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Offline RhoSigma

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What's going on here?
« on: May 04, 2020, 06:21:19 am »
Hi admins,

since approx. 24 houres I notice a massive Guest activity on the Who's online page:
https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?action=who

but it seems the same topics are referenced every second, Is our forum being attacked?
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FellippeHeitor

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Re: What's going on here?
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2020, 06:35:54 am »
There has been a very intense QBasic-related series of tweets being published on Twitter and our account has been interacting. Could be a wave of curious visitors.

About it being the same topics, it could be interesting titles.
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Offline RhoSigma

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Re: What's going on here?
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2020, 07:04:19 am »
Ahh, well then, I did suspect some kind of a spam attack...
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Re: What's going on here?
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2020, 07:47:21 am »
Ha! Man I never knew you could see what other people were reading! :)

Update: Oh look at the #1 Topic at this forum!
« Last Edit: May 04, 2020, 07:56:53 am by bplus »
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Offline Cobalt

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Re: What's going on here?
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2020, 10:53:28 am »
looks like my Tetris is getting checked out a fair bit today! Good or Bad though?
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FellippeHeitor

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Re: What's going on here?
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2020, 10:55:04 am »
Yeah, this unfortunately is the work of bots, it seems:

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Offline RhoSigma

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Re: What's going on here?
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2020, 11:26:35 am »
Yeah, and those will screw up the view histories, which Qwerky is so fixed to, as if they would provide any evidence of relevance of a specific user or project.

EDIT:
But at least it seems to be over now, It shows now 22 Guests/3 Users (1 Hidden), that's what I usually see in average here, 20-40 Guests, 0 to 5 users.
« Last Edit: May 04, 2020, 11:30:21 am by RhoSigma »
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FellippeHeitor

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Re: What's going on here?
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2020, 11:33:44 am »
All good then. Nothing we can do about it either, as I see it.
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Re: What's going on here?
« Reply #8 on: May 04, 2020, 11:49:21 am »
It may be the internet archive machine at work, making a copy of the site for its own nefarious historical purposes.
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Re: What's going on here?
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2020, 11:56:28 am »
Question is, did the bots do their work before or after [banned user] wanted his stuff all deleted? If the latter, his enemies are much bigger now.
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Re: What's going on here?
« Reply #10 on: May 04, 2020, 11:58:45 am »
LOL! Hardly.
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Offline Dav

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Re: What's going on here?
« Reply #11 on: May 04, 2020, 01:03:52 pm »
When I was helping to admin qbnews forum we would get periods of really big guest activity.  It happens when a new search engine is indexing the site, or an old one is updating their info on us.  On my personal forum years ago I coded a php function to show when a search engine  was crawling the forum by getting its user agent string - and also by ip address (because sometimes the user agent is a lie...).  Getting crawled is a good thing as it will bring in more users eventually because the site is known more.

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FellippeHeitor

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Re: What's going on here?
« Reply #12 on: May 04, 2020, 05:30:49 pm »
Could be archive.org taking a snapshot as well.
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Re: What's going on here?
« Reply #13 on: May 04, 2020, 09:59:40 pm »
Quote from: STxAxTIC on May 04, 2020, 11:56:28 am
Question is, did the bots do their work before or after [banned user] wanted his stuff all deleted? If the latter, his enemies are much bigger now.

WAIT!! WHAT??  CH wanted what?!!!
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Re: What's going on here?
« Reply #14 on: May 04, 2020, 11:19:08 pm »
So [banned user]'s stuff got erased, so everyone who posted to those threads he started got erased, so whoever starts a thread owns it?
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