Cyprus-Forum.com

[RichardB]

Hello,

What you see are accounts generated automatically by bots or manually by spammers. Most of them register just to have their profile details, which include URLs to porn and other such websites, listed on our forum. Unfortunately for them I have modified the forum software so that their profiles and those URLs are shown nowhere and therefore they do not receive the benefit they hoped for. In a future upgrade of the forum I will make it more difficult for bots to register new accounts. Dealing with spammers that manually create accounts is not as easy though.

I am doing my best to keep the forum spam free and this is why you will almost never see posts by spammers littering the forum.

denizaksulu, the passwords are issued automatically by the forum software and not by me. This is why you receive them immediately after you fill in the "Send me a new password" form. The auto generated passwords are in that form because that form is the hardest to be guessed. It is not advised to use a dictionary word or a name as a password.

Thank you

thank you admin

you're on the ball tonight

[Oracle]

Why do we have URLs to porn sites ... and where are they? What have our profiles to do with getting access to porn sites?

I am genuinely ignorant of these things and none of this makes sense to me .... I don't want access to a porn site, I have not inadvertently stumbled on any yet, but now I am worried I may do so ....

[cyprusgrump]

Why do we have URLs to porn sites ... and where are they? What have our profiles to do with getting access to porn sites?

I am genuinely ignorant of these things and none of this makes sense to me .... I don't want access to a porn site, I have not inadvertently stumbled on any yet, but now I am worried I may do so ....

Spammers can use software applications called ‘bots’ to automatically register on forums like this.

The advantage to them is that they are then added to the members list and have links in their signatures to porn sites, etc. In that way, when the sites is inspected by the likes of google these porn sites are also included.

However, on this site the members list is not publicly available and the Admin take care to vet all new members and delete those that are not real people so you are quite safe.

[EDIT]

PS that is also the reason why new members have to make a number of posts before they have access to the PM facility… Stops people joining the forum just to send advertising to all the other members.

[Oracle]

Why do we have URLs to porn sites ... and where are they? What have our profiles to do with getting access to porn sites?

I am genuinely ignorant of these things and none of this makes sense to me .... I don't want access to a porn site, I have not inadvertently stumbled on any yet, but now I am worried I may do so ....

Spammers can use software applications called ‘bots’ to automatically register on forums like this.

The advantage to them is that they are then added to the members list and have links in their signatures to porn sites, etc. In that way, when the sites is inspected by the likes of google these porn sites are also included.

However, on this site the members list is not publicly available and the Admin take care to vet all new members and delete those that are not real people so you are quite safe.

[EDIT]

PS that is also the reason why new members have to make a number of posts before they have access to the PM facility… Stops people joining the forum just to send advertising to all the other members.

OK I get it .... I didn't even know we had a members list here.

Seems you are quite the pro when it comes to fora.

How many forums have you been on / administer?

[Get Real!]

I am doing my best to keep the forum spam free and this is why you will almost never see posts by spammers littering the forum.

People please stop eating Spam and if you must at least dispose of the can thoughtfully...

[Oracle]

Actually I'm not clear what constitutes as Spam either?

[denizaksulu]

Actually I'm not clear what constitutes as Spam either?

Good morning Oracle. Look into your garden. Any flora you have planted are flowers. All the others are weeds. To me they are all the same. So spam is what you do not desire.

Thank you admin for clearing this up.

Thanks thr grump for telling us what a' bot ' is. What do the letters 'BOT' stand for Grump?

[zan]

Actually I'm not clear what constitutes as Spam either?

Good morning Oracle. Look into your garden. Any flora you have planted are flowers. All the others are weeds. To me they are all the same. So spam is what you do not desire.

Thank you admin for clearing this up.

Thanks thr grump for telling us what a' bot ' is. What do the letters 'BOT' stand for Grump?

I think you might find her garden is barren....

[denizaksulu]

Actually I'm not clear what constitutes as Spam either?

Good morning Oracle. Look into your garden. Any flora you have planted are flowers. All the others are weeds. To me they are all the same. So spam is what you do not desire.

Thank you admin for clearing this up.

Thanks thr grump for telling us what a' bot ' is. What do the letters 'BOT' stand for Grump?

I think you might find her garden is barren....

Zan, you are cruel. Our Oracle has an upcoming chess champion. He might even go to the same school as your lad.

[zan]

Actually I'm not clear what constitutes as Spam either?

Good morning Oracle. Look into your garden. Any flora you have planted are flowers. All the others are weeds. To me they are all the same. So spam is what you do not desire.

Thank you admin for clearing this up.

Thanks thr grump for telling us what a' bot ' is. What do the letters 'BOT' stand for Grump?

I think you might find her garden is barren....

Zan, you are cruel. Our Oracle has an upcoming chess champion. He might even go to the same school as your lad.

I diddn't mean that


I should have painted the full picture. Flora doesn't grow on burning rock in deep deep caves....