Getting slammed by bot traffic

@Makalakalane

not sure how it works here but you need 3 upvotes at triplea to. I boosted you one so you’re at two now : ) maybe @djensen can clarify ?

@djensen
We additionally have the “Home-button” 0_1542475153872_home.PNG that brings us to www.axisandallies.org - what is fine, IMHO.

Now those two buttons (Logo and Categories-View) actually lead to the forum home:

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The Logo-Button is configurable in the settings. So when experimenting with the setting in …

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… I did not find anything better than your pre-setting (=forum home) as default.

Maybe it should be just pointed out that every user can individually set his preferred page there (for example a special category):
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Most serious spammers use IP rotators and are impossible to ban. Each and every spam attempt will appear to come from a different IP address. They have been at it for a long time and are intent on advertizing for free.

Man. I still have 2 years of A&A.ORG support to catch up on, bare with me dudes, I’m renovating my game room…… but I’ll get there.

Hello ,

I like A&A series and finally  find this great forum,

however , every post I submitted is “flagged as swam” and I don’t know what I done wrong ….

the first post is here:
forums/index.php?topic=18230.0

after I reply that topic , My Account is banned and I need to register an other one …

the second/3rd post is :
forums/index.php?topic=14342.0
forums/index.php?topic=23631.0

my reply on both were deleted by system automatically …

after that , I’ve tried to seek a help by reply other topic or send personal message to forum administrator, but all failed …

@frimmel:

@djensen:

It looks like Yahoo! was hammering the site. There’s not much I can do about it.  :-(

Why would Yahoo! have been “hammering” the site?  :?

Like all good stories, this one involves, beer, hookers, and cannot be discussed without SCI clearance.

Good day to you, sir.

I said, “Good day”.

Yea, but honestly, to play games, I’d have to give up posting here and playing Axis and Allies.  Would you really wish that on me and the world? :P

Turn 1

Buy 2 transports and 3 Infantry Take E. China with all available fighters and Infantry except one infantry in Manchuria and one in Burma Attack Pearl Harbour with All Avaliable Naval Unit (except Transports) and 2 Fighters and Bomber Load Guys in French Indo China Burma

Turn 2

Buy 1 Transport and Infantry Attack Manchuria, Soviet Far East, Sin Kiang, and India (Bring in Fleet to attack Manchuria/Soviet Far East

Rest of the Game
countinue moving west so that you get to the border of Moscow by Turn 4. By this time you should take some transports take Hawaii, New Zealand and Austrailia. You should begin moving guys into the middle east and then later Africa.