Topic: So who commited digital genocide?

[Stratos]

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?

[Mop it up]

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.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Soooooo........

The countdown to the 10,000th member begins anew.

[Stratos]

Considering this year is already a record year for new members I'm sure we'll break it before the end of the year.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Yeah, but how many of those were just eradicated?

[Mop it up]

How many of the new members will be destroyed? This is only the beginning, no bots are safe!

[Stratos]

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.

2008 - 456
2009 - 974
2010 - 3823
>Jan - 330
>Feb - 374
>Mar - 582
>Apr - 2537

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.

[Mop it up]

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.

[Stratos]

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.

[stevey]

damn, five of my backup/joke accounts are dead The others are lonely..

[BeautifulShy]

You want to share which accounts were gone stevey?

[ShyGuy]

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.

[nickmitch]

Well, now the robophiles are gonna go off on a tyrade, screaming, "MURDERERS!!"

[NWR_insanolord]

You can't prove a goddamned th-- wait, you said digital genocide? Never mind then.

[Shaymin]

"Execute order 66."

"Yes, my lord."

[ThePerm]

so many people joined these forums in 2004, never posted, and were only active for a week.

[Mop it up]

so many people joined these forums in 2004, never posted, and were only active for a week.

Like me?

[ThePerm]

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.

[Stratos]

LOL, Mop it up is a fellow poasting addict like me.