Seasons

does anyone remember the plan I proposed for a bot that responds to forum and blog posts with its own blogs? I lost the plans, as the text file containing them dissapeard with my old laptop's usefulness.

Hey guys. My first reaction was to suspend her accounts, but I found her postings so pervasive that I decided to delete all her posts as well. I also deleted many of the posts responding to her, as without the originals there they didnt make much sense.

I set up a moderator/reporting system on another BBS of mine, which is probably a good idea here. I could set an honor threshold and if you're above that you'll be able to report a user, which will email me a message along with their recent activity.

Sounds good, but let us be wearry of people who might try to take shortcuts to garner enough honor to have that power. I.E. meaningless keyphrase responpses, and post flooding... but the post flooding could be prevented by the mods.

The idea is that nothing would be automatic - it would go through me and I'd be able to judge the situation and probably delete the account of the spammer who is reporting people who dont deserve it.

Sounds like an excellent idea. It'll hopefully remain a rare occasional problem, but when it strikes - it's certainly a pain.

Can't think of any other holes in the plan. I agree with Psimagus. Let this be rare. but now we have a leeds shield and a roxie guard. Yay!

Thank you Prof. Sounds like a great plan.

*rubs crystal ball*

I don't know the past, but I see a PF account closing in the very near future. About half an hour before an Australian ISP's abuse department gets so many complaints that they terminate several user accounts without notice...

Question: Is it feasible for the Prof to block an IP address entirely? This may be required.

Probably not an IP address exactly (given that most ISP's dynamically allocate them, so they change with each logon), but he could probably block the whole domain.
Mind you, I still think complaints to the ISP's abuse dep't would do the job. They'll at least warn her sternly not to continue this on pain of losing her account with them, or they'll just cut her off without a warning if they consider it serious enough.
Doesn't guarantee she won't sign up with the next ISP in the phonebook and start again, but word gets round - if she persists, she'll rapidly run out of companies who'll rent her a connection, and she'll have to go back to vandalising bus shelters and bullying the other kids in kindergarten.

I have no problem being your friend Jak- er goth, but you are going to have to be nicer to people on the forge, and stop spamming the forums... on... it might also help to make a bot and get some development points on it. Even as busy as i am, i still come on daily and get about 24 new lines of conversation in. With the ammount of time you spend spamming the forums... you could have a very impressive bot!

Not much point developing her bots - she, and they, will be deleted long before the next daily development update.