Guest Pelethan Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 Hey, whats the latest movie you saw and what did you thinkt about it ? :) i'll kickoff :) the life oft david gale i thought it wasz quite predictable. maybe i'vs seen too many kevin spacey movies tho. other theno that it was ok. keep on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilkaz Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 What does this have to do about bridge ? Here at this forum if you scroll down the bottom of the lists of forums you'll finding the off topic forum known as the Water Cooler which is where I suspect the mods will move this thread, if they don't delete it entirely. .. neilkaz .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the saint Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 This is spam. There is the exact same post on another forum I am a member of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 I think its an okay post, not spam/ad/illegal stuff. Pelethan posted a joke on his first post. I don't watch movies or TV or read or talk to people anymore. I play WOW. =D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 I moved this post to here from the bridge forum, and I have concerns about his kennedy/lincoln post and this movie post. Only because as first post to a bridge site they were not bridge related. The day he joined he posted the kennedy thing. There is no player on the bbo with the nickname Pelethan, and he there is one more concern (i will message you about it rain). I think there is way less than zero chance this is some bridge player posting fun stuff for us here. This is a probably a prelude to some spam no doubt about it in my mind. Or might be testing out bots for posting in forums like this, and plans to register with other names and spam all the sites once he works out the bugs. Now, if Pelethan is real. He will be reading this forum, especially his post and he will point this out to us. If he is not, if instead this is some strategy to build to a trusted level then to post spam that will be not be deleted, he will be sorely disappointed. I have flagged this username and will be messaged any time he post until we figure this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 nice sleuth work Ben. So time to ban this guy and IP address (not that that would help) I think i posted before that spammers/scammers should all be executed. By divine justice if nothing else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 nice sleuth work Ben. So time to ban this guy and IP address (not that that would help) I think i posted before that spammers/scammers should all be executed. By divine justice if nothing else. I'm kinda cruious what the SPAM might be... Maybe this is some kind of astroturf for the new movie "Bobby" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 nice sleuth work Ben. So time to ban this guy and IP address (not that that would help) I think i posted before that spammers/scammers should all be executed. By divine justice if nothing else. I'm kinda cruious what the SPAM might be... Maybe this is some kind of astroturf for the new movie "Bobby" There is no spam here (well, other thna off topic material). However, this username registered for dozens of forums on nov 14th and 15th for the first time, and posted the kennedy thing and the movie thing. If you wnat to see how active Pelethan has been google that name and look at all the forums he joined on nov 14 and 15 (inlucding ours). Best I can tell he joined more than 100 forums those two days. He evne joined a german one, a french one and an chinese one and posted this stuff in english to them. You will see quickly some, but not all, of the evidence that suggest this is a bot posting stuff to forums. The question of course, is why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpace Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 You will see quickly some, but not all, of the evidence that suggest this is a bot posting stuff to forums. The question of course, is why? If the bot posts a link, which when clicked exploits some of the bugs in I.E/Firefox, chances are, of the 100s of forums these get posted to, quite a few people will click on those links, especially after initially seeing seemingly harmless posts like this. Clever example of social engineering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 Trumpace's answer seems reasonable. I have banned this username. I think we might want to include a new class of users, something like senior member who has posted something on bridge. Only a senior member can then post a non-bridge topic in water cooler (or elsewhere). And we routinely just delete any watercooler type post from someone who has never posted something related to bridge. It is a thought anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpace Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 One question that bothers me is, how did pelethan actually manage to create an account? If it is a bot (as seems possible from the multiple forum posts), it must be a really clever bot which bypassed the security mechanism we have in place (an image which shows a alphanumeric word which you have to type in), or, there must be some bug in the forum software which pelethan used to get in. Maybe we need a better security mechanism in place (or is that a forum software thing that cannot be changed?) or perhaps need an upgrade to software to fix bugs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 One question that bothers me is, how did pelethan actually manage to create an account? If it is a bot (as seems possible from the multiple forum posts), it must be a really clever bot which bypassed the security mechanism we have in place (an image which shows a alphanumeric word which you have to type in), or, there must be some bug in the forum software which pelethan used to get in. Maybe we need a better security mechanism in place (or is that a forum software thing that cannot be changed?) or perhaps need an upgrade to software to fix bugs? Its actually quite easy to bypass most pattern recognition type security systems. Its been outsourced to India and China. There are plenty of computer shops in the third world where users are payed tiny amounts of money to solve these types of problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the saint Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 As I said before and I will say it again - exactly the same poster poseted exactly the same post on another completely unrelated forum to this one = SPAMBOT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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