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[Steam]

Much better today, so far anyway.

[Quinlan minor]

First day that I haven't had a dropout for more than a week.

[sonikk4]

Just been going through the Admin logs and looking at how many spammers have been joining the forum and its not as many as i thought it would be, so potentially not them.

 

However talking to Deathrow he says its possible there have been a lot of people / bots etc trying to do naughty things and to quote him The traffic isn't people who use the forum, websites get hit by people scanning for vulnerabilities, search engine scrapers etc."

[beardylondon]

Yeah better today

[timmy850]

Today it says there’s about 2500 guests browsing at this particular moment, which is much higher than a few months back

Also the “record number” of users online at one time was set at +24,000 in April 2025, which can only be explained as bots, there’s no way there was that many actual users online at that time

Edited by timmy850, Today, 01:21 AM.

[sonikk4]

The way the system has been set up is that no spammer “should” get through. The process that allows us to get people will capture the vast majority.

However we do have members who have not posted in years so either left the mini fraternity or who other things going on in their lives and these particular accounts for whatever reason were hacked some while ago so the system is not 100% foolproof.

So from what I can see now after Adam has explained it to me, the more foot traffic we have over and above the norm that we normally see will slow the system down to the point it’s overwhelmed. Now I’m no computer expert far from it but I can see the logic behind this and as such what an be done??

There is always somewhere out there in “I’m going to piss someone off because I can land” and there is very little we can do about it. Why people feel the need to do this just typifies the thought processes of a small group of individuals.

[Ethel]

Every chance it's not even people now. Doing it bcause it can be done, in order to just get better at doing it - it's the AI way.