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First, Ban all the Trolls. . . · Postby **MillyFan** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 12:01 pm

OK

I just thought he made some rather spammy posts. Sorry :red:

Postby **Gypsy** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 3:29 pm

iamjay has been banned. Nasty profile.

Postby **Rashiir** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 3:41 pm

Yes, let's not turn this into a witch trial.

Postby **uc pseudonym** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:28 pm

Red scare? Red scare? Ah! The Communists are attacking! Man the battleships! Get to the heavy artillary! Tanks! We need lots of tanks! Anyone who's wearing a vaguely Russian hat must be taken into captivity!

What could you people possibly mean by all this? I mean, not like people get unbalanced about issues or anything.

Postby **uc pseudonym** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 6:42 pm

Hm. That is a bit scary. I've noticed that almost all the time recently we've had a large number of guests on board.

Postby **Gypsy** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:52 pm

Most of that is a spider ... I think.

First, Ban all the Trolls. . . · Postby **MillyFan** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:53 pm

Resisting the temptation to make a very bad joke. :grin:

Postby **inkhana** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 8:49 pm

*gets duct tape and tapes MillyFan's mouth...just in case of bad jokes*

Postby **Ashley** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 9:05 pm

'Nother one banned: Ramandu. Inappropriate thread.

Postby **Gypsy** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 9:22 pm

Ok, let me think ... just banned tacohat, christwashere, and ... someone else ...

Postby **Gypsy** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 9:25 pm

Oh, and Heirophant.

Postby **Link Antilles** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 10:24 pm

St. Peter wrote:I did notice something unsettling.

As I type this, 62 guests are browsing our forums. Sixty-two! That's three times as many members browsing as I speak! Surely this is an indication that trolls are monitoring our movements and planning an attack.

I believe they were Google-bots...they scan the board for their search engine. Kinda freaky to see all those guest but if you look at the IP addresses (we can't, but mods can) you'd probally see they all have very similar IPs and they move around the site quickly. If I'm right there shouldn't be a need to worry about it, but I'm known to be incorrect. lol

First, Ban all the Trolls. . . · Postby **MillyFan** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:39 am

LOL

*removes tape

This seems to be endless! Isn't there something we can do to put a stop to all the trolling, like legally-especially since most of these trolls originate from one place?

Postby **ShiroiHikari** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:55 am

A big number of the guests we get are Googlebot. ::nod::

Postby **Heaven's Cloud** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 6:59 am

Yeah I saw that many guests browsing at a time. Most of them look at the archives so I dunno.

Anyway, I think the admins here are just grand. Atleast we don't have as much banning as Otakuboards did, that was just a lot. I must say you give much better reasons to ban people as well. That is another good thing.

I just think this forum is one of the best modded, and best ever, hands down. I think I am going to enjoy my stay here very well.

Postby **Razgriz** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:13 am

There was one time where over half of the "guests" were looking at IGPX-a Toonami anime thread, lol.

Postby **shooraijin** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:24 am

> A big number of the guests we get are Googlebot.

Calling dj: <META> tags, man! Get the crawlers off the forum, let them maybe crawl the title page and the list of forums/welcome mat. That would cut down on the number of phantom guests.

i.e., on /forums/, have <meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">

robots.txt might be even better:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /forums/

Postby **Rashiir** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 2:59 pm

But then it will be harder for Christians to find us.

Postby **shooraijin** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 3:10 pm

No, because the main page will still be indexed, just none of the forums beneath it.

Postby **DanekJovax** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 8:01 pm

Shooraijin makes good sense here. What he's saying is put protection on the forum thread information to prevent it from being tagged by index bots, keeping guests from freely scanning content and jumping directly there without authentication via the main page.

That latter part - authentication, I'm not sure if that's how it's set up here (I registered as soon as I came in before checking forums) but if it is, then what shooraijin suggests will help plug one hole that some trolls are getting through by.

that's my 3 yen. ;2)

Postby **shooraijin** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 12:47 pm

Authentication is accomplished through cookies, so, unfortunately, trolls are likely entering through (technically speaking) legit channels where they must provide a real username and password -- at least those who post. Those who lurk, of course, can always be guest.

What this will cut down on is "phantom" guests from web bots that blindly follow all links. I remember Shiroi one day telling me about one particular bot (an IP trace revealed it to be Inktomi) that was hitting all the 'Report Post' and 'IP: Logged' links at the bottom of all the posts, and to add insult to injury, we were able to track four separate instances of the robot (possibly more, but we just saw four IP addresses from the same netblock) doing the same thing simultaneously on multiple different areas. That really makes it hard to track activity, and is unnecessary CPU burden on this server (which really seems to have points of time during the day when access is just glacial).

Once the noise from legitimate, if misguided, automatic web crawlers is filtered out by telling them to stay away, we can then respect any guest count out there as a more reliable figure of how much lurking activity from outsiders there is, and see if that correlates with increases in troll appearances.

Postby **Gypsy** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:05 am

Yeah ... it was kind of a no-brainer and I wasn't even going to bother but ....

Oh btw, guys! I banned h3nt41.

First, Ban all the Trolls. . . · Postby **MillyFan** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 12:07 pm

St. Peter wrote:I see "h3n741" has been banned. Again, how stupid do they think we are?

Agreed. These trolls are about as subtle as a tornado. :lol:

Postby **Zilch** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 12:34 pm

[quote="Ashley"]

I take this moment to make something very, very clear: we have zero tolerance for things like nudity, profanity, and homosexuality. Things like rudeness and arrogance, we tolerate to a point. But we will only go so far. We have a strict expectation for how things run on these boards because it's something each of the mods and admins hold dear. We will not back down and we will not let trash fill our boards, no matter what the world may think of us. "Narrowminded", "arrogant"]

Ashley, I want to personally commend you on your upright thinking and prayerful lifestyle. Thank you for doing your best to keep this site clear of the debris that sadly fills our world today. I have my own board, but I can't imagine what it feels like to have to ban someone.

Prayers,

Vash

Postby **inkhana** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 2:34 pm

Vash wrote:Ashley, I want to personally commend you on your upright thinking and prayerful lifestyle. Thank you for doing your best to keep this site clear of the debris that sadly fills our world today. I have my own board, but I can't imagine what it feels like to have to ban someone.

Prayers,

Vash

Yeah, he lets Calbhach do it...he he...

Postby **LorentzForce** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 12:34 am

idiots. it's |-|3|\|741, not h3n741. can't even type proper 1337. no wonder their intellegence is as lower than my yello keyboard.

Postby **Stephen** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 9:16 pm

Ok...update. Devilbegone has been banned for being vulgar, rude, ignorant, etc etc etc. For being a troll. Also pray that I keep my patience...as one of his comments was about a person I care a great deal about.

Postby **Rashiir** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 9:20 pm

You guys should keep score.

Postby **inkhana** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:33 pm

Heh, this one's gonna rile them up, I imagine...

Scoreboard:
CAA = 5,324
Trolls = 0

he he...

First, Ban all the Trolls. . . · Postby **MillyFan** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 1:45 am

Trolls, grr :mutter:

I had the misfortune of reading some of this one's posts because the e-mail notifications don't show edits.

Anyway, what is with all the idiots online lately? Someone's going around fanfiction.net plagarizing other people's work (posting it as if it were their own), these trolls are coming back. . .did a bunch of people who were dropped by their ISPs get amnesty or something?

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