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Author Topic: Life Advice's been spammed to hell  (Read 3427 times)

andrea

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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #45 on: September 07, 2017, 03:00:29 pm »

the bot is purged. Praise the Toad.

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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #46 on: September 07, 2017, 03:04:28 pm »

Hopefully Toady has control over the thread timer and can bump it up to something like once an hour. That shouldn't interfere with upper forum or forum games, but is long enough to truncate one of these bots.

Any forum games players care to weigh in?
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #47 on: September 07, 2017, 03:06:45 pm »

Arms race games often have multiple threads, which are generally updated together. Not being a GM, not sure how much of a disruption 1 hour would be.

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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #48 on: September 07, 2017, 03:08:48 pm »

Hopefully Toady has control over the thread timer and can bump it up to something like once an hour. That shouldn't interfere with upper forum or forum games, but is long enough to truncate one of these bots.

Any forum games players care to weigh in?

It be a pain the ass for a couple things. For most games it doesn't matter that much- an IC thread getting put an hour or more behind the OOC thread doesn't matter that much. Would hurt Arms Race style games a bit, as you'd need three hours to set them up. Restricting rapid thread creation would be irritating, but it could be managed.

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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #49 on: September 07, 2017, 03:18:08 pm »

A simple way to solve that problem: don't make it 1 thread/hour, make it 10 threads/24 hours. Or some other arbitrary number, I'm not sure if anyone would (with a legit reason) need to create more threads than that in a day.
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #50 on: September 07, 2017, 03:23:59 pm »

Limiting to a certain number of threads per day would both be less annoying to GMs and such and would probably have been more effective against this particular bot.
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #51 on: September 07, 2017, 10:43:06 pm »

Now lookat creative projects
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #52 on: September 08, 2017, 12:44:10 am »

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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #53 on: September 08, 2017, 12:47:14 am »

Now lookat creative projects

Huh?
It also has a spam thread. Just one, though.
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