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No, the theory is that it was a time when a bunch of bots (or something like that) hit the system.  I don't know enough about computers to know what they are talking about.  Kind of like spamming a bunch of email boxes?  I am truly a noob at computers to understand what exactly happen.  I do know that it wasn't a lot of actual users.

There are programs (Bots) that register for user-names on forums for the purpose of spamming.  It can be quite a plague because the user-names typically seem like names you'd see from a real person.  They are quite annoying.

-C_S

Correct.  That is why no one can be a forum member until approved by an admin.  The admins take a couple of steps of effort to investigate the E-mail address and IP address of a member applicant on these boards.  One great tool would be the use forum spam report websites.

Godbless.

people were really really board, all at the same time. lol

Quote from: COUNTER_SNIPER on March 24, 2011, 10:07:01 PM

There are programs (Bots) that register for user-names on forums for the purpose of spamming.  It can be quite a plague because the user-names typically seem like names you'd see from a real person.  They are quite annoying.

-C_S

Correct.  That is why no one can be a forum member until approved by an admin.  The admins take a couple of steps of effort to investigate the E-mail address and IP address of a member applicant on these boards.  One great tool would be the use forum spam report websites.

Godbless.

Yes, that's one of the things we used for our forum when it was up.

-C_S