Spam Attack

Dan Rowden · Post by **Dan Rowden** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:50 am

Hello all,

As you can see we've had a visit from a very stupid person. At present I don't know of any way to bulk delete these posts so I'm having to do it one by one for now. You'll have to bear with me.

Thanks,

Dan Rowden

Elizabeth Isabelle · Post by **Elizabeth Isabelle** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:53 am

More recent posts start on (as of now) page 19, if anyone else wants to go fishing for them. There are a few older posts interspersed between here and 19, but I think I got the freshest ones out.

Dan Rowden · Post by **Dan Rowden** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:10 am

There are 18 pages of this stuff? I was too scared to look at how many there actually are...

Elizabeth Isabelle · Post by **Elizabeth Isabelle** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:13 am

I emailed you, David, and Kevin when there were only 3 pages of the stuff. Maybe one of the other two will be along soon to help clean up?

Matt Gregory · Post by **Matt Gregory** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:13 am

Do you have access to the underlying database, Dan? One SQL query can delete them all. It shouldn't be a big deal.

Dan Rowden · Post by **Dan Rowden** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:16 am

No, sadly, I don't Matt, and I can't reach Kevin, who is the only one who does..

Dan Rowden · Post by **Dan Rowden** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:25 am

Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:I emailed you, David, and Kevin when there were only 3 pages of the stuff. Maybe one of the other two will be along soon to help clean up?

Yeah, thanks for that. I probably woldn't have even looked in Genius Forum today if it wasn't for your message.

It's appreciated.

Elizabeth Isabelle · Post by **Elizabeth Isabelle** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:32 am

You're doing a good job, Dan. When you started there were 20 pages of this, now there are less than 17 pages.

Dan Rowden · Post by **Dan Rowden** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:37 am

Well, I'm getting some help from David at the moment :)

Elizabeth Isabelle · Post by **Elizabeth Isabelle** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:43 am

Good job to both of you, then. :)

Matt Gregory · Post by **Matt Gregory** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:55 am

I would just let Kevin clean it up. I'm sure it would only take him a few minutes.

David Quinn · Post by **David Quinn** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:56 am

I'm not deleting any of them at the moment. I think we should wait and see if they can be deleted in one go, as suggested by Matt.

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Dan Rowden · Post by **Dan Rowden** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:58 am

Well, that will be ok if Kevin hasn't gone away somewhere. I haven't been able to reach him.

Matt Gregory · Post by **Matt Gregory** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:00 am

So are you guys ready to install some spam protection on this board yet? :-)

Dan Rowden · Post by **Dan Rowden** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:04 am

Ok, got on to Kevin and he doesn't want to risk damaging the databse so we'll have to do it manually...

Elizabeth Isabelle · Post by **Elizabeth Isabelle** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:05 am

Matt Gregory wrote:I would just let Kevin clean it up. I'm sure it would only take him a few minutes.

Dan and David together were able to get rid of one full page in the last 10 minutes. With the two of them working together, that's close to three hours of work left.

Kevin has not posted in a week, so I don't know if that means he'll be back soon, or if Kevin takes long sabatticals.

Dan Rowden · Post by **Dan Rowden** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:09 am

A couple of friends from Future Philosphy are also now helping.

My thanks to Naturyl (Unidian) and Rory!

Elizabeth Isabelle · Post by **Elizabeth Isabelle** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:12 am

I noticed we suddenly aquired a couple of moderators.

Dan Rowden · Post by **Dan Rowden** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:21 am

At least the spammer managed to resolve his quandary..

Elizabeth Isabelle · Post by **Elizabeth Isabelle** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:23 am

And I thought of a new question for unwise's Importance of Chaos thread.

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:25 am

Dan Rowden wrote:At least the spammer managed to resolve his quandary..

Oh, well, so long as his question was answered...

~waves~

Leyla Shen · Post by **Leyla Shen** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:31 am

Fuck's sake. If I weren't so enlightened, I might be feeling paranoid since the threads of interest to me seem to be the ones that disappear into the bottomless void when this place comes under attack.

Any chance of recovering the boundaries of the Tao Te Ching thread?

(I think forums should come with child-safety locks like medicine bottles--some children are inclined to guzzle far too much than is good for them.)

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Elizabeth Isabelle · Post by **Elizabeth Isabelle** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:32 am

You're about half done already! Just a little over 10 pages to go.

Leyla Shen · Post by **Leyla Shen** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:35 am

Ask and ye shall receive.

Thanks...

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Elizabeth Isabelle · Post by **Elizabeth Isabelle** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:35 am

Leyla Shen wrote:Fuck's sake. If I weren't so enlightened, I might be feeling paranoid since the threads of interest to me seem to be the ones that disappear into the bottomless void when this place comes under attack.

Any chance of recovering the boundaries of the Tao Te Ching thread?

(I think forums should come with child-safety locks like medicine bottles--some children are inclined to guzzle far too much than is good for them.)

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I found it again, and bumped it for you.