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03-02-2014, 05:52 AM | #81 |
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...Followed by five spambot posts.
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03-02-2014, 08:10 AM | #82 |
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It really is odd! During the re-direct business, I don't remember seeing any bots, and now that that seems to be behind us, we're getting slammed. Is there some monstrous directing force driving it all?
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03-02-2014, 08:48 AM | #83 |
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What you mean...Peter Jackson?
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03-02-2014, 01:50 PM | #84 | |
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EDIT: at 9:10 PM EST I see 6 spammers all starting accounts simultaneously. This is ridiculous.
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03-02-2014, 09:03 PM | #85 |
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I just came on now before bed, and three sub-forums are headed by spammer posts - from different spammers (at least by name). Is it the spambot apocalypse part 2?
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03-02-2014, 09:20 PM | #86 |
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Morthoron must be having a hayday with all these new members to time to ban.
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03-03-2014, 08:07 AM | #87 | |
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Ummm...forget that, I may have to ban myself.
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03-03-2014, 06:07 PM | #88 |
Gruesome Spectre
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Three cheers to The Barrow Wight for very quick action on the spammer deluge. Swift bans are a welcome sight.
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03-03-2014, 09:09 PM | #89 |
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I cannot agree more! But they just keep spamming! Where did all o' them come from all at once? Even now, I see 10 members online, and 5 of them are already predestined to be banned. Since when did we get such high numbers?
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03-03-2014, 09:10 PM | #90 |
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It's not over yet...
Quite a number of members with suspicious screennames on here right now. Of course I could be misjudging them. It could be that 7xsdfs7d304, jingsd304 and the rest are just innocent Tolkien enthusiasts...
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03-03-2014, 09:12 PM | #91 |
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Wow, I cross-edited with your post about the exact same thing. Since when are there so many at the same time?
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03-03-2014, 09:17 PM | #92 |
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Their names will show in our list as new members. But they can't post. And they will disappear from the member list when I delete them.
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03-03-2014, 09:22 PM | #93 |
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Ah, ah, good! I saw one numerical member post and wondered if somehow the numbers allowed them to slip through.
Thanks for the improvement. I hope the moderating won't interfere with your running adventures.
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03-03-2014, 09:47 PM | #94 |
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I am currently in "resting" mode, so I have time for moderating.
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03-04-2014, 07:06 AM | #95 | |
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Did I hear "running" is among the BW's pastimes? Is there another Downer besides me who gets up at 5 AM only to go sweat and get sore mucles?
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03-06-2014, 05:57 PM | #96 |
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Still no new re-directs. Hopefully, any members who took a temporary leave from the forum for that reason will return now.
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03-06-2014, 06:15 PM | #97 |
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I haven't seen that many spammers lately too. ...? *hopeful look*
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06-15-2014, 03:27 PM | #98 |
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I'm fairly sure this is related to the earlier glitch problem - has anyone else been signed up on the Russian Brides site? I (or rather, my email address) was, and by the name Jesper at that! Alas I was negligent enough to delete my account before checking out what kind of fake profile they'd made for me.
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06-15-2014, 03:42 PM | #99 | |
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08-13-2014, 11:21 AM | #100 |
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can one of the mods tell me if you are thinking of changing the colour of the background and font' its really difficult to read without a headache, maybe its just me but its not relaxing.
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08-13-2014, 11:31 AM | #101 |
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Hi, Fernie, reading light on dark can be harder for some people. I will let the powers answer your question but if you scroll down the page to Thread options and click on show printable version it will show as plain black on white. Hope that helps.
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08-14-2014, 09:03 AM | #102 |
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cool will try that option. ta very much
edit. yep that works much better. thanks |
07-31-2016, 07:37 AM | #103 |
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This is a relatively minor matter, but the past several days I've had problems with the forum loading.
I get 'connection timed out' messages, and when the pages finally load, sometimes the icons are missing. It doesn't seem to be happening on other sites.
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07-31-2016, 09:23 AM | #104 |
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I haven't had any issues. Maybe something your end? What about other servers?
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07-31-2016, 09:57 AM | #105 |
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I'm not seeing any issues with other sites. It's odd.
This is actually my second attempt making this post. The first timed out.
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07-31-2016, 10:56 AM | #106 |
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Very weird.
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08-01-2016, 09:18 AM | #107 |
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I'm at a different computer today, using a different ISP. Same problems: slow loading, some timeout messages, and sometimes missing icons.
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08-01-2016, 03:07 PM | #108 |
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Is the only image you are able to see a pair of burnt, withering hands encompassed in flame? If so, I suggest you get your Palantir serviced.
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08-02-2016, 07:51 AM | #109 | |
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10-12-2016, 03:10 PM | #110 |
Blossom of Dwimordene
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For the last couple hours I've been redirected to a white-and-blue themed search site with various suggested LOTR search terms when I tried to get to this site. I have no idea what that was, but it was somewhat amusing. Did anyone else witness that teleportation?
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10-12-2016, 04:00 PM | #111 |
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I haven't seen that, being on and off of here all today.
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10-13-2016, 08:23 PM | #112 |
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I had the screen too.
It also said the barrowdowns.com domain name had expired.
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10-14-2016, 06:13 AM | #113 |
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But we're back! Insert catchy theme song here.
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10-14-2016, 06:30 AM | #114 |
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Downers on Facebook contacted the Barrow Wight about the problem and Mithadan was able to find out how to correct the domain issue, which the BW promptly did.
Voila, the Downs is back in town. Is there an elvish word for voila?
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10-14-2016, 06:56 AM | #115 |
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Thanks to Mithadan
I noticed this absence of barrowdowns.com too, and thank Mithadan for dealing with the matter.
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10-14-2016, 07:13 AM | #116 | |
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Praise them with Great Praise!
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10-14-2016, 07:42 AM | #117 |
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*Mithadan bows to his old friend, Kuruharan.
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10-14-2016, 09:56 AM | #118 |
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Indeed....
Eglerio! A laita te! Andave laituvalmet!
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10-14-2016, 10:00 AM | #119 |
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Leave it to a loyer.
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10-14-2016, 04:26 PM | #120 |
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I wish to thank the powers that be
For reviving the forum for you and me. We the snarks and squirrels, scholars and clowns, Welcome back the Barrow-Downs.
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