Oh we will reincarnate!

According to mishima666, OS ahs disabled new account creation on weekends in an attempt to slow down spam. He reported that it had no practical effect - the spammers ust create more accounts during the week and leave them until needed.

LL2 is right!

Come join us at our group--it's outlined in my post.
:)

and one to make the rate stick!

What Mark said. It's been Sign In Only on the weekends for a few months now.

If we don't find each other on Facebook or elsewhere: Best of luck always!! I've enjoyed your unique point of view. Cheers, amiga.

It does look serious now. I hope that most of us will be able to reassemble somewhere congenial but they aren't very high hopes.

Since I'm here so infrequently, I don't even know what's going on....

Good evening Dr. Or'ki Bowl.

This place is awash in meta lately ain't it! Somehow I think we
will all be just fine and come together again, somewhere.
Something DOES need to give, isn't it.

I'm with LL. Stay in touch - FB / yahoo / of wherever we reassemble. And OS may just keep plodding along too.

FYI, they close the site off to new members on the weekends. This was done to ward of the SPAMMERS. Obviously, it is not working. I often said it this is an inside job. A Blogger or more answered one those "work from home. All you need is a computer and Internet connection" ads, infiltrated this site and is making money by spamming; all the while complaining about the site being spammed.

@Trudge - God you're dumb! Per mishima666, our spamcop, the spammers just create that many more accounts during the week and use them as active ones get deleted.

Sorry to toss a wet blanket on the panic here but they've been doing this every Friday night for months now. The idea is to keep spambots from enrolling over the weekend. Of course, the spambots, being smarter than OS administrators (whoever they are - if they even exist anymore) simply enroll during the week and then display their wares without resistance over the weekend.

It's been that way for a while, a few months I think. Not particularly new.

Shoulda read the comments first, as this thread is awash in wet blankets. Oh, well, a little faux panic now and again never hurt us chickens much.

OMG.....it's been sweet.

this is all too much, I am going to work on getting my stff saved. This us ludicrous, they could easily have collected revenue from us.

Hell, maybe that is what they are planning!

maybe tomorrow we will find out that we have 3 to 6 months to pay.

I mean, isn't that the way it would happen? Cross your fingers!

MY FACEBOOK PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/#!/dlschuch

Well, as usual I'm a day late and a dollar short, trying to answer an open call. See y'all, it's been fun. I do see some people still trying to blog, though. I'm going to read as many blogs as I can. Like the song in the Monty Python musical, I'm not dead yet!

What Salon needs to combat Spam are moderators and a button to click to report spam. The mods can be volunteers.

If it all goes so be it. I can't seem to hold on to anything in life. That is the way it should be I think. It all has to move on and evolve. We have connections that are so valuable here and I love this place. Thank you for being who you are. An inspiration.

Well, I am not one to panic much. I didn't think they'd kept up with the no new spammers things since it obviously only increases on the weekend. I noticed this early today, didn't put the connection together. Still, I realize that things can go more quickly than we know. This place has changed me in many ways (for the good! I swear it!).

Tr ig, yeah, sorry about the meta, I thought we were all more or less posting "adiOS, tchotchkes" blogs, just in case. You know where to find us if you need.

I will be in my tidepool with the other mermaids, but I did join Orphans of OS group on FB. If folks like the meta, sagemerlin had an interesting, though quixotic, proposal to take it over ourselves. It's been proposed before, but he has details, and there are comments with lots of information on how that could be done. Because frankly, a lot of what's been posted is not terribly illuminating. Might as well indulge the fantasy that we an keep it going just like it is, minus the spam. We can hook up lots of places, but it's the combination of features that holds us here.

@ tr ig : Don't think I didn't see that "isn't it," ® ~ that's 20 c, thanks.

Kerry just contacted me, everyone just calm down, remember unicorns and rainbows!

ahhhhhh.....

@Association - Been there, done that. The Powers That Be (TM) have empowered at least 2 members to delete spam and spammers. To the best of my knowledge, only 1 is currently active. The problem is that spammers are automated, including automated ways to defeat CAPCHAs. Spam/spammer deletion is a manual process.

OB--I am so glad there will be a hereafter. I have joined OOS on FB, and I will certainly see you there.

I refuse on principle to join Facebook, so if OS goes, then the only connection I'll have to my creative and wonderful friends here will be with the few for whom I have an email address.

I hope OS won't disappear. There's nothing like it anywhere else.

The last time this was seriously an issue, Linda Seccaspina formed Orphans, for the social chit chat, and I formed Meta Salon, for posting our links to work here, there and topics of interest to writing/blogging. Both are good and active, and have been for some time. Definitely the go to place when OS is running slow, or crawling, or down, or whatnot. Glad to see so many new members!

I don't know that this ship is sinking. I am not sure that I care that much about the spammers, just wish they didn't clog things up so much, maybe they could get their own "page". However, if we are going to be shipwrecked together, do we want this to be Gilligan's Island, Robinson Crusoe, or the Blue Lagoon?

baby, with the egos put in play here, on os,
there is no question:
"maybe we'll reincarnate, maybe we'll translocate, maybe we'll just keep in touch with those here who we have come to like, hate, love and scoff at."

this aint a maybe thing.

ANYWAY. for those who care:
i am always
at
jim.emmerling@yahoo.com.

always.

Not allowing new accounts is an amateur approach to getting rid of spammers. How about making it impossible for them to set up accounts in the first place and dropping them when thy post live feeds? Too much to ask? Right now, OS is just as much a place to watch the Euro Cup as it is to read great poems. Blecch to that.

Oryoki: You must save us! Are you at Facebook? Are we friends? I am Ludmillia Jones. That name is from my "too paranoid to register with my real name" days.

Hey! HI! oops,still here!
don't you feel silly now?
i sure do.
it's like the death sentence has gotten...boring...somehow.

(guy in the Tower. when was that execution date again?
when i get my head cut off, hopefully by the first blow of the ax?
uh..hm..seems i have forgotten. oh well. yawn.)


i know some people who know some people. they might know
some people who could sneak in with
a shredder and
a zippo.
just sayin, gal.

ha. rev it up, you said on my blog.

I signed in today to show off my beautiful body...is that OK?

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