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General Discussions => Testing. 1, 2, 3... => Topic started by: Mysterious Benefactor on December 23, 2008, 01:15:05 AM

Title: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on December 23, 2008, 01:15:05 AM

Over the past several weeks the forum has been bombarded nearly every day with dozens of potential registrations that turn out to simply be from very persistent spammers. It's become quite time consuming and aggravating to deal with them so, unfortunately, it's become necessary to temporarily suspend registration. Hopefully registration will reopen come January - and we're very sorry that any real DS fans won't be able to register until then.  [santa_sad]

Title: Re: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: Gerard on December 23, 2008, 03:34:09 AM

This sudden (within the past few weeks) outbreak of hyper-spamming is sweeping all across the internet.  Quite a few message boards and groups I belong to on various subjects, from ocean liners to TV shows to other topics have been inundated by these parasites.  Virtually all are hit-and-spammers, wherein they create fake profiles, post oodles of the rancid stuff, cancel their profiles (often within minutes) and create new ones to post the same stuff and minutes later repeat the process again (and again and again and again).  Moderators are pulling their hair out, deleting these posts and many have also resorted to temporarily suspending any new "members."  These are vile creatures indeed, and I fully understand your frustration, MB.  For your hard work, Santa will bring you some extra goodies and bring to those leeches extra lumps of coal.

Gerard

Title: Re: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: Midnite on December 27, 2008, 01:41:29 AM

Gerard,

Fortunately, none of the spammers made it past our vetting process for membership, so our readers haven't had to deal with any annoying spam on the boards.  More important, I think, is that by having their memberships rejected, spammers and telemarketers are prevented from harvesting personal information such as email out of member profiles since these (unless addresses are hidden completely) can only be viewed by members.


Our apologies to the DS fans who've had to endure longer waits for activation this past month, and many thanks for your patience!

Title: Re: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on February 23, 2011, 07:42:11 AM

We should probably mention that we've had to suspend registration again for the very same reason as stated in the first post of this topic.  [snow_sad]  And again apologies to any actual DS fans who've tried to register...

Title: Re: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: retzev on November 15, 2012, 03:11:55 AM

Any word on registration opening again?

Title: Re: ** Registrations **
Post by: Midnite on February 14, 2014, 04:49:16 AM

Quote from: retzev on November 15, 2012, 03:11:55 AM

Any word on registration opening again?

Registration has reopened.  [snow_happy]

Title: Re: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: MagnusTrask on February 14, 2014, 08:06:40 AM

Excellent!

Title: Re: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: Uncle Roger on February 14, 2014, 08:41:04 AM

I'll second that!!

Title: Re: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: Eric Barg on February 17, 2014, 04:54:45 AM

At last I am in!

Thank you kind masters.  May you be generously rewarded for opening the doors to those of us who have been on the outside for so long.

Title: Re: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: dom on February 17, 2014, 05:05:01 AM

Welcome. Enjoy.

Title: Re: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: Midnite on February 17, 2014, 05:16:59 AM

Welcome!  [wave]

Title: Re: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: Uncle Roger on February 17, 2014, 06:42:24 AM

Welcome!

Title: Re: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on February 17, 2014, 06:43:28 AM

Happy to have you with us, Son of Angelique!  [snow_happy]  Feel free to jump right into the discussions!  [snow_wink]

Title: Re: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: Josette on February 17, 2014, 07:17:27 AM

Welcome Son of Angelique!  Glad you could finally join us [cheer]

Title: Re: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: MagnusTrask on February 17, 2014, 11:54:24 AM

Welcome, SoA!  Fresh blood, how long we've waited....

Title: Re: ** Registrations Temporarily Suspended **
Post by: michael c on February 17, 2014, 05:04:14 PM

welcome! [snow_smiley]