Server status 11-29-08

ZombieSlayer · Post by **ZombieSlayer** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:56 pm

Just got off the phone with Joey. There's a trouble ticket at the server farm to get the server back up. However nobody has seen the night tech in awhile and they think he went home for the evening.

Hopefully tomorrow morning (around 9am central time) the server will be back up.

If not, then monday for sure because Joey will call them up first thing and raise some hell.

He apologizes for the downtime and hopes it's done with soon.

Joey will be gone from Dec 1 to Dec 20th on a training thingy with his new job. So he says that in Jan he will be able to get things back on track as far as the patch goes.

So please just hang in there a little longer and you'll see that the wait has been well worth it

kanabanoid · Post by **kanabanoid** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:24 pm

this spamming is getting out of hand

Post by **BaronVonRotterdam** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 2:07 pm

kanabanoid wrote:this spamming is getting out of hand

Yeah tell me about it :/ They have been gone for atleast a year and now all the sudden they are back...

kanabanoid · Post by **kanabanoid** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 2:53 pm

thanx for the removal, Paint : )

Post by **Mobster** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 3:33 pm

now viagra has joined the forum............

CWO · Post by **CWO** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:26 am

I'm sure you guys take a somewhat similar approach except for one thing but I completely eliminated spam on my forum by 2 things.

1. I modded my forum so that trying to register with the first listed language in the forum returns "Unknown Error". This took my forum from about 25 registrations a day down to about 2 a week.

2. I made it so that registrations have to be approved by an admin. Usually in the admin control panel under management its easy to spot bot registrations.

Archangel · Post by **Archangel** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:57 am

CWO wrote:I'm sure you guys take a somewhat similar approach except for one thing but I completely eliminated spam on my forum by 2 things.

1. I modded my forum so that trying to register with the first listed language in the forum returns "Unknown Error". This took my forum from about 25 registrations a day down to about 2 a week.

2. I made it so that registrations have to be approved by an admin. Usually in the admin control panel under management its easy to spot bot registrations.

Looks like spamming right now...........

CWO · Post by **CWO** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:38 am

Not really. If I linked something and talked off topic it would be spamming. Also, unless I'm the next generation spam bot, I haven't actually seen a spam bot that can not only stay on topic in an existing post but also reply to someone who acknowledged it... :-P