I never thought I'd write in praise of the thumb-down option, but ...
Isn't it great (while we wait for our current nuisance poster to unblock the grey matter between his/her ears & finally become bored with non-stop nuisance posting) that those posts can simply be thumbed-down? Or completely ignored.
I saw 2 refereces to a "Spambot" this AM. Was there one and what did it appear as? I always miss these plateaus of our civilization.
I taped a bunch of "Perils of PAline" from the TCM channel and was playing them . I went to sleep over the damn things and they spooled all night so both my wife and I incorporated the stories into dreams. Silly tv
I saw 2 refereces to a "Spambot" this AM. Was there one and what did it appear as? I always miss these plateaus of our civilization.
An endless, really fast stream of almost identical postings to "New Posts", farmer.
With no actual posted comments, just: "..."
I'd say (guessing here) 3-4 pages of New Posts-worth.
Relentless.
I decided it was an excellent time to go out for coffee & cake with a friend.
When I returned some hours later, it was (finally) all over.
There's something i wouldn't bother with, i'd just go away. It was easier here, because it was already late in the evening--but when the site is down for maintenance during daylight hours here, it doesn't bother me. I come here because i'm online for another reason already.
I'd say (guessing here) 3-4 pages of New Posts-worth.
At one point it was more than 17 pages.
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msolga
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Sun 29 Apr, 2012 07:23 am
@ossobuco,
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MsOlga, it was at least 25 pages of spambot -ery. A few of us posted on chat, and there Thack said he estimated to be at least 750 posts. Ugh.
That many?
Yikes.
It was around 2 or so at the time I went out.
But then, come to think of it, I'd thumbed so many down, it was hard to tell how many normal-sized pages that would have been ....
I was thumbing down but it dawned on me there might have been countless posts so I looked at further back pages - and the 1 2 3 thing at the bottom only went as far as twenty five; I looked as I worked my way to 25 and most pages were a complete blanket of spam. Fascinating in a strange way, why anyone would do that.
It's a program...automated. Denial of service attempt by a malicious do-nothing hacker.
I saw the nutcase had 980 posts over their 4-hr-stay on A2K before I fell asleep.
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CalamityJane
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Sun 29 Apr, 2012 10:05 am
@msolga,
You don't need to thumb down, MsOlga.
Just put the culprit on ignore and then go to "filter noise" (right under new post) and you won't see any of your ignored threads.
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