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Whill Dark Lord of the Jedi (Owner/Admin)
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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Good point. But one of the existing questions asks what they like about the game, which already excludes people who have never played the game. Of course, there is nothing stopping them from explaining that they haven't played yet but are interested. I just haven't see that yet. Maybe I will edit that question to include interest. _________________ *
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Whill Dark Lord of the Jedi (Owner/Admin)
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 1:15 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | Username: braulatwo
What attracts you to Star Wars D6?/Why do you like it? : it amazing
How did you find The Rancor Pit? : friend |
Email address hit spammer reporting sites.
Quote: | Username: mdarifulislam
What attracts you to Star Wars D6?/Why do you like it? : For gamming skill
How did you find The Rancor Pit? : search |
Their language roll just barely missed the difficulty number. _________________ *
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Whill Dark Lord of the Jedi (Owner/Admin)
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 11:49 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | Username: buyemaillist2022
What attracts you to Star Wars D6?/Why do you like it? : gg
How did you find The Rancor Pit? : ghggf |
gg ghggf indeed. Look at this guy's requested username! He doesn't even try to hide that he is scammer scum. And of course, his email address hit multiple spam reporting sites. Clearly these people think/hope that the registration process is automated and that any text will be accepted by the system as answers to the questions.
This is why I laboriously enter each and every legit registration manually, to filter these guys out. It would probably be less work to just have automated registration and then blast the spammers after they spam the forum. But Loc Taal long ago made it manual registration. Seeing spam on these forums is rare. I hope you all appreciate the work that goes into the prevention. _________________ *
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Whill Dark Lord of the Jedi (Owner/Admin)
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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MrNexx wrote: | Whill wrote: | MrNexx wrote: | Whill wrote: | Does anyone think I should add another question to the registration request? Any suggestions? |
"Who was Leia Organa's father" is a pretty simple one that would manage the bots, at least. |
The bots are pretty easy to detect. It's some of the humans spammers that I can't always immediately dismiss so I have to spend time doing research to be sure. I'm sure a lot of human spammers have seen Star Wars so could answer that. So I'm thinking maybe a question about the game. "Which edition is your favorite?" Maybe? Or a factual questions about game mechanics? |
I'd go simple; imagine the theoretical person who wanders in here and loves the series, but is looking to learn about the system? Or wants to talk Star Wars and d20 revised (in the appropriate section), but doesn't really know d6 all that much? |
So I edited the registration question about what you like about the game to include people who haven't played it but are attracted to it for some reason.
And I added another question asking you to "Describe your Star Wars fandom." In my 34 years playing this game, I have never encountered anyone that had interest in the game who was not a Star Wars fan to some extent. And even if there is some mythical person who has never seen or doesn't like any Star Wars but still wants to play this game, then they can still describe that.
It ought to be a little easier for me to distinguish spammers from legitimate registrants, and I'm sure I'll get some funnier responses from spammers trying to get in. _________________ *
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Whill Dark Lord of the Jedi (Owner/Admin)
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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You may not realize it, but the actual purpose of this thread is for you to report spammers to me. For you to be able to do that, the spammers have to get through my registration process. Since this thread is hardly ever used for that purpose, I post the ones that don't get through.
Quote: | Requested Username: abrar1920
Describe your Star Wars fandom. : yes
What attracts you to Star Wars D6?/Why do you like it? : Yes
How did you find The Rancor Pit? : yes |
No, no, no. You're going to have to try harder than that. And of course, the registrant's email address brought up some major red alerts. _________________ *
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 1:23 am Post subject: |
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It's been over three weeks since I got one of these. Wow.
Quote: | Requested username: Ruthxva
Describe your Star Wars fandom. : Star Wars
What attracts you to Star Wars D6?/Why do you like it? : Star Wars
How did you find The Rancor Pit? : google |
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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After going a few weeks without a definite spam registration request, this week the Pit's registration form is under attack by a spammer who is taking spamming to a whole new level by spamming registration requests. The below were all received in the past few days, and are likely the same bot or non-English-speaking spammer as the one from Monday in the above post. They all have come through after midnight my time, within the first few hours of the AM.
Quote: | username: celinalb11
fandom: lanceuz16
why_like: melbail18
how_found: diannse1 |
Quote: | username: olgaze1
fandom: rosemariemy16
why_like: sybilnn11
how_found: maryloubc11 |
Quote: | username: marthadt60
fandom: robbieht3
why_like: jamiers69
how_found: barbramb60 |
Quote: | username: francineat69
fandom: araceliho2
why_like: lorriehq18
how_found: tanyaop3 |
Quote: | username: alissazx3
fandom: estherym3
why_like: evaqd60
how_found: oraom16 |
Quote: | username: emiliarf69
fandom: franklinie11
why_like: gregco1
how_found: keriac69 |
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Whill Dark Lord of the Jedi (Owner/Admin)
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 12:22 am Post subject: |
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The email filters seems to have worked in blocking the above registration requests (knocks on wood).
Lately I've registered a couple iffy people who indicated they found the Rancor Pit through defunct websites that no longer exist. It's not impossible if they are searching through saved URLs at the Wayback Machine archive. D6 Online only went offline recently, but the West End Games website hasn't existed for a very long time, and even then, the Rancor Pit would probably only appear on their old forums, which are not well archived (forums rarely are). It's also possible there may some language barriers in play for the registration requests, so I gave them the benefit of the doubt.
Please report any suspected spammer activity here or by PM. Thank you. _________________ *
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2022 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Well, after a few weeks respite from spam registrants, these came through. Both of their email addresses got hits on spam reporting sites, no surprise. The first one's email address was outlook to boot.
Quote: | username: Luorok
fandom: Luokkn
why_like: Luorph
how_found: Luoyhl |
Luonot.
Quote: | username: TheodoreMiller1
fandom: LT@@23lt23
why_like: LT@@23lt23
how_found: LT@@23lt23 |
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