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| Quote: | Requested username: Malek13
Describe your Star Wars fandom. : The best
What attracts you to Star Wars D6?/Why do you like it? : For power
How did you find The Rancor Pit? : Google |
Their fandom is "the best". Probably because of all the "power" they get from SWD6. Unlimited power! 
And that last question is about worthless, isn't it?
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Whill
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| Whill wrote: | | Quote: | Requested username: jackiesmith5
Describe your Star Wars fandom. : Starkiller
What attracts you to Star Wars D6?/Why do you like it? : starkiller
How did you find The Rancor Pit? : google |
I'm the spamkiller.
Has anyone even statted out Starkiller base?  |
| Quote: | username: michaelharbert
fandom: Starkiller
why_like: nice
how_found: best |
This was likely the prior guy trying again with a different email address, which already hit a spam reporting site last week. When will you learn?
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2023 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | username: <redacted>
email: <redacted>
fandom: <redacted>
why_like: digital marketing
how_found: digital marketing |
I never show the email addresses but I redacted more in this case because the fandom answer was the email address and username was the beginning of the email address, which has already hit spam reporting from other sites. Digitally market this!
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Whill
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| Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2023 3:30 am Post subject: |
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I've started getting more registration requests like the one above, except that they just put the name of the product they selling as the username and the bottom three questions, almost as if they just hope I will post it here so it is still getting visibility on the web. I will obviously not be sharing those here at all and just following the reject/report process.
I've also noticed a few of insidious ones that put realistic answers so I create the account and register them. Then they activate their account, log in once, and quietly update their profile with their product's website, which is then visible (with an active link) on the Memberlist. When discovered these I removed the website URL and banned their accounts. I went back as far as when I became admin of this site to confirm there are no more accounts from recent years sitting here with spammer websites. I will periodically be looking for this going forward since I can't weed these out up front.
Spam is the devil! 
| Quote: | username: jzlnellis21
fandom: galaxy
why_like: 1999
how_found: head left up the vines and into the little mineshaft to your left |
He has a galactic fandom because of TPM? 
The 'how found' answer is apparently a game guide suggestion for finding or defeating the rancor in the Jedi: Survivor game. This apparently non-native English-speaker tried to come up with things that he thought might fly. From quick internet searches the same username and email address are posted in many internet forums on various subject matters, and the user is presenting themselves as a company that sells generic ED pills out of Australia (I did not click on any links). I have family living in Australia and they all have a much better command of the English language than this guy, lol.
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Whill
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| Quote: | "American website always use name plus number. List of American names..."
username: Mary9
fandom: Eric2
why_like: Billy1
how_found: Nancy5
"There. I submit registration request. Now I wait. Website will grant me access and I spam Americans." |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:01 am Post subject: |
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After reading that I truly regret that the pit has no facepalm emote. Then, the truly sinister occurred to me - was this some script kiddy following a list of instructions too closely...or an attempt to prompt an AI script that failed epicly?
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| KageRyu wrote: | | After reading that I truly regret that the pit has no facepalm emote. Then, the truly sinister occurred to me - was this some script kiddy following a list of instructions too closely...or an attempt to prompt an AI script that failed epicly? |
AI is not new. It is just advancing into new areas. Bots that attempt to register to forums have existed since long before I took over the Pit. We have protections in place to prevent both live spammers and bots from registering.
Despite my jokes with this one, it is possible it could have been a bot too. Some of the registrations that answer the questions with answers that are vaguely Star Wars related could be live spammers with a poor command of English, or more advanced AI trying to sound relevant.
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will I be reported if I write SPAM SPAM SPAM?
I still LOVE this section of the Pit, mostly the "comments" left in the posts on the spammers user name or otherwise  |
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