Topic: Advertising

Today I saw someone advertising a T-Shirt website. Here are his only two posts:

Jibon33 wrote:

Many of these great people are managers of unsigned bands, who are looking to get some t-shirts made that they can sell at gigs or on their website, in order to bring in an additional stream of revenue (or in some cases their only source of income).Create a shirtThey usually send me a sample of their artwork, which is nearly always pretty complex, involving a lot of colours and detail.

and

Jibon33 wrote:

I then end up having to explain that it's quite expensive to reproduce this kind of design, and when I tell them how much, they are completely put off the idea and they give up completely. So instead, what I've been doing lately isCreate a t-shirtoffering a range of alternatives which are much more affordable, so that these bands can afford to get some shirts printed and sell to their fans at a profit. This is basically a few ideas I came up with that apply to anybody (not just bands) who is looking to get as many t-shirts printed as possible with a small amount of money.

I bring this up because I don't think this is allowed. He does not even mention Lego. He joined today and his posts have nothing to do with the topic

Re: Advertising

If you see something like that just report it and a mod can delete it. mini/smile

Re: Advertising

That, my friend, is a spambot. A dark creature crawled out of the underworld, commanded by its leader to sell us crappy items that nobody wants.
In other words, they have no regard to rules, because they have no souls. Their just computer programs that post random advertisements that have nothing to do with the site. The biggest problem is that we need tighter security to keep them from getting in.

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We have the Report button in the bottom right of every post for a reason. If ever you see a spambot, don't reply to it. Just click Report.

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BiM could get a captcha, possibly?
A captcha a day keeps the spambot away...

-LASF

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BiM has a captcha, but it's ineffective. There are other solutions we need to look into, but things like updating the forums come first.

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I'm curious to know why our current captcha thingy doesn't work. It looked fine to me last time I looked at it.

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As Jim Gordon would say: "We start carrying semi automatics, they buy automatics, we start wearing Kevlar, they buy armor piercing rounds."

Require email confirmation, write a bot to confirm the email.  Throw in something that only humans can read like Captcha and they'll write a program so that it can read for them.  These are temporary defenses that have a service life of 5 or less years.  They need to be constantly updated because bad guys don't take vacations and they can work for peanuts, allergies notwithstanding.  This is a war that may lead to an Orwellian future of DNA-based verification and DNA-based black market crimes.

If updating the forum is a priority---and we've seen what priority means in a place staffed by volunteers--this will be a spambot-infested forum by the time you're done updating the forum in 2021.  Maybe then our Mayan Overlords will decree spamming a capital offense, punishable by death.

Last edited by Lechnology (December 6, 2011 (03:25pm))

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Re: Advertising

topitmunkeydog wrote:

That, my friend, is a spambot. A dark creature crawled out of the underworld, commanded by its leader to sell us crappy items that nobody wants.
In other words, they have no regard to rules, because they have no souls. Their just computer programs that post random advertisements that have nothing to do with the site. The biggest problem is that we need tighter security to keep them from getting in.

You know,you have given me inspiration for a brickfilm!

-CDP

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Squash wrote:

BiM has a captcha, but it's ineffective. There are other solutions we need to look into..

Perhaps Identification check per user?

Formerly "brickflix"

I am a nonfilming user...for now.

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For one thing, we're going to be changing forum software, hopefully in the somewhat near future.

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