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General => General Forum Comments => Topic started by: mmars on December 01, 2010, 03:12:06 pm

Title: Sign of the times (?)
Post by: mmars on December 01, 2010, 03:12:06 pm

November 2010 was a record-setting month here at the forums.  Here are some of the details...

New topics: 45 (record low; previous low was 61 in October 2010)
New posts: 174 (record low; previous low was 326 in February 2010)
New members: 54 (record high)

http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/forum/index.php?action=stats

So, what does it all mean?

Title: Re: Sign of the times (?)
Post by: AZ on December 01, 2010, 03:32:40 pm

Close to 20 of these users are "spam" users, with the user names following a certain pattern and e-mail addresses in Poland. The signatures of these users contain URLs the spammers want you to visit.

Title: Re: Sign of the times (?)
Post by: harwil4u2 on December 01, 2010, 06:43:15 pm

Winter is here it should pick up.

Title: Re: Sign of the times (?)
Post by: copperpete on December 01, 2010, 08:54:22 pm

Currently, we don't have any new prefixes to talk about, maybe some members are doing less bricking, less findings to report (errors, low numbers and so on). 

Since we have the SNDB, all the reports about new prefixes are made in it.   The prefixes report was a big contributor for the total posts and new topics.

I don't see much excitment until we get new signature and/or polymer notes...

Title: Re: Sign of the times (?)
Post by: Ottawa on December 20, 2010, 04:29:57 pm

Quote from: copperpete on December 01, 2010, 08:54:22 pm

Currently, we don't have any new prefixes to talk about, maybe some members are doing less bricking, less findings to report (errors, low numbers and so on). .......... I don't see much excitement until we get new signature and/or polymer notes...

Perhaps this explains why we are starting to see a number of threads dealing with COINS on a paper money forum lol!

Title: Re: Sign of the times (?)
Post by: mmars on December 20, 2010, 08:09:58 pm

[edit]Post removed as it is slanderous against members of another forum. --BWJM[/edit]

Title: Re: Sign of the times (?)
Post by: mmars on January 11, 2011, 10:23:11 pm

We're up to 50 members in 10 days this month.  The problem with phony accounts is getting worse.

Title: Re: Sign of the times (?)
Post by: BWJM on January 12, 2011, 12:44:33 am

It's tough to prevent these things. It's like trying to swim in a giant strainer and not sink. If you plug one hole, there are a million others, and who knows how many more.

Just tonight, I've deleted about 90 phony accounts from the system, added a handful of new ban rules, and added a few more domains to the list of email providers you can't sign up with. The "no Gmail" rule that unfortunately frustrates a number of legitimate users prevents on a daily basis dozens of phony account signups.

Thanks to those who take the time to point out suspected phony accounts or alert me to spam posts.

Title: Re: Sign of the times (?)
Post by: BWJM on January 17, 2011, 11:30:26 pm

Additional measures have been put in place today to prevent the high number of phony accounts that keep signing up. If they're robots, this may help solve the problem. If they are human, these measures may be less effective. I almost feel sorry for any humans who think spamming here might do them any good. Sigh.