by HungryTaz on Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:26 pm
Hopefully, we can avoid the assault of bots from now on. I put a lot of controls into the backend of the site that will affect registration, ban some IP ranges and do other stuff to keep this place clean. Unfortunately, the cleaning had its adverse affects and a number of legitimate users were lost. For users with 0 or 1 posts (lurkers at best), they were deleted. With thousands of spammers falling into this category, there was no way I could have sanely cleaned the board without losing them. I did manually clean all users with 2 or more posts and everybody that posted at least twice should have been spared the ban/delete hammer!