Um, soo many members?

oxynic · Post by **oxynic** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:27 pm

Why is there like 10 pages of members with random jibberish?

I was just browsing and saw the latest member and went to memberlist.
Went back alot of pages and wow...

Just asking.

-oxynic

Rallos · Post by **Rallos** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:29 pm

Halomods is getting spam-attacked again -_-
I noticed it a couple hours ago, this is the second time it has happened.

oxynic · Post by **oxynic** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:31 pm

wow.

Thats really weird.

wes · Post by **wes** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:31 pm

just to clear things up, it wasn't me

but if you do look at it, it does seem pretty funny.. the usernames i mean

Le_Loup · Post by **Le_Loup** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:32 pm

Yeah I looked to, I thought ppl were just signing in with random e-mails to get the user count higher, but I don't think that 100 ppl would be this organized to do that.....

Le_Loup

oxynic · Post by **oxynic** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:36 pm

Lmao loup.

Yea, I dont think someone will register 100 times with random names.
That will just be time consuming.

Pie · Post by **Pie** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:18 pm

Its a registration bot.

When Ravn pointed this out to me, my first reaction was.

LMFAO

oxynic · Post by **oxynic** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:27 pm

Yea...

Its funny when couple hundred members register all within a few hours lmao.

Cant wait to see what happens to all of them.
are the admins going to just delete them? Or jsut leave em as is?

Pie · Post by **Pie** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:10 am

Couple Hundred? My ass, *goes through all 500 pages of users*

807 accounts of randomly generated numbers and letters on March 2 2006

141 accounts of randomly generated numbers and letters on January 29 2006

57 accounts of randomly generated numbers and letters on January 28 2006
308 accounts beginning with 'AHG_' then a series of numbers ranging from two to three, on January 28 2006(as well)

491 accounts beginning with 'AHG_' then a series of numbers ranging from one to three, on January 25 2006

66 accounts of randomly generated numbers and letters on January 21 2006

48 accounts of randomly generated numbers and letters on January 17 2006

3942 accounts of randomly generated numbers and letters on January 15 2006

2389 accounts of randomly generated numbers and letters on January 14 2006

139 accounts of randomly generated numbers on November 13 2005

52 accounts beginning with 'NsT_' then a series of numbers ranging from two to three, on October 12 2005

39 sccounts beginning with 'NsT_' then a series of numbers ranging from two to three, on October 9 2005

8479Spambot users.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:17 am

but what would you get if you included all the members with 0 posts?

DECOY · Post by **DECOY** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:16 am

It long passed time someone went through the members list and deleted inactive accounts.....

Kurroda · Post by **Kurroda** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:05 am

yeah it doesnt take couple of hours in a couple of hours it would be about 20,000 users i have program i found one day and i set up a test forum to do it on and it did 1000 users with in less then 5 minutes

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:24 am

DECOY wrote:It long passed time someone went through the members list and deleted inactive accounts.....

Nah, that's pointless. Blank accounts don't hurt us, unless it's this type of thing. Once they're created, it's not a problem.

DECOY · Post by **DECOY** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:54 am

My modded adminCP at HPC logs the IP of people who open the registration page, rather than just logging the posting IP on the board.

I had a series of multiple registration attempts from the same IP at the same time this morning. I was able to block the IP's. I still have them logged if admin here wants them, they dont match any of the members at HPC.

Le_Loup · Post by **Le_Loup** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:35 am

nice work on counting how many ppl were log'd but couldn't it have been multiple people? And what if one of them was going to possibly become the next generation modder at halomods? Why ban them all if one could have been a pro? O_O

Le_Loup

Kurroda · Post by **Kurroda** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:58 am

seriously just make a back up of your mysql daily so that way you can replace the messed up one with the back up

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:23 pm

Just a spambot. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Halomods needs an anti-spambot registration code.

A bot doesn't know what to type in there, so it can't register. We need to install a mod for that.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:43 pm

but we need a constant active admin to do it.

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:56 pm

That would be Locke. And if not, maybe even Aztec. I thought he was long gone, but he actually posted a little recently. Does anyone know his AIM screen name?

Pie · Post by **Pie** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:07 pm

I'd do it, but they stripped my rank when I left