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Old 10-15-22, 05:05 AM
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EMERGENCY, General Cycling Completely Overrun

General Cycling currently overrun by spambots advertising prostitution. Many many threads started, several pages worth.
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Old 10-15-22, 05:12 AM
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
General Cycling currently overrun by spambots advertising prostitution. Many many threads started, several pages worth.
Yeah it's crazy. How is that even possible? I thought there are safeguards in place with respect to new accounts to prevent that sort of thing. Maybe they somehow hijacked an existing account. I didn't click on any of the posts. I'm sure the mods will clean it up asap.
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Originally Posted by joe4702
Yeah it's crazy. How is that even possible? I thought there are safeguards in place with respect to new accounts to prevent that sort of thing. Maybe they somehow hijacked an existing account. I didn't click on any of the posts. I'm sure the mods will clean it up asap.
Wow, they cleaned it up already! Definitely the biggest bot attack I've seen on this site.

I salute the mods, that was amazingly fast!
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Hey, mods, wild applause, that was page after page of thread titles cleared up in a few minutes! Thank you! Most users probably won't ever know what happened, but I'm sure they would be as grateful to you if they did. Please close the thread with our thanks.
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