Community Forums => I'M BACK => Topic started by: Stratos on April 24, 2010, 05:43:40 PM
Title: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: Stratos on April 24, 2010, 05:43:40 PM
Looks like 'The Great Bot Purge Of 2010' has commenced and will go down in history as the greatest digital slaughter of the new decade.
Only 6000 members versus a previous number of 13694
Over 7000 bots were killed in the forum strike of 2010. Did you lose someone in this attack?
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: Mop it up on April 24, 2010, 05:50:15 PM
Oh wow, I didn't even notice that. Good catch!
I'm going to guess that an admin decided to go through and delete a bunch of members with 0-3 posts, which are all likely bots. I'm pretty sure only admins can delete members, so I'm going to guess it was MegaByte, second guess Pale.
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 24, 2010, 05:57:47 PM
Soooooo........
The countdown to the 10,000th member begins anew.
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: Stratos on April 24, 2010, 06:09:58 PM
Considering this year is already a record year for new members I'm sure we'll break it before the end of the year.
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 24, 2010, 06:14:35 PM
Yeah, but how many of those were just eradicated?
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: Mop it up on April 24, 2010, 06:17:51 PM
How many of the new members will be destroyed? This is only the beginning, no bots are safe!
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: Stratos on April 24, 2010, 06:22:20 PM
What I'm saying is if it keeps the pace of new member sign ups we've already had then we will break 10k this year.
In the first 4 months of 2010 we've already gotten more new members than 2009 and 2008 combined.
Even without the abnormal boost in April we were on par to have a record year. It's quite possible it has to do with the 3DS and possible Wii2 excitement but more likely the April spike is because of a new strain of bots that learned to bypass the forum security software.
LOL, maybe I should have just kept this in the stats thread. I meant it to be funny and silly but it's getting too serious.
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: Mop it up on April 24, 2010, 06:24:54 PM
My point was, how many of those new members will be bots who will be deleted? If the staff are going to start cracking down and removing spambots, it'd take a long time to rack up enough legitimate members to reach 10,000.
And I probably shouldn't assume that they're done either. I'm sure not all of those 6,000 members are legit. We may lose more.
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: Stratos on April 24, 2010, 06:35:19 PM
I don't think they will do it again for a while. Just cull the list when it gets to a certain point.
It's like our computer system at work can only hold so many customers. But once it fills a certain percent of the database it goes through and deletes older accounts that have not been used for a while.
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: stevey on April 24, 2010, 07:22:30 PM
damn, five of my backup/joke accounts are dead :'( The others are lonely..
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: BeautifulShy on April 24, 2010, 07:34:09 PM
You want to share which accounts were gone stevey?
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: ShyGuy on April 24, 2010, 07:34:20 PM
I have no problem with this purge, Robots aren't people and they don't deserve human rights. Keep 'em out of where I eat and sleep, they can do down to the bots only sections of the forum.
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: nickmitch on April 24, 2010, 07:57:13 PM
Well, now the robophiles are gonna go off on a tyrade, screaming, "MURDERERS!!"
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: NWR_insanolord on April 25, 2010, 01:41:47 AM
You can't prove a goddamned th-- wait, you said digital genocide? Never mind then.
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: Shaymin on April 25, 2010, 07:42:03 AM
"Execute order 66."
"Yes, my lord."
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: ThePerm on April 25, 2010, 11:34:19 PM
so many people joined these forums in 2004, never posted, and were only active for a week.
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: Mop it up on April 25, 2010, 11:37:26 PM
so many people joined these forums in 2004, never posted, and were only active for a week.
Like me?
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: ThePerm on April 25, 2010, 11:45:22 PM
lol no you have since returned and became someone with almost as many posts as me I have 7792 and you have 7242, im pretty sure you'll pass me up in about 3 months or less if people have never posted and haven't been logged in since 2004 they should be deleted.
Title: Re: So who commited digital genocide?
Post by: Stratos on April 26, 2010, 03:17:27 AM
LOL, Mop it up is a fellow poasting addict like me.
