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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Sméagol]Yeah, it surprised me just how many people make an account and then never, ever post. Like, a majority of the registered users. Even if you don't count spambots. It would have been nice to not delete the real people who registered but have yet to post, but it wasn't feasible to look at each individual account like that with this many. I wanted to delete the spam accounts because their profiles link to spammy sites. Having thousands of links on your website to spam sites is detrimental to search engine rankings.[/quote]
I have my own forum where my friends and I chat together. And this is not unusual, because I tell somebody (like my sister, who doesn't get on the computer much) about my forum. They join, and then forget about it because they hardly get o line or have other sites they like to go to.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[jasper]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/130524/</uri>
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			<updated>2013-01-12T15:02:14Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[It is recorded separately. Any data created by the account user of the deleted account remains intact except for profile info, though it might cause some glitches in displaying things.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Sméagol]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/28/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-09-25T06:58:55Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285246/#p285246</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Would their deletion have wiped their ratings or is that a separate database?]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Lechnology]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/80/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-09-25T06:56:22Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285245/#p285245</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Yeah, there are reasons to register, for instance so you can keep track of what you've read and rate films. Deleting all these accounts was sort of a last resort, but hopefully the effects won't be too far-reaching.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Sméagol]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/28/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-09-25T06:54:41Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285244/#p285244</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Do some of them rate videos, perhaps?]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Lechnology]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/80/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-09-25T06:52:42Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285243/#p285243</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Yeah, it surprised me just how many people make an account and then never, ever post. Like, a majority of the registered users. Even if you don't count spambots. It would have been nice to not delete the real people who registered but have yet to post, but it wasn't feasible to look at each individual account like that with this many. I wanted to delete the spam accounts because their profiles link to spammy sites. Having thousands of links on your website to spam sites is detrimental to search engine rankings.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Sméagol]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/28/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-09-25T06:51:45Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285242/#p285242</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Rook13]Luckily My account wasn't deleted 'cause usually i dont post things alot so...[/quote]

Only accounts that have [b]never[/b] posted have been deleted. I don't see the point in creating an account that has made no posts anyway, but hey-ho.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Genzarata]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/2852/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-09-24T20:08:50Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285181/#p285181</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Luckily My account wasn't deleted 'cause usually i dont post things alot so...]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Rook13]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/126096/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-09-24T15:55:53Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285171/#p285171</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285117/#p285117"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Sméagol] [quote=rogeralans]Hey, I had an idea for a trivia question. "What is Smeagol's favorite thing to chat about?"[/quote]

That's easy. Lighting techniques.[/quote]
:lol:]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[rogeralans]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[andrehuster@gmail.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/124083/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-09-24T00:49:03Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285117/#p285117</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285116/#p285116"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[It's pretty easy to tell if a new account is a spambot or not based on username, email, and IP address. We delete the spambots and clear the non-bots to be able to post. It's just a pain because it has to be done manually on a routine.

[quote=rogeralans]Hey, I had an idea for a trivia question. "What is Smeagol's favorite thing to chat about?"[/quote]

That's easy. Lighting techniques.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Sméagol]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/28/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-09-24T00:45:41Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285116/#p285116</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285106/#p285106"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Genzarata]Just out of interest, how can manually approving accounts reduce the problem of spambots?[/quote]
Well, I would think that if a spambot can't post, then it can't post. Unless we are worried about spam accounts clogging up the site, which wouldn't be affected by the manual approved system.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[rogeralans]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[andrehuster@gmail.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/124083/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-09-23T23:26:42Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285106/#p285106</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285104/#p285104"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Just out of interest, how can manually approving accounts reduce the problem of spambots?]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Genzarata]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/2852/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-09-23T23:21:10Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285104/#p285104</id>
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		<entry>
			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285102/#p285102"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Hey, I had an idea for a trivia question. "What is Smeagol's favorite thing to chat about?" :P
Which wouldn't really work. Most people that join here are newbies, and wouldn't know much about filming, etc, so questions about filming wouldn't work really, either. I should think the current system of manual authorization works fine, as long as new members come on the chat room when Smeagol is around.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[rogeralans]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[andrehuster@gmail.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/124083/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-09-23T23:18:40Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285102/#p285102</id>
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		<entry>
			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285086/#p285086"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[If I was a determined asian dude, I'd probably just google the answer for any trivia questions...]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Rsteenoven]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/101/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-09-23T21:20:28Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285086/#p285086</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Note about new accounts]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285068/#p285068"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Yeah I think Lech is right in that they're using humans to get past the captcha.

It looks like the new anti-spam extension wasn't much of a help either, though. It uses hidden fields and a spambot listing instead of captcha, but there were three spambot registrations when I just checked.

I've seen some sites that have a LEGO trivia question of some kind as the captcha, like "what does AFOL stand for." I don't know what would really work for us, though, as there are people who come to this site who aren't really LEGO enthusiasts anyway.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Sméagol]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/28/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-09-23T19:00:07Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/285068/#p285068</id>
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