Winnipeg

Wish to share IP Ranges? I wouldn't mind adding those to my iptables bans.

Yeap, looks like a new Bot Network...most of the IPs were from residential ISP's Dynamic IP ranges. Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, some random server in Germany which is flagged as a SOCKS5 proxy. Fun times. Unfortunately this means they might make a comeback as the infected home PCs get new IP Addresses, but the Usernames have been banned...

Killed. Banning the related IP Subnets....but there were 2 users and each used a total of 20+ networks, so we'll see how much of the world I have to ban. I suspect it's a new bot network as it all happened so quickly. And I've already got 4 hits from the bots trying to login now that I've banned their usernames.... So if the site goes offline again you know why...

I'll look at adding it...for the moment I have to get going to work.

I can do that if you wish ( I used to tie it to a census app that I built for the merit ages ago, but... ), but the reason I have not yet done that was you don't have any way to verify what people put in there short of having them PM you in game to verify. Which is a long winded process, but if people want it I can add it.

... Maybe he's friends with Rob Ford....

You use Internet Exploder? I hope you got version 10 of it at least...

*cough*

The Merit might have been based largely on the Senatus Populusque Romanus on the surface, we had a huge 1984 theme going on underneath. The Administrative forums were called Airstrip One, and most of the ministries were named for the ministries in 1984. The player I got along with the worst usually wore the title Goldstein....unlike here, the Merit never allowed users to set their own forum titles....

I was actually referring to 1984's Ministry of Love, or Miniluv in newspeak. But I guess the IRC thing works too.... I suppose everyone thinks I'm referring to something other than 1984 when I use the title Big Brother....

Miniluv can make anything happen.

The People's Republics of Winnipeg have disposed of this opiate of the masses. While we cannot support other nations choosing to dose their populations with superstitions and ancient bogeymen, neither will we prevent you from doing so, just do not try to spread it within our borders.[/national leader hat] (Just to be clear, this is an "In character" response and in no way reflects the policies of this forum...[/admin hat])

Yeap, I've seen a few forums like that...IPB, phpBB, VB, SimpleMachines, you name it, they've got a "working group" to hack it. This is one of the reasons that you don't see the version number in the footer of IPB, or any major Forum Software anymore. Btw, I'll be sending you a link later this evening with some changes I've made...

Yeah, not sure what draws them in to be honest.... At work the school district website has a form for signing up for the district (and individual schools) newsletter, and the number of spam emails I get in there is rediculous, like they think it's some sort of commenting system. The Feedback system was even worst, but I've since replaced it with a revamped version that has a spam filter in place...not one piece of spam since I enacted it.

So I was looking at my stats in the Admin Panel....so far this year we've stopped nearly 7000 SPAMers from registering...and those are only the ones that made it by the built in spam controls from Invision... so how knows how many have actually been stopped. Anyway, here is a fun little info graphic for us to remember it by. It should be noted that December 2012 has 0 for it's numbers...so I think the Stop Forum SPAM plugin mashed Decemeber 2012 and Janruary 2013 together, I don't think we had a bumper crop of spam registrations in Jan...

He seems to have dropped several endos in the last few updates...but I suspect that is people responding to your post rather than his own actions since his sent endorsements remain high.

Good Luck Galen! I'm sure you two will be quite happy

Long time no see Ivan.

Hardly the first Consul Election...Early 2003 I think for that... 2002 was the era of the Isles and we hadn't really adopted the Roman naming theme yet.

lol, the Merit system had the option of just showing how many votes each option had or it could list the voting users as they voted. It also could keep the results secret until the vote had concluded.

That was later...The Meritocracy pre-dated Invader/Defender politics... But it did devolve to NPO vs ADN... The region was definitely more RP oriented...players role played as members of the government for their respective countries rather than as a single citizen of a region like you see in most Invader/Defender game play. Made for a different sort of game play...we did have our own foray into Defending/Invading...we went to war with Atlantic in 2003... Anyway, I highly doubt it will ever get resurrected.

Should be able to...it was set to 0 which disables the users ability to edit their own titles...I've never been a fan of letting users change their own title, but it's been a TWP tradition since I've been around. I've set it to a minimum of 5 posts and then you can edit your title, just FYI.

I'd have to build it from the ground up...you might recall it never worked in the last version of the site...time is not something I've had alot of as of late. I've been busy learning Coldfusion for work since the websites there that I have to support are all Coldfusion (for the record, not my choice! I'd switch them all to PHP in a heartbeat if I could). I'll see what I can do but no promises.

We did...never really got used much...

Done. You're tempting me to make you an Admin with how active you've suddenly become.