This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)

#301 | Back to Top06-13-2012 01:10:25 PM

Hiraku
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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

Wow, to be able to tell if an account is spambot before it even posts. That takes skills. emot-aaa

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#302 | Back to Top06-13-2012 02:45:47 PM

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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

Wow, to be able to tell if an account is spambot before it even posts. That takes skills

I'm guessing when an account name going something like RealNiceTShirtForSale, it basically screams "spambot here please delete" emot-rofl


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#303 | Back to Top06-13-2012 04:35:44 PM

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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

You should know, shutin -- you've caught a few that way yourself! emot-smile

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#304 | Back to Top06-13-2012 06:26:06 PM

onsenmark
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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

gorgeousshutin wrote:

Wow, to be able to tell if an account is spambot before it even posts. That takes skills

I'm guessing when an account name going something like RealNiceTShirtForSale, it basically screams "spambot here please delete" emot-rofl

And you can check their profiles -- usually, they'll post spam links there, too.


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#305 | Back to Top06-19-2012 09:49:10 PM

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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

eDeneenShepardw looks mildly suspicious.


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#306 | Back to Top06-19-2012 10:35:44 PM

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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

Ragnarok wrote:

eDeneenShepardw looks mildly suspicious.

I should say so.  Deleted!  Best to PM me about this sort of thing, so as not to clog this thread with reports emot-smile

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#307 | Back to Top06-27-2012 03:49:01 PM

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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

Gotta captcha 'em all!  Spamfighting gym leaders of the last two weeks:

onsenmark: 6
Aine Silveria: 3
allegoriest: 3
Dognog: 3
Ragnarok: 3
Ashnod: 2
Malacoda: 2
MikoGalatea: 2
Nova: 2
thothptah: 2
Calamity: 1
gorgeousshutin: 1
gpink: 1

The smaller numbers this period reflect fewer attacks and quicker mod response.  We are winning!  Keep up the good work!  emot-biggrin

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#308 | Back to Top07-16-2012 03:31:17 AM

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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

Spam per day continues to decline.  Good work, team emot-smile  Leaderboard since June 27:

onsenmark: 9
Ashnod: 3
Ragnarok: 3
Crystalline_Dream: 1
MikoGalatea: 1
Nova: 1
Raven Nightshade: 1

Thank you all. etc-love

I wish I knew how spam factories operate, and in particular what system is used to pay the workers.  Gio is confident that IRG spam is not bot spam; every spammer I banned or deleted represents a human being.  But why do so many human spammers make accounts here but not post from them?  We get a lot of new registrants with spam links in their sigs, but since they never post, no one sees their sig.  Ragnarok also wondered in one of his spam reports why spammers concentrate their posts in one forum instead of spreading them around.  My guess offhand is that it makes them less likely to be spotted immediately, but I really have no idea.  Probably all of these questions are related to whatever weird incentive structure is used by the spam factories.   I guess if I were getting paid a nickel or whatever for every account I created, but wasn't getting paid to post, I might make a bunch of zero-post spam accounts too.

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#309 | Back to Top07-17-2012 11:13:16 AM

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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

ytfgha20 is likely a bot.

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#310 | Back to Top07-17-2012 11:45:56 AM

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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

Atropos wrote:

ytfgha20 is likely a bot.

Poor ytfgha20 hit some kind of perfect storm; I had eight reports when I logged on, all from different members emot-biggrin  What makes you think it's a bot and not a human?

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#311 | Back to Top07-17-2012 11:52:57 AM

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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

Satyreyes wrote:

What makes you think it's a bot and not a human?

It's "post".


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#312 | Back to Top07-17-2012 12:39:48 PM

satyreyes
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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

gorgeousshutin wrote:

Satyreyes wrote:

What makes you think it's a bot and not a human?

It's "post".

What about it?  It just said "thanks for the post," and then linked a bunch of spam websites.

I'm not an expert, so the rest of this post is just an educated guess, but: Human spammers are not trying to engage with the forum.  Frequently they don't even speak English.  (Most of our spam attacks come from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and a couple other places.)  If their posts feel mechanical, it's not necessarily because they're produced by a machine; it's more likely to be because the spammer is impatient to get done with this forum and earn their nickel or whatever, so that they can move on to the next forum on what I'm sure is a very long list.  What's more, spammers certainly have no personal stake in the services they try to link us to.  They post on behalf of whoever has hired their spam-posting company today.  They get paid the same whether we click those links or not.  So with a few exceptions, they don't try very hard to disguise themselves.

There must be a book about the spam industry floating around out there somewhere...

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#313 | Back to Top07-29-2012 12:34:37 PM

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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

We've had a couple of pretty heavy weeks spamwise.  (Spamwise?  Isn't that a Lord of the Rings character?)  Fortunately, you all have been around to sort it out!  Leaderboard since July 16:

MikoGalatea: 6
onsenmark: 5
thothptah: 5
Ashnod: 4
Crystalline_Dream: 4
Dognog: 4
Nova: 3
Ragnarok: 3
gorgeousshutin: 2
Honey Bear: 2
Raven Nightshade: 2
Syora: 2
Aine Silveria: 1
Atropos: 1
Hiraku: 1

Onsenmark isn't on top for the first time since I started doing leaderboards!  Miko takes gold this week -- but every one of you is a champion.  emot-biggrin

With all the mods hitting the road by Tuesday or Wednesday en route to RoseCon, expect delayed responses to spam reports for the next week and a half.  I'll check in at least once a day no matter what.

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#314 | Back to Top07-31-2012 12:08:43 PM

onsenmark
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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

Well, I couldn't be on as much as I usually am -- blame Otakon, lol.


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#315 | Back to Top08-26-2012 08:47:06 PM

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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

Leaderboard since August 7:

onsenmark: 9
Crystalline_Dream: 3
Ashnod: 2
Dognog: 2
Frosty: 2
Hiraku: 2
Raven Nightshade: 2
Aine Silveria: 1
Malacoda: 1
Nova: 1
thothptah: 1

Thanks as always for keeping an eye on things. emot-smile

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#316 | Back to Top10-10-2012 04:30:01 PM

satyreyes
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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

So for the last four days or so, Ohtori.nu has occasionally been flickering offline.  This has happened three times that I know of, for maybe half an hour to an hour each, and there may have been others.  Gio's going to get in touch with our host about it, and we'll see if we can get it resolved.  On the bright side, the gallery seems to be working better!

I don't have a spam leaderboard this time around, but I want to thank everyone who's reported spam or spammers in the last month and a half or so.  Special shout-out to onsenmark, who continues to be instrumental in fingering spam accounts practically the instant they register.  The volume of spam that's made it to the board has been way down, and that's thanks to you guys. emot-smile

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#317 | Back to Top10-10-2012 06:23:30 PM

onsenmark
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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

satyreyes wrote:

So for the last four days or so, Ohtori.nu has occasionally been flickering offline.  This has happened three times that I know of, for maybe half an hour to an hour each, and there may have been others.  Gio's going to get in touch with our host about it, and we'll see if we can get it resolved.  On the bright side, the gallery seems to be working better!

I don't have a spam leaderboard this time around, but I want to thank everyone who's reported spam or spammers in the last month and a half or so.  Special shout-out to onsenmark, who continues to be instrumental in fingering spam accounts practically the instant they register.  The volume of spam that's made it to the board has been way down, and that's thanks to you guys. emot-smile

Ain't no thing. I usually check a couple times a day, if anything. And it gives me an excuse to vent my frustrations upon the spamming community since they evidently caused my IP to get blacklisted from the Nekocon forums(and no, I'm pretty sure I'm not hacked or anything)... and right when I was going to post about a toku shoot Neko weekend, too. ;_;

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#318 | Back to Top10-31-2012 11:05:33 PM

satyreyes
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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

We had a wave of spammers today, or possibly just one spammer attacking repeatedly, from an IP band in Dhaka.  I've banned 65,536 IP addresses that I believe to be based in Dhaka, including the ones these guys used -- but because IP addresses are sometimes assigned in a slipshod way, it's possible that some of those addresses are actually located somewhere else.  (Or for that matter that they belong to perfectly nice people in Dhaka who are interested in Utena and want to join IRG.)

The odds are very remote that anyone already registered will be affected, but just in case: if you have any trouble logging into your account, let me know and I'll sort it out.

Thanks to everyone who reported these most recent attacks!  emot-smile

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#319 | Back to Top11-09-2012 11:18:34 PM

Saito Hoshikawa
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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

The gallery seems to be having trouble with loading images properly, and it looks like it's affecting the images when someone moves one to their desktop.

Starting off, it does the thing where it shows the file name instead of the actual image when the image pages are linked*. Some images will show but others won't, and it changes what images show and what doesn't when you refresh the page*. Clicking one of the loaded images reaches this page with the image loaded and visible, but doing anything with it becomes a problem.

It also sounds like this has been going on for a while (what with the site going offline last month). Would this be a hosting problem or otherwise?

(* - This doesn't always happen, but that's just a small part of the overall problem.)

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#320 | Back to Top11-10-2012 03:44:31 AM

Aine Silveria
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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

I know it's been mentioned by Giovanna, though maybe not in this thread, that the gallery is borked to hell. Personally, I'd assume it's another symptom of the perpetual issues she's been having trying to get it to work properly for all of us.


EDIT: Not to say it's broken, per se, but that it doesn't function well at all under heavy load and is a complete resource hog on the server. Also not to say that this may not be a completely new issue.

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#321 | Back to Top11-10-2012 07:07:01 AM

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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

And it had been working so well for a while emot-frown  Gio's on the road right now, but I'm sure she'll look into it when she has a chance.

(Unrelatedly, I've been continuing my campaign of preemptive bans against regions that have given us nothing but spam, notably Bangladesh and Pakistan, whenever I receive spam from their IP bands.  In the last couple weeks I've banned maybe 200,000 potentially spammy IP addresses.  Once again, this is unlikely to affect any legitimate forum accounts, but if you have trouble logging in, get in touch and I'll fix it.)

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#322 | Back to Top11-14-2012 09:37:06 AM

satyreyes
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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

As many of you noted, we had yet another big wave of spam yesterday and this morning.  Another day, another 20,000 IP addresses banned.  How many IPs can there be in Dhaka?  Thanks for the spam reports!

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#323 | Back to Top11-14-2012 11:52:44 AM

onsenmark
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Posts: 548
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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

satyreyes wrote:

As many of you noted, we had yet another big wave of spam yesterday and this morning.  Another day, another 20,000 IP addresses banned.  How many IPs can there be in Dhaka?  Thanks for the spam reports!

Where the smeg is Dhaka? o.o?


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#324 | Back to Top11-14-2012 01:48:48 PM

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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

Bangladesh, it's their capital city.

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#325 | Back to Top11-14-2012 02:09:49 PM

satyreyes
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Re: Report layout glitches, bugs, and forum meltdowns here!

Stephen wrote:

Bangladesh, it's their capital city.

And according to Wikipedia, it's the ninth largest "urban agglomeration" in the world, just a little behind Beijing and about two-thirds as big as the New York-Newark area.  In other words: a lot of IP addresses.  emot-mad  And for whatever reason, Dhaka and other big cities in rapidly developing nations are responsible for by far the majority of the spam we get on IRG.  In addition to Bangladesh, Singapore and India are top offenders.  As far as I know, we've never had a legit account from any of those countries, but boy, have we had a lot of bogus ones.   emot-gonk

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