Sticky How can T2W better serve its community?

Sharky said:
All 437 new members that have joined today have been deleted. We're also manually approving any new first posts from a member for the next few days, at least.. so shouldn't be any more :poop:
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Nooooooo
But what about my followage......

What a world, what a world!

Lol
 
Yeah the Q&A didn't work, I think these days bots are too smart for that, they can figure out the answers. For now we'll just have to manually approve. As CavaliereVerde pointed out there are new members from previous days too, which haven't been deleted, but since we're now moderating all first posts, none will litter the forum. I expect the numbers of members online to get back to normal in the next few days.
 
Nowler said:
Not to brag. (exactly what I am doing) .. but I got 20 at least ;)
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It seems I'm in a league of my own - I got 80!
:p

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timsk said:
It seems I'm in a league of my own - I got 82!
:p
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Don't be such a hog then bud!
Divvy some out to the rest of us.

Stop keeping the little man down Timsk :)

I've had way too much coffee today...
 
Nowler said:
Don't be such a hog then bud!
Divvy some out to the rest of us.

Stop keeping the little man down Timsk :)

I've had way too much coffee today...
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Fear not Nowler, 1 alert was a like from you and another was a reply from barjon, so my score go down to 80!
;-)
 
@Sharky,
If you have deleted the spambots, will they disappear off my list of followers?
Or, can I remove them myself?
Thanks

Good work stopping them spammy hordes.
 
You can delete them Trendie. I've noticed a lot are come from Philippines, so I've added some extra protection there. I've shut down registration temporarily until they lose interest. They can't post without getting their post approved, so they'll soon figure out they're waiting their time here. Thanks for the heads-up all!
 
Sharky said:
You can delete them Trendie. I've noticed a lot are come from Philippines, so I've added some extra protection there. I've shut down registration temporarily until they lose interest. They can't post without getting their post approved, so they'll soon figure out they're waiting their time here. Thanks for the heads-up all!
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Do you find that this sort of thing increases dramatically as markets become more manic?
Just like the million ads I have been increasingly getting over the past 12 months when watching Youtube.
Ones far less sophisticated than what I usually see
 
Nowler said:
Do you find that this sort of thing increases dramatically as markets become more manic?
Just like the million ads I have been increasingly getting over the past 12 months when watching Youtube.
Ones far less sophisticated than what I usually see
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No really, to be honest, I can't recall the last time we had such an onslaught. I do think that the level of sophistication has gone up a level, you can imagine if we had a lot more traffic, it could easily go unnoticed, they seem to be able to get around all the recaptcha's available, as well as custom Q&As; quite possible there's a whole bunch of actual people in a third world country assisting with it all. I think after Gamestop people have woken up to the power of the collective, so I expect we'll have much more of this going forward. :/

Raise the drawbridge!!!
 
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    Hi Paul,
    A few more for you - minus your good self of course!
    :p
    Tim.



 
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    Hi Paul,
    A few more for you - minus your good self of course!
    :p
    Tim.


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It's funny how everyone with an ounce of sense realised it was a scam, but one in-duh-vidual actually thought he had become really popular and complained to Sharky how unfair it was that one of the mods (Trader333) was deleting his followers.
His plea ... "By deflecting newbioes away from my Profile it is setting them up for failure as the rest of your site geniasses are dumbphucks. Is this what you want? For newbies to fail right at the starting gate? Keep an eye on Trader333. Dolbeck is dirty! "

We all know who it is ... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Trader333 said:
It wasn't even me who deleted them which goes to show just how easy it is to spread false information and fake news.
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We learned from MSM. So it is not fake news !

Fox news anchor interviews President Trump and refers to Biden as Biden. :ROFLMAO: Priceless !

 

We have a lot of members that register and than desappear after 5 minutes.
I think they are all bots.
What about deleting every member with 0 comments after one month from registration?
There is no point in subrscribing a forum if you have nothing to say.
 
CavaliereVerde said:

We have a lot of members that register and than desappear after 5 minutes.
I think they are all bots.
What about deleting every member with 0 comments after one month from registration?
There is no point in subrscribing a forum if you have nothing to say.
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Disagree.
It was at least 3 months before I made my first post simply because I didnt want to make a fool of myself first time (like everything in life). Now I dont care if I make a fool of myself obviously.
Firstly whats the benefit of deleting new members with no posts?
If there is a benefit then a simple sql query on the average time for a person to make a post after registering (plus at least one standard deviation to keep at least 66% of the real members) would be a more scientific approach.
 
postman said:
It was at least 3 months before I made my first post simply because I didnt want to make a fool of myself first time (like everything in life). Now I dont care if I make a fool of myself obviously.
Firstly whats the benefit of deleting new members with no posts?
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Ok let's extend it to 3 months...
The point is, you can read the forum as guest and register when you want to ask/contribute.
What's the point of thousands of fake members?
I think a real member would at least writ a comment in the "introduce yourself" thread.
 
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