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	Tue, Apr. 2nd, 2013 10:17 am

Spammers and Invite Codes

Greetings Journalers,

I apologize for the lack of updates about what's going on. We've been very busy working on other projects and with real life. That said, yes, we're requiring all new accounts to be created using Invite codes. Why? Because we're experiencing a massive amount of spam and it's causing a lot of problems on the server, specifically the database system. Any Permanent, Early Adopters, and Special Early Donator Accounts and Paid Accounts should have the ability to generate invite codes. I would like to extend the opportunity for everyone else to get invite codes without paying a single cent. Anyone who can report spam blogs to me (a comment on this entry will suffice) will get an invite code PER spam blog. A minimum of 10 spam blogs must be reported to get your invite code(s). I can then manually generate codes for you. If you'd rather pay, we have Permanent and Paid Accounts for sale. Permanent Accounts can be purchased for a one time $100 fee - payment can be sent to payments@scribbld.com (remember to include your username).

As mentioned we're not really actively developing Scribbld.com -- however there are some outstanding features and bugs we'd like to finish up and close in the near future.

We hope everyone is doing well and happy Spring!

jimmy &

morgan

Update: I've run out of codes, and it looks like they decided to remove the code/module which allows me to manually generate as many codes as I want from the codebase :( Boooo!! I'll try to come up with someone to fix this, in the meantime if you're feeling generous you can still let me know spam journals and I can get them removed from our site.

Current Mood:

busy

happier

i wrote the words to the swansong

	Thu, Apr. 4th, 2013 07:05 pm (UTC)

thank you for the update!

wolf

Wolf.

	Sun, Apr. 7th, 2013 04:37 am (UTC)

As a note of interest, the CAPTCHAs for account creation aren't working.

goose
the girl who cried wolf.

	Fri, Apr. 12th, 2013 05:54 pm (UTC)

Thanks for the update, and sorry to hear about the influx of spam.

Here are a bunch of spam accounts I've noticed, I'll let you know if/when I come across any more:

pocket4year
floattt
dorothyjclarkas
bush52regret
wireguilty9
fog19cut
crusherkingdom
nail60church
sense42bail
desireemhailey
terrelegg
foodbush28

jimmy

	Sat, Apr. 13th, 2013 11:02 am (UTC)

Hey,

Thanks for the list of spammers. I've sent a message to your Inbox with some invite codes:

http://www.scribbld.com/inbox/

Thanks!

(no subject) -

goose

jessica

Jessica

	Tue, Apr. 16th, 2013 01:46 am (UTC)

matthewdavis917
air18garden
andiandiii
waxstool9
brickhole02
faucet3willow
mondaytaste8
bottompig22
newslake
tauruscanvas11
cafebacon39
net09galley
mask8banjo
focusupply
slauliu
piano4lan
queen75bumper
anastasiea
unit9george
lisa36string
lutestew9
brake97hope
richardbwalter
clerk8prison
brace7olive
jeans97grip
cheapjerseys
washer38white

just gratitude for way back in the day when you let me have some really awesome journal names for free :) thanks for sticking around!

jimmy

	Tue, Apr. 16th, 2013 11:34 am (UTC)

Hey! I haven't seen someone with such a low user ID in forever!! Invite codes sent!! Thank you so much!

paboi
paboi

	Tue, Apr. 16th, 2013 07:00 am (UTC)

Hey, I'm sorry to bother you, but I just bought a paid account in order to generate an invite code for a friend, and my userinfo still says I'm an early free member, and when I try to generate an invite code, I get the message that says I'm not eligible to create any codes. :c What gives? I can provide a transaction ID number if necessary.

goose
the girl who cried wolf.

	Tue, Apr. 16th, 2013 03:24 pm (UTC)

A bunch more:

age10kiss
blood53beast
bubble5pie
vesseljelly04
burma7use
idea6carbon
tank95ocelot
johncard0
change3pull
towntie00
cafebacon39
tinydeallike
tank95ocelot
snake0rose
velvetbar1
rickpetko9179
diabloiiiyeah

jimmy

	Wed, Apr. 17th, 2013 10:38 am (UTC)

Thanks! More codes sent your way via Inbox!

(no subject) -

goose

tamagotchis

Tamagotchis

	Sat, Apr. 20th, 2013 12:51 pm (UTC)

So I take it since you are allowing people to buy permanent accounts this means you have intentions to keep the site functional for the long-run? If so, thats a major relief :) I still use both of my journals on a regular basis.

jimmy

	Sun, Apr. 21st, 2013 01:13 pm (UTC)

It'll certainly be in the same state it's in right now for an indefinite amount of time, forever really. I just don't have the time or attention span to fix any of the outstanding issues. But it'll certainly be around for a long long long long time. :)

goose
the girl who cried wolf.

	Tue, Apr. 23rd, 2013 10:11 pm (UTC)

Question! Is there anything I can do to help with the site? I'm not the most technological person, I can do basic html, but I just wondered if there was any way I could help you guys out? I'd be happy to, I love this site!

A bunch more spam accounts:

canitbe
guildwars2key
weightlossloss
jiau
drinkwhite1
ant46sing
lidadaidaihua
mansuits
joe6354
sackmakeup05
yingfeng
celery81mark
modem5mint
deerliee
vtool001
lingzhi
namepalm5
chime22gun
artificialgrass
desertcream95

jimmy

	Thu, Apr. 25th, 2013 11:30 am (UTC)

Hey,

Thanks for more spam accounts and offering help. Every since I started Scribbld I've needed more then anything someone very familiar with Perl. It still stands today too. If you know anyone with some free time willing to lend a hand, I'd be very grateful!

joedunphy

Joseph Dunphy

	Fri, Apr. 26th, 2013 03:01 pm (UTC)

Oh, boy ... this won't be good

Jimmy. Is this wise or necessary?

Posterous, as you might know, will be shutting down on the 30th of this month, leaving millions of users to scramble for new places to locate their blogs. This isn't because the service was unpopular. In fact, it was one of the larger providers, but Twitter wanted to do an acquire, taking a shortcut in order to pick up maybe about eight employees.

This, normally, really annoys the users, but something special and unprecedented is happening this time, around. If one checks, at a time when millions of people need to move right now, blogging hosts are either breaking down or unavailable, having shut off registration, which means that these millions of people are going to lose years of work, in many cases, having nowhere to move their content.

Think about the words "millions of people, getting really, really angry" - have you ever lived in a major city? These are not good words to hear. This is usually the prelude to something really, really bad. I don't know what that something is, but look at the odds. If only one in a thousand people decides that he needs to lash out, that's thousands of people running amok. Chaos. Pure, horrible chaos, and you know some of those people will turn out to be hackers.

This sounds like a huge mess in the making. Scribbld would seem to have just painted a bullseye on itself. We can all hope for the best, of course, but how to put this gently? Have you ever noticed how few veteran Russian roulette players there are? I'm not saying that somebody is going to go postal over this, just that luck has a way of running out.

Did I mention the angry mob?

goose
the girl who cried wolf.

	Fri, May. 3rd, 2013 08:49 pm (UTC)

Re: Oh, boy ... this won't be good

Dude... This is kind of pessimistic. If people reeeeally want to sign up here, there *are* ways of getting invite codes. It's not as if Scribbld is locked away with a huge 'no entry' sign up... Spambots, however, cannot easily get invite codes. IMO, invite codes are a positive thing, and more-than-likely temporary.

zuleika

Zuleika

	Thu, May. 2nd, 2013 07:23 am (UTC)

SPAM accounts

us1getloan03
us1getloan02
us1getloan01
us1getloan00
us1getloan04
us1getloan29
us1getloan28
us1getloan05
bromni268

zuleika

Zuleika

	Thu, May. 2nd, 2013 07:31 am (UTC)

More Spam

us1getloan10
us1getloan09
us1getloan08
us1getloan07
us1getloan06

zuleika

Zuleika

	Thu, May. 2nd, 2013 08:15 am (UTC)

more spam, sorry

us1getloan29
us1getloan28
us1getloan27
us1getloan26
us1getloan25
bestseocompany
us1getloan24
us1getloan23
us1getloan22
us1getloan21
us1getloan20
us1getloan19
us1getloan18
us1getloan17
us1getloan16
us1getloan15
us1getloan14
us1getloan13
us1getloan12
us1getloan11

zuleika

Zuleika

	Fri, May. 3rd, 2013 03:40 am (UTC)

Spam accounts

products1best23
products1best24
products1best22
products1best21
products1best20
products1best16
products1best15
products1best18
products1best12
products1best11
spoonlead9
watch70hoe
mikesimona
alfredhone
samarchiba
dennyhayde
robinbarlo
henrycarey
kennethzac
samnorman
rogernora
timothymir
lqhai003
mensuits11

jimmy

	Fri, May. 3rd, 2013 11:20 am (UTC)

Re: Spam accounts

Hey!

Good finds! Thank you very much for reporting them! I've gone ahead and deleted all that were reported!

Thanks!

Re: Spam accounts -

zuleika

goose
the girl who cried wolf.

	Fri, May. 3rd, 2013 09:15 pm (UTC)

Moar spammers:

kissyou2
himanshu
vernondeir
bottledonald4
time9shoe
herechee
alvadylan
benternenc
base86shorts
pidandan
poppymoore
products1best1
products1best2
(and then it continues as 'products1best[number]' up until...)
products1best30
(except for the ones Zuleika pointed out above)

jimmy

	Wed, May. 8th, 2013 11:04 am (UTC)

Deleted, thanks!!

zuleika

Zuleika

	Tue, May. 7th, 2013 07:02 am (UTC)

More spam

careucar123
iola0901
petergwend
andrewwyth
terencekat
leocara
johnnysara
abrahammil
vincentbli
justinadri
richielest

jimmy

	Wed, May. 8th, 2013 11:05 am (UTC)

Re: More spam

Deleted!!! Thank you!!

ifearthemoon

I Fear The Moon

	Wed, May. 8th, 2013 02:10 pm (UTC)

Unrelated but help?

hello, my name is Kierstin and I am a big fan of this site and I've enjoyed using it for some time now. It's helped me out greatly with keeping my writing organized and accessible... until this morning. I've spent the better part of an hour looking how to email someone about two suspended accounts I have.

I am unsure as to why they are suspended. I use this site to help me in writing and it's difficult to do with a lot of my work gone. Is there anyway someone can email me @ jupiter_roxx@hotmail.com to figure this out. I can correct anything I may have done wrong, but I can't think why a journal and my community would get suspended.

Sorry this is off topic but I didn't know where else to go.

goose
the girl who cried wolf.

	Wed, May. 8th, 2013 02:44 pm (UTC)

Re: Unrelated but help?

Hi! Your accounts might have been accidentally deleted as spam?

All the same, this is where you need to go to report this kind of thing :)

Re: Unrelated but help? -

ifearthemoon

Re: Unrelated but help? -

goose

zuleika

Zuleika

	Thu, May. 9th, 2013 08:00 am (UTC)

Spam

joshuasetl
joshuahami
georgedave
georgebeac
robinsonno
anthonyhub
lancebasil
wesleychad
ignativsel
martinkay

jimmy

	Thu, May. 9th, 2013 11:31 am (UTC)

Re: Spam

Deleted, thank you!!

zuleika

Zuleika

	Fri, May. 10th, 2013 11:22 am (UTC)

Just 5 spammers this morning

nancyrrobertaws
chenxj
chicmoment
drdavidshealth
jimedwards

jimmy

	Fri, May. 10th, 2013 01:56 pm (UTC)

Re: Just 5 spammers this morning

Deleted!! :)

goose
the girl who cried wolf.

	Fri, May. 10th, 2013 08:26 pm (UTC)

Few moar spammers

entechplastic
products1best7
products1best25
products1best26
products1best27
products1best28
products1best29
buygw2gold
frednai
lewisbenjamin

jimmy

	Sat, May. 11th, 2013 12:12 pm (UTC)

Re: Few moar spammers

Deleted!!! Thanks for the finds!

goose
the girl who cried wolf.

	Sat, May. 11th, 2013 03:56 pm (UTC)

scriptgalore11
products1best3
products1best5
products1best8
products1best9
wonderfuldress
tomyedda
janazger
bushtom
casjewellery

jimmy

	Wed, May. 15th, 2013 10:29 am (UTC)

Deleted! Thanks!

zuleika

Zuleika

	Wed, May. 15th, 2013 05:27 am (UTC)

*Spam accounts

jacobjulie
paulgale
mikesarah
peterluthe
jefferysol
benenid
caryhobart
tommyaldri
samuelmurr
joewinifre
gavindale
joshuariva
ignativske/
jamesmavis
seanwill
carlbertra
rogerhedy
andyeric
sidneyoliv

jimmy

	Wed, May. 15th, 2013 10:29 am (UTC)

Re: *Spam accounts

Deleted, thank you!!!

zuleika

Zuleika

	Wed, May. 15th, 2013 07:19 am (UTC)

More spam

erichenry
glendonmig
paulbrian
vernonles
keithcleme
jimleonard
derekowen

jimmy

	Wed, May. 15th, 2013 10:29 am (UTC)

Re: More spam

Deleted, thank you!!!

zuleika

Zuleika

	Thu, May. 16th, 2013 08:13 am (UTC)

Scribbld

What is Scribbld policy concerning public display of journals and communities such as this one: http://www.scribbld.com/community/trololol/

I was just curious, thanks.

jimmy

	Sun, May. 19th, 2013 12:31 pm (UTC)

Re: Scribbld

It's allowed. Porn is porn... :( Even if it's gay porn...

zuleika

jimmy

zuleika

goose

zuleika

jimmy

goose

goose
the girl who cried wolf.

	Thu, May. 16th, 2013 03:13 pm (UTC)

ganjnatod
rainbrush78
billsandy
nelo
maryrrice
alwaysforex
glamourforex
robertlin
derekregan
hubertfields00
edgardana

jimmy

	Sun, May. 19th, 2013 12:30 pm (UTC)

Deleted!!! :)

laceup

est 19xx

	Sun, May. 19th, 2013 01:11 am (UTC)

Ummm, so I have a friend who wants to join Scribbld but can't because there are no codes? Or is there a way for current users like myself to generate a code to get someone in? If not.... that kinda sucks. :-/

laceup

est 19xx

	Sun, May. 19th, 2013 01:14 am (UTC)

OK... apparently I'm not allowed to generate a code, even though I've never generated a code at all. Awesome. So what are we supposed to do? I don't really think this is a good system if current non-spam users can't invite new non-spam users.

melodylynne

superpower

melodylynne

superpower