.<
We’re
not completely free of them yet but it’s better and we have better monitoring now to. =)
Oh well, if
you need help I’m ready.
We’ve had a few bots recently,
but please don’t post in their threads.
~~=oP
Just a question, do you just delete their posts and the member as well? Or is it just the
posts?
[color=indigo:3bfk0xmc]Well, it all depends on the situation at
hand.
There are 2 types of bots. Some are harmless, but most are nogoodniks lookin’ for a swift kick in
the behind.
The nogoodniks are removed even if they don’t make any posts yet. Their usernames say it
all.
The fates of the harmless bots are in Dash’s hands after I remove the
posts.
~~=oP[/color:3bfk0xmc]
I’ve seen them some more recently, quite a sharp increase too.
Hmm, ditto. But they do get sorted out
very quickly.
Thank goodness most of those evil bots are getting a taste
of their own medicine! Of course, they would still be here if it wasn’t for that wonderful team of Pixar Planet
supervisors.
Thank you for keeping the boards clean, guys. Keep up the good work! 
[quote="PixarVixen":3w1oqwx8][color=indigo:3w1oqwx8]The nogoodniks are
removed even if they don’t make any posts yet. Their usernames say it all.
~~=oP[/color:3w1oqwx8][/quote:3w1oqwx8]
I think I’ve noticed that they if you look in
their profiles, they all seem to have ICQ, also. I haven’t checked, but I know that if you scroll over the
link, you can see the ICQ number in that gray bar… thingy at the bottom of the screen (in Internet Explorer),
and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if all the bots had the same number. I’d be surprised if they
[i:3w1oqwx8]didn’t[/i:3w1oqwx8] actually. So that could help us be 100% whether a user who hasn’t posted
yet is indeed a bot or not.
They also appear to have been born on the exact same day, March 28, 1983. LOL That,
and they’re all residents in the USA.
Puh-leez!
~~=oP
And their ocupation and intrests are similar and are stuff practically none of us are
intrested in.
That’s what I said. I think
the person who’s registering maybe delebrately doing that, cuz think about it, who would be that stupid to put
the same info as they did with their old account(s)?
The question that really ponders my brain is this. If
it is the same person, why do they keep coming back? Why can’t they just leave us alone? It makes me mad to see
these bots just ruin one of the best Pixar fansites I have ever seen. I would rejoice, sing, dance, shout, and
thank God when this bot problem has been solved.
Maybe because they have a sad pathetic life & they are
seeking attention.
They remind
me of some of those annoying telemarketers, who when you tell them you don’t have time for them, they just call
back the next day. -_- XD
What an impolite way to seek attention. Have they no hearts? No brains? Surely
they must have read somewhere “only PG rated material.”
[b]PV: I?ve
noticed that to.[/b]
Ehem – the bots are back:
[b]*edited by PixarVixen
~~=oP*[/b]
I’m not exactly sure if the second submission qualifies as an
“attack” or not, but it is rather suspicious.
Well, their posts are gone now. But we still have
persistant bots. But I think moderation has been doing a good job so far.