Richard's Animorphs Forum
RAF Section => Suggestions / Feedback & Issues => Topic started by: Hunter on September 26, 2016, 04:14:35 AM
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So I'm just wondering if anyone's noticed the crazy amount of bots (I'm assuming) that have been signing up to RAF?
I'm only mentioning it because a few of them have pretty suspicious links in the signature :/
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Yeah, and a lot say they've made a ton of new topics in the general board (that haven't been approved by mods or however it works)
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I've noticed a lot of Guests trying to post in Memoirs too, when you look at Who's Online. I suppose its for the same reason that they are trying to make new threads. Or maybe some non-RAFians consider Memoirs controversial, I dunno.
But all bot accounts are lurkers, if they register at all, I'd imagine.
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Yeah, it's a real pain. At one point we were removing up to 90 topics a day.
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Is there a way, perhaps, to find and delete bot accounts, or is that out of the question? Some way to verify that it's an actual human who holds the account?
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Well you have to answer the verification questions when you register, but I guess bots are really good at knowing that Jake is a guy :P
(http://i.imgur.com/acOW3eV.jpg)
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Hey, I'm getting weird PMs from a guy I don't know and who has made zero posts on RAF: rvdlegstrish. That is a bot-y kind of name, so I'm wondering if they're a bot. Or, more likely, a hacker: One of their messages asked if I could "do a Rachel scene," whatever the hell that means.
Has anyone else seen anything like this?
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Hey, I'm getting weird PMs from a guy I don't know and who has made zero posts on RAF: rvdlegstrish. That is a bot-y kind of name, so I'm wondering if they're a bot. Or, more likely, a hacker: One of their messages asked if I could "do a Rachel scene," whatever the hell that means.
Has anyone else seen anything like this?
Two more members reported this guy, Shen (thanks, gh and Saffa!) and there's something clearly wrong here so he's been banned.
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The message I got was simply "ya there? ;) " Not sure whose is creepier.
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Wow. I hadn't anh idea he was like that. I never got any message from him, so I guess I should consider myself lucky.
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The message I got was simply "ya there? ;) " Not sure whose is creepier.
Not gonna go into detail, but I think I had the creepiest interaction with this guy. Let's just say that I'm glad that perusing the weird side of the internet for years had conditioned my brain :P
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I had the creepiest interaction with this guy.
Debatable.
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This is not a contest :P
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Let me know if any of you get any more such messages, guys. They're evolving, constant vigilance :P
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Ash, you should know by now that I report anything and everything suspicious :P
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Yeah, you're great at it :D It was more a general request though.
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Yes ma'am!
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Now he has been in the chat. Tried to get me to go to a private chatroom with him. I refused.
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This dude's been hanging around the chatroom for a little while, lurking, and posting in non-sequitirs mostly when everyone's gone. Kinda weirding me out.
Then there was this, out of the blue, with zero context:
[spoiler]
[22:26:14] guitarhero01234: Wait now it is
[22:26:16] guitarhero01234: Wtf
[22:27:52] Memoirs Writer: Er, it's not -- (spoiler).
[22:27:52] RVDLegsTrish: Hi ya, ty for agreeing to help
[22:28:15] Memoirs Writer: I agreed to nothing.
[22:28:17] guitarhero01234: Wut
[22:28:36] XenoFrobe: ?
[22:30:11] guitarhero01234: Alright, serious question here
[22:30:12] RVDLegsTrish: I have no clue what happened just now
[22:30:27] RVDLegsTrish: Who wants to see splt?
[22:30:41] Memoirs Writer: . . .
[22:30:44] guitarhero01234: Just curious, why are you hanging around here if you got banned from the forum?
[22:30:52] RVDLegsTrish: split[/spoiler]
And that was it. Just awkward silence. No clue what he was talking about.
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I have a clue, but I'm saying nothing.
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I mean, yeah, I have a clue as to most of the "what", I just don't get the "why".
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Thank you, Cloak and Quaf, for the PMs. Well, this is certainly annoying - since chat accounts are different from forum accounts, throwing him/her off from here wasn't enough.
I've looked at the chat logs. Unfortunately, I don't have the power to ban him on chat (unless he's online) so I'll leave a PM for Richard. I'll also pop in intermittently in the meanwhile - and if any of you are online with him, please PM/whatsapp me immediately so I can say au revoir to this fanfiction aficionado.
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You da best, Ash :D
I sent you a PM about him a few days ago, I'm guessing you didn't get it?
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The last PM I got from you was on the 10th of January, around 3am my time. Fell asleep after :P That one, or did you send another?
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Sent Jan. 9 around 9:00 NY time:
Hey, just thpught I'd let you know that that rvdlegstrish guy that was banned a few days ago can apparently still get in chat. Not sure if that's really a big deal or not, but I figured I'd let you know
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That's the one, yep. I'm 6 hours ahead of you.
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I mean, yeah, I have a clue as to most of the "what", I just don't get the "why".
I don't get what any of that means
please explain
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I mean, yeah, I have a clue as to most of the "what", I just don't get the "why".
I don't get what any of that means
please explain
Please don't -- I get the feeling the less said, the better, on the subject. I do suspect RVP's reasonings to be lewd.
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The message I got was simply "ya there? ;) " Not sure whose is creepier.
I got one too. Title as "Rachel roleplay?" and in the message it was also just something like 'ya there' or something. I just deleted it because it was so nonsensical.
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I mean, yeah, I have a clue as to most of the "what", I just don't get the "why".
I don't get what any of that means
please explain
Please don't -- I get the feeling the less said, the better, on the subject. I do suspect RVP's reasonings to be lewd.
Xeno explained to me what it meant
I make jokes about writting fanfiction that are gross like what this dude says but I don't actually mean it
This is nasty
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Update: Thanks to our founding father, pesky little chat bot is gone.
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Thank God.
I mean, Richard.
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Hah! Away with ye, bot scum!
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:-)
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Make RAF Great Again!
*Hopes lighthearted sardonic tone comes across through text*
*Ah, screw it - laughs evilly*
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XD No worries, Nothing. The lighthearted tone does come through. : }