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Hi AC/FICTALKers. If you see this (11/12/2024) please see new post in General Discussions about Open Doors OTW Organization for Transformative Works) offering to help preserve the AC archive and let me know your thoughts:

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mare

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« on: August 03, 2007, 01:17:01 PM »
We have been having a lot of spammers on this board recently and to be honest it's getting really annoying so I just wanted to warn you, if you sign up without posting anything on the board and your email address is sketchy to me, I am going to be automatically deleting your account. So just take a second and post something in the newbie section if you are for real so this way I know not to do that.

Thanks a lot!  ;)
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Re: newbies
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2007, 02:39:54 PM »
I was pretty much getting rid of any email address that looked sketchy, with sketchy looking names, etc... Hopefully it was nobody who just had a really weird name, and a really weird ISP but I'm banking on the fact that it wasn't :)
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Re: newbies
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2007, 02:45:04 PM »
I have been deleting everyone especially the ones that end in RU. It's really annoying lol
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Re: newbies
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2007, 04:46:44 PM »
Quote from: mare on August 13, 2007, 02:45:04 PM
I have been deleting everyone especially the ones that end in RU. It's really annoying lol

Yeah, those too. And 90% of the time the spammers "name" is all one word. That's my first indicator. I just got rid of a whole bunch who were listed as having never even logged on.
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Re: newbies
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2007, 05:28:58 PM »
I did that too the other day lol it's been really bad here lately. I would say whenever I come online i end up deleting about ten people a day and then banning a few who make it online and spam us.
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