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« on: July 16, 2007, 11:09:46 PM »

A new member is going through all the El entries and changing them to Spanish.  Is there any way this kind of thing can be avoided?
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« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2007, 01:07:23 AM »

I long since banned him. So it's over.
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« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2007, 11:04:29 PM »

Speaking of vandalism, some bot or spammer has created thousands of user accounts.  No wonder the site is sometimes slow.

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https://www.supermanthroughtheages.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&limit=500&offset=100
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« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2007, 12:46:13 AM »

Great Rao, is there anyway you can delete all of those accounts in red?

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« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2007, 02:57:33 AM »

Great Rao, is there anyway you can delete all of those accounts in red?


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[macduff@supermanica]$ php removeUnusedAccounts.php --delete

Remove Unused Accounts
This script will delete all users who have made no edits and uploaded no files.

Found 1069 accounts.

Locating inactive users...done.
966 inactive accounts found.
Deleting...done.
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« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2007, 03:22:42 AM »

fantastic!

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« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2007, 07:00:48 AM »

Spambots -- welcome to the Phantom Zone.   Grin
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« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2007, 02:31:03 AM »

Ughhh...

These infinite member bots are back...

https://www.supermanthroughtheages.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Listusers
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