Recent content by JoJo

I've seen one bot which managed 125 posts. It's definitely a new breed of them.

On the contrary, flagging posts with the report button is more effective actually since the report queue is the first thing I see when I log into the site. Appreciate how quickly you guys often pick up on them.

I would hazard a guess that the hope is to increase the visibility of the linked site on search engines by planting links on other websites.

I don't believe it's targeted in a sense that someone's intentionally trying to harm the forums, but it's definitely a particularly virulent new breed of bots which appear to be coming from the same source and unlike previous bots, don't give up after one or two threads. Unfortunately, I don't...

I don't have any stats I'm afraid but I'm with Chimpzy that it seems very few newcomers have stuck around for the past few years.

Thanks guys! Please do keep reporting them, it makes them much quicker to identify and clean-up. All new users on the forum require manual approval and I think the uptick is in part because the automated system we have that flags up bots has become less effective recently. I could become...

Thanks guys. Unfortunate timing since I was out all yesterday and that seems to be when a particularly virulent wave of bots decided to activate >.>

I don't give many of my characters birthdays as I don't feel like its the kind of detail that says much about who someone *really* is and many of my characters live in worlds that don't follow our familiar calendar in any case. The only exception being a few characters who I've written...

Yeah, I'm still around, not posting much at the moment due to real life work & study commitments but I'm keeping an eye on the report queue.

Hey there! Sorry, us mods aren't empowered to change usernames, I would recommend contacting someone through here: https://forums.escapistmagazine.com/misc/contact

I find it kinda funny that as the mod, I have the lowest respect for authority score so far.

Merry Christmas all!

Anyone can join, we've already had a ghost of forum past joining us.

Sure thing ; )

The short answer is that all new user accounts require mod approval to post, and we have a very effective automated spambot detector that flags up suspicious accounts prior to approval, so we'll never be in a situation like in V1 where actual forums are overrun. It comes at a small cost of...