Hoonsy
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Vague ominous title
Misleading and vague sentence about a guy's living address
Seriously, what's with these posts lately? Feels like MR2 Australia is turning into some sort of serial killer's scribble pad
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Re: Vague ominous title
2016/06/20 16:44:40
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Dunno what the purpose of it is, some twonk is finding it entertaining. It must be some bot doing automated logins, there's been a few more that have been deleted.
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Re: Vague ominous title
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Dudeman
Dunno what the purpose of it is, some twonk is finding it entertaining. It must be some bot doing automated logins, there's been a few more that have been deleted.
I did see this article going around - http://jalopnik.com/45-million-accounts-hacked-at-some-of-the-biggest-car-f-1782030203. But I doubt it's affected us, the worst I've seen is this nugget-head going around making stupid posts. Still, it's something to be mindful of I think
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Re: Vague ominous title
2016/12/19 09:27:58
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No hacks here guys. All good.
These weird post are real people, as bots cannot log in due to Capthca.
Dudeman and I have implemented some changes today that should help to reduce these even further.
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Re: Vague ominous title
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Re: Vague ominous title
2016/12/19 17:23:11
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No hacks here guys. All good.
These weird post are real people, as bots cannot log in due to Capthca.
Dudeman and I have implemented some changes today that should help to reduce these even further What kind of captcha is it (I haven't needed to re-register, so haven't seen it). Is is possible that new bots are able to inconsistently defeat the Capthca?
 Go soothingly on the grease mud as there lurks a skid demon.
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I'm not sure what type it is though it is configurable. I suppose it is possible for bots to get past it though ocr is pretty hard when the image is dodgy.
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I only ask as I recall reading a paper / description of how someone wrote a bot to defeat a captcha and flood an online American Bible belt "Anti-Gay" or "Anti-Abortion" petitions with comments and signatures from their opponents.
I was curious as to how far bots had come since then, since some of the captcha's getting more advanced (e.g. ASIC Company search - although they are a higher value website).
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I checked the settings, and they were very basic. I have set them so they will be more difficult for bots. I can make it harder than this though I don't want to make it too hard for humans. 
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Seems like these posts are starting to happen a bit more frequent again of late, is it possible its someone making these posts and not bots?
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Maybe they are from the Nissan forum.... just trying to annoy us.
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Between fixing their cars they don't have spare time for that lol
No Nissan's are ok, just ribbing.
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haha 
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Datsun = Good, Nissan = not as cool.
We're going to click the ratchet up another notch to try and dissuade borat from coming back again.
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