Can someone ban this bot, it's a bloody nuisance.

@Rob

I tried since this began

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@number6

Me too. The report button seems to be broken.

@Rob

Issue dealt with thanks to moderator:

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@number6

Thanks. I was quite surprised to see those threads pop up after so many years.

Really need to get all it's posts deleted too :(

@dalek

He might be weird, but at all in all I thinks he's funny. He didn't hurt or offend anyone did he?

The forum is about the past anyways, that's what so many self righteous and all knowing people say in their posts anyway.
At least those old posts he digs out are being read again, else why are they being kept? To have future archeologists read them? Future advanced A.I.'s interested in human kind? To fill up server space because storage is cheap nowadays?

Anyway a 1000 year ban seems appropriate punishment for that old frustrated amigan, maybe he will have passed to a better life by then!

@dalek

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dalek wrote: Really need to get all it's posts deleted too :(

That's what I've immediately asked to Steve, but he still hasn't replied.

@Amigo1

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Amigo1 wrote: @dalek He might be weird, but at all in all I thinks he's funny. He didn't hurt or offend anyone did he? The forum is about the past anyways, that's what so many self righteous and all knowing people say in their posts anyway. At least those old posts he digs out are being read again, else why are they being kept? To have future archeologists read them? Future advanced A.I.'s interested in human kind? To fill up server space because storage is cheap nowadays? Anyway a 1000 year ban seems appropriate punishment for that old frustrated amigan, maybe he will have passed to a better life by then!

Completely trashing the forum isn't funny: you don't know who replied to what and which threads got updated.

The forum becomes useless, because checking every single subforum and searching for the last really updated threads takes too long, and for people having already not much free time is simply a no-go.

The funny thing to me is that several people haven't immediately recognized that it was a bot (it was super-evident!!!) and tried to interact with it, even more times.

@cdimauro

How do you know "it" was / is a bot?
Could you deduce it by the connection logs?

Or maybe he didn't pass the Tourette test?

Thank god, he/it was destroying the site.

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Amigo1 wrote: @cdimauro How do you know "it" was / is a bot? Could you deduce it by the connection logs? Or maybe he didn't pass the Tourette test?

Both.

First of all, from its writings/answers/replies which were weird.

Second, and that was the proof, once it started replying to hundreds of threads randomly, in very very short time, trying to post something which belong the specific thread.

Anyway, I still see people replying to it.

P.S. Touring, not Tourette test.

@amigang

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amigang wrote: Thank god, he/it was destroying the site.

But its posts are still there. I've asked _Steve_ to delete them, in order to restore the forum's status, but no reply yet.

Willl our trusted friend and pal fricopal! be allowed back when he is reincarnated?

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@cdimauro

Oh, ok! I didn't invest time in verifying the frequency and timing of his messages. So who wrote the bot or pointed it towards this website?

p.s. I wrote Tourette on purpose, I swear it's better than the Turing test!

@Amigo1

I'm genuinely surprised you weren't able to tell, even if the frequency of the posts and style wasn't a dead giveaway.

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@Karlos

fricopal Was a real life boy just like pinocchio. Couldn’t you telll?

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Para todos, este Fricopal! no es un bot, es el personaje que lleva años en este foro troleando y tratando de hundirlo bajo diferentes nombres, ahora y una vez más como esta obsesionado conmigo, trata de vincular este nuevo seudónimo conmigo y con la empresa de mí hermano, aclaro una vez más que esta cuenta no tiene nada que ver conmigo ni con mí enorno familiar, desafortunadamente llevamos años asistiendo a la falta de seriedad y control en este foro cuando menos la gente que le ha seguido la corriente o incluso le a llegado a animar para que siguiera con sus chorradas.

For everyone, this Fricopal! is not a bot, it is the character who has been trolling this forum for years and trying to sink it under different names, now and once again as he is obsessed with me, he tries to link this new pseudonym to me and my brother's company, I clarify once again that this account has nothing to do with me or my family environment, unfortunately we have been witnessing for years the lack of seriousness and control in this forum, at least the people who have gone along with it or even encouraged him to continue with his nonsense.

@Templario even if there is a human being behind, he/she certainly used a bot (which is the threat here).

The problem is that the forum is being invaded by bots. In fact, you can see them floating around and they will certainly take actions soon, destroying the forum layout (e.g.: randomly and massively resurrecting very old threads).

However, the biggest problem is that there's no moderation. Even contacting moderators via PMs has no effect. I can understand that anyone has a real life, but if there aren't enough active moderators then others should be nominated by the site admin/owner.

Otherwise, this forum is doomed to the extinction.

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Even contacting moderators via PMs has no effect.

I hope no one is using "about us" with hopes of making contact with staff.

That information has not been updated/corrected for a-eons.

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@cdimauro

Reporting is broken as is updating avatars etc. The site is being left fallow and it will be overtaken by weeds shortly it seems.

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