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A plea from the moderators
To those of you using Fred's really, really cool nym generator:Please stick to one nym per day for the next little while. Rantburg is being hit extremely hard by spam right now. Fred and badanov have been working madly under the hood to control it, including banning entire IP thingies that appear to be connected to bot thingies (you technical people already know what I mean, and the rest of you care as little as I about the actual details, so hush about the non-technical language). Unfortunately, constant nym changing looks like spamming at first glance, and so needs to be checked out. When it's only you making use of the facilities Fred so nicely provided, that takes time away from checking out the bad guys. Someone who appeared to be Black Bart -- but wasn't, apologies to you both -- was banned yesterday because he refused to heed the message. And as Black Bart posted very nicely this morning, we have solid proof that it wasn't him, and that he wasn't the one banned. As for the nym jumper, he's going to have to email Fred to request being unbanned, and promise to be more controlled in the future (see link in the right margin of the front page). Please don't be the next to be banned during this challenging situation. Thank you, trailing wife for the moderators P.S. Check out our Terms of Use, which I just learned we had filed somewhere obvious that I didn't notice. Posted by: trailing wife 2010-03-15 |
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