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Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« on: July 10, 2011, 03:38:06 am »
Because sometimes we are a bit late onposting news articles on our front page, and because we try to expand our scope towards new subjects, we thought that it would be a great idea to automate the process of posting news. As a result, tonight we have installed a new forum feature: PostBots. Basically, they are bots that crawls the entire web for news content that is relevant to our website.

However, we discovered that this new software was shareware after installing it. As a result, it caused the bot to advertise Las Vegas Florist websites directly on our front page news. As a result, we have been forced to remove the mod immediately, although some of our users seemed to be interested in the new content and potential site expansion. In the future we will see if we change our mind and put it back on.
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Re: Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2011, 03:43:31 am »
Actually I want to read more about these Las Vegas florists. It would be awesome if we could have news like that, instead of this calculator stuff.
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Re: Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2011, 03:52:01 am »
Quote from: leafiness0 on July 10, 2011, 03:43:31 am
Actually I want to read more about these Las Vegas florists. It would be awesome if we could have news like that, instead of this calculator stuff.
Lol :P
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Re: Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2011, 06:45:57 am »
Brown text means fake news, right? I was about to say, I hated it when shareware deceptively waits until you've already installed it before announcing itself as such, and posting irrelevant advertisements in news is just plain evil. :D
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Re: Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2011, 06:52:38 am »
Quote from: TravisE on July 10, 2011, 06:45:57 am
Brown text means fake news, right? I was about to say, I hated it when shareware deceptively waits until you've already installed it before announcing itself as such, and posting irrelevant advertisements in news is just plain evil. :D
Lol yes, brown means fake :P
It was from a real incident though just minutes before x.x We fixed the issue that allowed the bot to post in the news section though so this shouldn't happen again.
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Re: Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2011, 08:37:22 am »
Quote from: leafiness0 on July 10, 2011, 03:43:31 am
Actually I want to read more about these Las Vegas florists. It would be awesome if we could have news like that, instead of this calculator stuff.

Indeed, I'm quite bored with calculator stuff, it's cool, but Las Vegas Florists totally beat Calculator Stuff, 10-0.
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Re: Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2011, 09:33:32 am »
Is it sad that I just amused my self by reading through various spambots' topics in the Trash Bin?
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Re: Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2011, 10:10:48 am »
Quote from: ztrumpet on July 10, 2011, 09:33:32 am
Is it sad that I just amused my self by reading through various spambots' topics in the Trash Bin?

It's totally normal.
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Re: Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2011, 02:46:00 pm »
I wouldn't mind tutorials on floral assembly, though.  :P
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Re: Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2011, 04:11:09 pm »
Quote from: ralphdspam on July 10, 2011, 02:46:00 pm
I wouldn't mind tutorials on floral assembly, though.  :P

Hmm, we seem to be lacking those...
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Re: Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2011, 04:12:48 pm »
Yeah, I should create a new subforum on flowers.
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Re: Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2011, 04:17:02 pm »
Seriously though, how did that spambot post in News?
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Re: Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2011, 04:26:16 pm »
Quote from: Deep Thought on July 10, 2011, 04:17:02 pm
Seriously though, how did that spambot post in News?
Some permissions we forgot to change when we added in user posting levels. Anybody could post in the news but it's been fixed.
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Re: Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2011, 04:53:44 pm »
Quote from: Eeems on July 10, 2011, 04:26:16 pm
Quote from: Deep Thought on July 10, 2011, 04:17:02 pm
Seriously though, how did that spambot post in News?
Some permissions we forgot to change when we added in user posting levels. Anybody could post in the news but it's been fixed.
That was probably when DJ_O added the ARS group.
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Re: Testing new bot-automated front page news article system
« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2011, 05:27:09 pm »
Quote from: Juju on July 10, 2011, 04:53:44 pm
Quote from: Eeems on July 10, 2011, 04:26:16 pm
Quote from: Deep Thought on July 10, 2011, 04:17:02 pm
Seriously though, how did that spambot post in News?
Some permissions we forgot to change when we added in user posting levels. Anybody could post in the news but it's been fixed.
That was probably when DJ_O added the ARS group.
No not the ARS, it was specifically the user ranks ( based on how many posts you have ). They all had permission to post in the News board.
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