Woah... Sorry for the disruption fellas...

[Ryan]

Seems like someone from Korea thought it would be fun to create thousands of bots that made accounts on garagejournal.com and then posted spam (in Korean no less) all over the forum.

I've got most of it cleaned now, but you might see some more pop up today.

I'm on it... Just report what you see...

And sorry for the trouble.

 

[toolaholic]

Thanks! There's still one up! Itsmemarc752

 

[Jawn]

Thanks for this community and for your efforts in keeping it free of such interference!

 

[LS6 Tommy]

Thanks! There's still one up! Itsmemarc752

I just reported that one & it's gone already. Good work, Ryan!

Tommy

 

[Ryan]

I've actually never seen anything like this... They created over 25,000 accounts overnight. Gonna take some heavy lifting to clear them all, but we are getting close.

 

[east_tn_emc]

Your (and other admins') efforts to keep GJ boards online, clean, clear and enjoyable ARE noticed and appreciated.....please do not ever think they are not!

 

[Big Pete]

Quality work clearing that lot so fast. It's appreciated.

 

[Ryan]

no man thank you guys for being patient...

What this probably means is that we are gonna have to get off of Vbulletin soon and go to Xenforo like we have done on jalopyjournal.com. It's a **** ton of work and will initially piss plenty of you off, but once you get used to it, it is so much better than VB.

 

[Strouty]

That is crazy, there has to be a better way to require a new member to prove they are human.

 

[Craptain]

Thanks for the good work Ryan

 

[jayoldschool]

The other forums that I'm on that have gone to Xenforo look really good. The conversion was quick, and no data loss.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Thanks Ryan

 

[NorthNjWK]

I haven't seen any of the spam, THANK YOU!

 

[upgrading]

Good work cleaning up.
Can't you just ban all addys from Korea ?

 

[theoldwizard1]

Thanks for the clean up !

 

[creativecars]

Good job, thanks for the hard work on fixing that.

I guess it was not TAMPAs' doing, sorry about that.

 

[Kevin54]

Probably Kim Jong Un playing around on the computer and ended up here, seeing we are so popular, so he decided to bomb us.

 

[PugetDude]

Probably Kim Jong Un playing around on the computer and ended up here, seeing we are so popular, so he decided to bomb us.

Pajama Boy's haircut should be in the Thread of WTF....

 

[djjsr]

When I saw that this morning I thought the Korean guy was going for the 24 hr post count record.

 

[Strouty]

They're back!

 

[cactiki]

That is crazy, there has to be a better way to require a new member to prove they are human.

How life-ist! Robots have rights too!
(Not really)

 

[koditten]

Hope its not a "dry run" for something worse.

 

[richeyc2000]

Totally sorry I commented on one of the post earlier this morning. Wasn't thinking straight. Sorry again.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Sorry I wasn't around this morning to give you a hand but looks like you caught it all for now. If they hit again like that and you need help, just give a shout.




Are new members required to click a link in an email to activate their account ? It's been a long time since I joined and don't remember if I did or not.

 

[Big Bad Dad]

Ryan, da Man!

 

[The Cobbler]

Thanks to Ryan & Mods for keeping this site virtually problem free.Having been Moderator on a totally unrelated site for the last dozen years, I know it's pretty much a thankless job

 

[RivennHewn]

So, what did you do to piss Kim off?

Crack a short joke?

 

[tooljunkie4]

수소 폭탄

 

[larry4406]

Thanks Ryan.

I personally don't like the Hamb appearance. Avitar side panel takes up way too much space. I would hate that to occur here.

 

[christopher7390]

Props to you sir!

 

[Outlander]

I managed to miss it all. This proves you guys did a great job!

 

[joel63]

Thanks for your efforts.

 

[Cypherian]

Thanks to you and all the admins / mods for the work on wrangling this chicken here lol and the quick fix of spam bots

Cypher

 

[dodge610]

There was a boat load on gen tool disc. yesterday morning. But you had it cleaned up within the hour. Thanks Ryan i am on in the morning most mornings i will keep a watch out. You do a fantastic job.

 

[pablo94sc]

I guess this was the hydrogen bomb NK was talking about testing! Thanks for the good work, Ryan!

 

[TAMPAGT07]

수소 폭탄

Oh geez, 29 posts in and we get "Bang his wife" in Korean....

 

[2fat2fly]

Seems like someone from Korea thought it would be fun to create thousands of bots that made accounts on garagejournal.com and then posted spam (in Korean no less) all over the forum.

I've got most of it cleaned now, but you might see some more pop up today.

I'm on it... Just report what you see...

And sorry for the trouble.

Thanks for the hard work.

 

[wrench409]

I can't believe I missed the Spamnado.

 

[four.cycle]

I was clicking "report" on them as fast as I could, but my fingers started getting tired... and it was really late and I was tired.

Thanks for your efforts, Ryan.



(*nothing new for me... used to use IRC all the time - channel operator on a big channel - we saw that kind of stuff all the time. finally resorted to broad domain bans, i.e., *.* @*.kw - only way we could deal with it.)

 

[jayoldschool]

Some members need a reminder not to reply to spam.