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by santeewelding

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There is no point to TR Discussions. It has been taken -- or, given over -- to the unpaid. Or, is it, paid?

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by Wizard57M-TR

no way to follow them, no continuity.
Spammers to the left of me, idiots to the right,
here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
(Apologies to Steeler's Wheel)

by michael jay

things are not so good, this is good, perhaps really good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpfcydeSGeo&feature=relmfu

by michael jay

sweet stuff, reminds me old Motown stuff, so cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQklopXpQGA&feature=relmfu

by boxfiddler

Friday, isn't it. I never heard of him before tonight, either. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfpJmbF1NSc&feature=relmfu

by michael jay

But such soulful music I have not heard in quite a while

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz3D6hh-TyI&feature=related

by michael jay

Smooth, sweet, simple, but back to the original problem, there is not even a CAPTCHA for new members, bots may roam free into TR and post with abandon as it seems they are. Or are they real folks trying to make a living in these troubled times?

I do not know, but it makes a mess of the board.

by Wizard57M-TR

Seems some of them cut and paste parts of a blog or discussion
then add the spam link in. Sneaky.
ps...sorry about any typos, I'm trying to watch a football game
at the same time!

by santeewelding

Trying to market their way out of the mess the world is in. Same what got the world into the mess. Only way they can make a buck is with repeating and unremitting volume. If there were captchas, they'd hire themselves out to get by for a penny apiece. That would make them no less IT than any here.

by ansugisalas

At least some of them trigger my turing detectors.
That's how I found the . and O .

Of course some of them may be scriptmonkeys working with a tool feeding them bot-generated lines. But 24 posts a minute is too much work for anyone. Besides, the SEO purposes they serve (they're not advertising) need thousands and thousands of links. And who is paying the money for the SEO effort? Can they afford to pay a wage for something a bot could do? I doubt it.

Generating a semi-relevant response is a piece of cake.

by hal 9000

Cus when whoever Broke TR Broke it it stopped people being able to use it.

Simple really isn't it? :O

[i]Edited to add[/i] But if this helps Davette I can post to that thread and edit posts without any problems. So what have you done this time? :0

Still using Dialup or have you returned to Civilization Davette? That could be the issue the Data Transfer is too slow for the Site.

Col

by charliespencer

Ansu was playing games with tags and broke his own discussion. Sometimes I'm able to post to it, sometimes not.

by ansugisalas

I did break my own discussion, but "Sorry I broke TR wasn't it".
Seanferd broke that one...
Except he managed to break it only partially.
Far as I can tell, nobody can post to the one I broke :D

By the way, you asked about the five days thing... that whole sentence about the five days was a link to "Family Radio"s Nutcase McCampings latest bestest prediction... the world did end back then, "spiritually", but on friday it ends for realz!

by seanferd

As niether the code nor pre tags did their job when I pasted the source code from the thread where Ansu originally broke the site. Or, rather, it is broken, but Ansu (and then I) exposed this.

by charliespencer

and I doubt he consults a Ouija board either. Those were just the first two devices I thought of that he might regard as Satanic. Maybe he just uses a 'Magic 8 Ball'; it doesn't require any operator training (or sense).

by tink!

Been away too much. Popped in only a moment or two in the last several weeks (I'm not in the Top 100 any more :( ). Have TR Discussions really lost all hope? Sounds like they've become overrun with spammers?

Sad.

by jamesrl

The battle I had one afternoon a couple of weeks back, it was most definately a bot. I was flagging a post every 30 seconds or so, and I was definately outpaced.

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