fluffhead77 Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 What's with all the spam posts around here lately? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybone Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Mikey is on it.Pain in the ass to fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Do you suppose Spam sells more, less, or the same amount of canned meat now that the name has been co-opted?They get a lot of free advertising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 They actually still make/sell spam? I honestly thought that stuff was discontinued over a decade ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Unemployment Rates by Country Canada 7.2 2011 (July) United Kingdom 7.6 2011 (March) United States 9.2 2011 (August)...I'm sure they're doing alright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Let me know if I can help Mike! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 My favourite invitation to dine ever:Velvet (circa 1995) - "Can I offer you a mock-SPAM sandwich?"(I declined.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffhead77 Posted September 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 My favourite invitation to dine ever:Velvet (circa 1995) - "Can I offer you a mock-SPAM sandwich?" (I declined.) Was it KAM? Or Poreef? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meggo Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 apparently spam is really popular in okinawa. true story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 i really appreciate the offers to help but the only solution I have right now is to use the admin features to delete users, then do a massive delete query on anonymous posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Hey bouche, I noticed the video forum is gone, is that a temporary thing while you do damage control?Just curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 temporary damage control. lowroller suggested that to minimize cleanup. I can't think of everything. I've deleted about 1000 accounts that were all spammers. One by frikkin one. I found that Firefox was great for doing it though because I could minimize the amount of clicks, submit the delete form with the enter key (safari forced an extra click) and then I learned that I could close the 20 or so tabs (I did about 20 tabs worth at a time) by right clicking on my search page and "close all other tabs".Now I have to close the forum down, take a backup while it's much cleaner and then test my delete anonymous posts sql.likely in the next 15 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 getting there. no new spam should show up. I still need to clean up the 300 or so spam posts but my test query didn't work. Who's good at mysql here? I have a select that pulls them out, but my syntax is f'd for the delete of the same dataset.also, NO NEW registrations have been logged since the big cleanup and lockdown today. we're getting back our land! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Awesome. Still haven't heard back from the guy about the user group deal, I think he may be on holidays from the sounds of it. But one of the other mods I emailed thinks they did what you were thinking you may have to do about making a new group for existing members then creating a group for new users, but he couldn't confirm. And it was a vBulletin board too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 apparently spam is really popular in okinawa. true story.It's massively popular in Korea. People think I'm crazy when I tell them that it is considered the lowest form of food available. On Monday I was at my sister-in-law's place for a big holiday meal. One of the gift bags someone brought her was a giant package of Spam and canned tuna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Awesome. Still haven't heard back from the guy about the user group deal, I think he may be on holidays from the sounds of it. But one of the other mods I emailed thinks they did what you were thinking you may have to do about making a new group for existing members then creating a group for new users, but he couldn't confirm. And it was a vBulletin board too.if found some php code that automatically places new registrants into a specific group. I can change that without much effort other than making sure I document it for the day I update the forums...the code will have to change again. I'd rather not do it that way so I may just assign y'all to a new group....yet unnamed but I have one in mind. Rhymes with thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 My favourite invitation to dine ever:Velvet (circa 1995) - "Can I offer you a mock-SPAM sandwich?"(I declined.)I think I still have some if you change your mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 As I recall you had a couple hundred cans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Two completely different conversations happening at the same time here.... both on topic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 a couple of hundred cans of spam might be currency in velvet's world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 they make good partitions in a bunker situation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 didn't update the site yet. I did a backup last night and it took hours. I'll close down again tonight and rebackup the database. That part just takes a few minutes...and then I should be able to update the site and turn it back on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted September 16, 2011 Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 install failed. will try again tomorrow after some consultation. There's a table missing. Not sure why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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