Gee…I just bulk deleted about 300 bogus user log-ons.  Somebody's been playing the Hack game…ya think?  I get e-mail notice of all posts and new-user Log-in.  They appear in the SPAM section so I don't always look at them because the 180 pieces of SF Spam-mail just gets a one-click mass delete.  HOWEVER, I couldn't help noticing the huge influx of "New Users"  in the past week or so.  Thought it was time to do a little userlist housekeeping.  Yep…about 300 from one "name" with different numbers in it…all on the same stupid e-mail address.  Damn, that's too easy.  Just mark it once, let the program search for them all and 2 clicks deletes.  Hey…FOOL…it took me less time to zap your shit than it did for your spammer program to put it on the Board.  Get a LIFE!  Find something to do with your time other than constantly adjusting the damn electrodes that are buried in your brain.

Not the only stupid, bogus user logs I found.  Kids, I've been doing board administration longer than just about anybody on the Internet…even before the modern 'Net was born.  All that time, I've studied the psychology of users the way they identify themselves and interact.  That's especially interesting on an alias-encouraged system like this one.  SO, it's pretty easy to spot the fools who use too many consonants in the user name and/or the e-mail address.  When I read through a user list the phonies light up like X-mas trees.

If nothing else, it was good ADMIN practice.  Thanks for that, Jackasses.     

Well, the dinosaurs and the magic Wizards all tell me that it's just a childish "power play".  Done, of course, by those who feel they have no REAL power in their lives.  I've been handling this crap on BBS and Forums since I started.  You kind of expect it with the TEEN kiddies on general and game type boards,(gawd help us, the "FILE SHARING" places were always open territory…which is one reason I never ran one), so it's pretty stupid activity from "assumed" adults on things like Glass boards.   However, it's all part of the Admin job.  I have to say that it's so much easier now than it was about 20 to 25 years ago when computer and Forum programs were more primitive and vulnerable.  I don't even want to THINK about all the work and programming I had to do back then to keep ahead of the idiots.

This problem does seem to come in spurts.  Some jerk who discovers a program that "repeats" log-on with no effort from him…whatever.  They don't give a rat's ass WHAT kind of board they're crapping on…anything electronic will do.  Everybody thinks he's re-inventing the wheel.

UPDATE on the Spam-bot Logins.  I have HAD it!  There's no end in sight for these pieces of trash.  With a very rare exception, they are all from gmail.  Now I know some of you guys have gmail addresses.  The people I recognize are safe.  The rest of them are just bogus log-ons who never validate the registration process and actually can't because the e-mail address is not confirmable (is that a word?).  Anyway, they're not dangerous to board security.  They're not reading or posting…they just muck up the userlist with phony names (STUPID..unpronounceable names…easy to spot).

So, because I have other things to do rather than sit here 3 times a day deleting 40 or 50 idiot log-ins, we have set a VERY short time limit for people to come back and verify their registration by entering the Forum generated password.  24 hrs…you snooze, you're history.  I'll never put limits on people who don't post.  I love our lurkers and readers are welcome.

IF you have a valid gmail address and suddenly find yourself unable to log in, well maybe I got carried away and accidentally zapped you….sorry 'bout that.  Send me some e-mail at angelica@siliconfolly.com to fix it.  OR, maybe you have a kinky username or weird e-mail name and I don't recognize it and you've never posted….I repeat, send me e-mail.  This new restriction will catch the "bots" in future and eliminate the human "admin" connection. 

So, what will I do for fun now?

uh-huh.  Knowing you, any movie made from that list would have to air on Cable TV…After 11pm…or on the "adult Channel…still after 11pm.