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Offline Goober5000

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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
Unfortunately, members aren't displayed on the memberlist if they haven't been activated.  I've manually activated him.

 
Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
Hi, guys, please unban my IP 78.107.238.106, I've tried to register and got blocked... This message was sent from the office :(

 

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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
Hmm.  That IP doesn't appear on the list of ban triggers -- on HLP anyway.  Zacam or rev_posix will need to see if it's on the spam blacklist.

Sorry about the registration difficulty.

 
Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
It works! I don't know how, but it works. Thank you!

 

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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
I didn't fix it. :nervous:

 

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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
Just registered another user who got turned away as spam.
Karajorma's Freespace FAQ. It's almost like asking me yourself.

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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
I'll see what I can tweak in terms of what it flags (or rather, reads back from the flagging list).
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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
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last message from bloodstalker around Mar 31 2013, 8:30pm
i try to register and i get this :An Error Has Occurred!  The user bloodstalker with Email *removed* is a Spam, please contact forum administrator.
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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
PM Received with *removed* information included, account registered.
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[08/01 16:53:11] <sigtau> EveningTea: I have decided that I am a 32-bit registerkin.  Pronouns are eax, ebx, ecx, edx.
[08/01 16:53:31] <EveningTea> dhauidahh
[08/01 16:53:32] <EveningTea> sak
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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
Thank you. :)
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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
Hi there, got another user having trouble registering:
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"The user Luke with Email [email protected] (IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) is a Spam, please contact forum administrator."
He's a guy that made some intersting stuff for Wing Commander Saga, some of which might be useful for the larger FS modding community.

 

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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
Hi there, got another user having trouble registering:
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"The user Luke with Email [email protected] (IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) is a Spam, please contact forum administrator."
He's a guy that made some intersting stuff for Wing Commander Saga, some of which might be useful for the larger FS modding community.

Unless an Administrator receives a PM with the redacted information in the clear, finding that information in the logging to establish a user account will be tedious.
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[08/01 16:53:11] <sigtau> EveningTea: I have decided that I am a 32-bit registerkin.  Pronouns are eax, ebx, ecx, edx.
[08/01 16:53:31] <EveningTea> dhauidahh
[08/01 16:53:32] <EveningTea> sak
[08/01 16:53:40] * EveningTea froths at the mouth
[08/01 16:53:40] <sigtau> i broke him, boys

 
Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
Sent you the info via PM.

 

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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
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Hobbie 6hours 43mins ago says:
Hi, I saw on the Hard Light forums that you're helping a few folks out with registration woes at this thread: Hard-light.net

I'd like to add my name to the list of people who's been having trouble registering. Finding someone, ANYONE to contact has been near-impossible since in order to PM an admin, you have to be registered, and to register you have to PM an admin and so on and so forth...

The error is as follows: The user Hobbie with Email [...] is a Spam, please contact forum administrator.

If you could forward this to the admins to get that checked out, that would be great. Thanks

Regards,
Hobbie
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Offline MatthTheGeek

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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
People need to lrn2IRC.

Maybe someone should put a sticky on the Getting Started board saying that if you can't register, ask for help on IRC.
People are stupid, therefore anything popular is at best suspicious.

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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
How many non-geeks in this day and age actually know what IRC is? :p

In any case, I think my point about too many false positives is proving more and more salient.

 

Offline MatthTheGeek

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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
How many non-geeks in this day and age actually know what IRC is? :p
Hence a sticky in the Getting Started board, with mibbit links. Isn't that exactly the kind of thing the Getting Started forum was made for ?
People are stupid, therefore anything popular is at best suspicious.

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666maslo666: Releasing a finished product is not a good thing! It is a modern fad.

SpardaSon21: it seems like you exist in a permanent state of half-joking misanthropy

Axem: when you put it like that, i sound like an insane person

bigchunk1: it's not retarded it's american!
bigchunk1: ...

batwota: steele's maneuvering for the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: you mispelled grâce
Awaesaar: grace
batwota: oh right :P
Darius: ah!
Darius: yes, i like that
MatthTheGeek: the way you just spelled it it means fat
Awaesaar: +accent I forgot how to keyboard
MatthTheGeek: or grease
Darius: the killing fat!
Axem: jabba does the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: XD
Axem: bring me solo and a cookie

 

Offline Goober5000

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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
Well, someone write up a how-to and I'll sticky it. :)

 

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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
Isn't that exactly the kind of thing the Getting Started forum was made for ?

No. The Getting Started forum was not made to get around stupid forum bugs.
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Offline Goober5000

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Re: New user acct blocked as spam.
I wouldn't classify this as a bug.  It's a false positive, which is the sort of thing you have to expect with any automatic decision system.  You can minimize them, but you can't eliminate them.  Showing new registrants how to inform the admins is something that falls under the Getting Started umbrella.