PhilDernerJr
2007-01-07, 10:22 AM
The two board admins (GothamSpotter and myself) spend a fair amount of our activity ont he boards deleting some of the fake bot members that manage to get past a barrier or two that we have to prevent them.
It can sometimes be tough to figure out if a new member is real though, and after reading a post, I realized that if Nick Vollaro has joined the site today, we'd probably have assumed that he was a fake member for two reasons:
1. All caps and "69" in his username - This is common in the porn bot members we get, and is usually an obvious giveaway.
and
2. He has an ICQ number - Who has actually used this in the past 4 years? Usually, if a new member has an ICQ number, not that it's wrong, but it's almost always a fake member. In fact, I looked a bit and couldn't find one other real member that had an ICQ listed in their account.
I just thought it was funny how if Nick didn't joinwhen he did, we'd probably have been on the wrong side of judgement and be lacking our good buddy. :)
It can sometimes be tough to figure out if a new member is real though, and after reading a post, I realized that if Nick Vollaro has joined the site today, we'd probably have assumed that he was a fake member for two reasons:
1. All caps and "69" in his username - This is common in the porn bot members we get, and is usually an obvious giveaway.
and
2. He has an ICQ number - Who has actually used this in the past 4 years? Usually, if a new member has an ICQ number, not that it's wrong, but it's almost always a fake member. In fact, I looked a bit and couldn't find one other real member that had an ICQ listed in their account.
I just thought it was funny how if Nick didn't joinwhen he did, we'd probably have been on the wrong side of judgement and be lacking our good buddy. :)