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Recently Kwackerz has mentioned that we get a fair few spammers trying to join Ridersite.
As has also been mentioned, Pete and I have had our Moderator powers "enhanced" and we've been able to see whether these spammers really exist or whether Tim is just a big old whinge-bag (OK, so maybe not a big old whinge-bag but a small one who whinges a lot).

So I thought I'd run a quick Poll to see what the ordinary man or woman on a bike/trike estimates to be the scale things.

I got my first email letting me know that someone had requested to join at 17:00 on 2nd April. Your job is to guess how many emails will have come in by the same time on 9th April.
Thinking about how many new forum users have introduced themselves in that time may or may not be a help

Click the Link: SPAMALOT

Results will be announced when I get round to it


Tim, Sam, Pete - you can't play .... nobody likes a cheat

I like it.

The clever ones amongst you may try to look at the memberlist and count how many joined after a certain date.. wont work unfortunately as Ive deleted hundreds of spam accounts..

I think the number will horrify folk....

Aladinsaneuk wrote:I think the number will horrify folk....

Nah - it'll probably just confirm that Tim is a whining big girl's blouse .... surely ?

Know all about spam bots from my classic bike forum admin days.. It got so bad once the servers couldn't cope n' the lot crashed. Recovered most, but lost a hell of a lot.. Even after daily back ups. This would've been between 2003 and 2007 (ish), so can only imagine it's got worse. Really wouldn't like to put a number on it, but the average IIRC from the classic forum was around 30-40 bots per day.

Lol

All I can say

im going to say 150 - 200.

I'll take a guess at 15

Can't remember the exact number I chose, but it was close to 700.

OY YOU LOT

Don't give your answers in this thread - click the link and record your result there ..... ones on here don't count!

...... kids

(BTW I know some of you have clicked the link and answered)

Time is almost up.

What's the prize?

Samray wrote:Time is almost up.

What's the prize?

..... Measuring time period is almost up ..... the guessing game may go on a while longer (just to let everyone have a guess).

I've put up the quiz, maybe Pete can sort out the prize - perhaps a DIY enema or something?

D-Rider wrote:

Samray wrote:Time is almost up.

What's the prize?

..... Measuring time period is almost up ..... the guessing game may go on a while longer (just to let everyone have a guess).

I've put up the quiz, maybe Pete can sort out the prize - perhaps a DIY enema or something?

I think you may have failed to grasp the porpoise of a prize.
It's meant to encourage entries.

Rofl


No Mao in this instance....