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Dead Accounts
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 3:13 am
by trexdino
I noticed at the bottom of main forums index page, there is a number of registered users and amount of articiles. Well, if the forums all of a sudden went communist, then everybody would have about 19 articles each. Pretty low, that tells you how many people make accounts and never post anything. What is with that? They aren't even bots.
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 3:14 am
by Dogonabun
Some people create accounts just for when they have a serious bug issue to report. Some some(most) users only have two or three posts.
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 3:16 am
by trexdino
No, there are some accounts where the name seems to be just a bunch of random letters, and they have zero posts, and they have been members for a while.
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 3:20 am
by Dogonabun
Well.. I dunno. They're probably just there because someone wanted to clutter the list. But I really have no idea about those.
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 9:31 am
by marol
These are spam bots, a machines which do register, but are automatically banned when trying to post their very first message containing a link.
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 10:30 am
by trexdino
Okay, thanks
Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 5:07 pm
by the_antisocial_hermit
trexdino wrote:No, there are some accounts where the name seems to be just a bunch of random letters, and they have zero posts, and they have been members for a while.
Some also were probably bots that did manage to get something posted, but staff deleted as soon as they saw it was spam, and they never posted again.
Re: Dead Accounts
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:59 am
by rklenseth
trexdino wrote:I noticed at the bottom of main forums index page, there is a number of registered users and amount of articiles. Well, if the forums all of a sudden went communist, then everybody would have about 19 articles each. Pretty low, that tells you how many people make accounts and never post anything. What is with that? They aren't even bots.
I'm a bot.
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:48 am
by Vipho
Get the humanoid!
Intruder alert!
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:03 am
by joo
You can't ban me, I'm the pinnacle of human achievement in the field of AI!
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:16 am
by SekoETC
I wish I had the power to delete accounts with zero posts. We get like 20 spambots a day and it sucks. Everybody is like "just ignore them" but I hate to know that they exist.
Re: Dead Accounts
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:30 pm
by the_antisocial_hermit
rklenseth wrote:trexdino wrote:I noticed at the bottom of main forums index page, there is a number of registered users and amount of articiles. Well, if the forums all of a sudden went communist, then everybody would have about 19 articles each. Pretty low, that tells you how many people make accounts and never post anything. What is with that? They aren't even bots.
I'm a bot.
Oh no!
Guess I'll have to delete those 4600+ posts.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:07 pm
by rklenseth
You stay away from my posts!
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:33 pm
by the_antisocial_hermit
rklenseth wrote:You stay away from my posts!
Aww... but I like them...
They're just so juicy.
Does somebody need a hug?
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:51 am
by rklenseth
Why? So you can steal my posts while I'm distracted and immobile? I'm on to your tricks now!