• Welcome to The Cave of Dragonflies forums, where the smallest bugs live alongside the strongest dragons.

    Guests are not able to post messages or even read certain areas of the forums. Now, that's boring, don't you think? Registration, on the other hand, is simple, completely free of charge, and does not require you to give out any personal information at all. As soon as you register, you can take part in some of the happy fun things at the forums such as posting messages, voting in polls, sending private messages to people and being told that this is where we drink tea and eat cod.

    Of course I'm not forcing you to do anything if you don't want to, but seriously, what have you got to lose? Five seconds of your life?

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So, a few hours ago a whole bunch of people started registering (600 of them, to be precise). You may have noticed. These registrations were quite obviously accomplished with a script. Unfortunately I don't have access to any of the useful Admin CP options, so I couldn't disable registration or anything like that.

A few minutes ago, they actually started validating (ie. clicking that link in the rules) and posting. After two of them posted, I figured it was better to act now than wait for a flood of spam.

Thus, posting privileges for members are currently revoked. Sorry about that, it was the only solution I could come up with. It should only last until Butterfree gets back and figures out a way to mass delete/ban all the accounts (Ruby quite aptly compared the vBulletin control panels to this painting by Escher.).

Apologies for the inconvenience, etc.
 
Hahahah I can still post.

This makes me amused.

But on behalf of the members:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
You can't disable registration? Hm, pity. I suppose we could offer to just go through and ban them all, but with 600 of them (shit I didn't realize there were that many)... yeah that would sort of suck.

so hurry up and come back, Butterfree. k? k.

(hey look I can post hello stupid random assortment of modpowers)

EDIT: uh, okay, or possibly you didn't do it right, opal?...
 
I would have liked to see the flood of spam, but that's just me :B
where is Butterfree half the time anyway
 
The most recent post in the Introductions forum is one such spam post, but honestly it isn't shocking or hilarious or anything worth looking at. Butterfree is here and sorting it out now anyway, and as Dezzuu said it really isn't the end of the world if you can't post for a few more minutes.

Which makes me wonder what sort of attempted spam attack this was... I was sort of expecting Viagra sales and HOT PUSSY BABES LOL, but apparently not. Hm.

(anyway I can too still post outside of this forum unless that actually was "opal did it wrong")
 
I SUDDENLY FEEL PISSED OFF
because i had this big wall of text i was about to post, then when i clicked send reply a message came up saying i'm not authorised to post
remember, big, wall, of text
 
No, you're not a member.

>:( WE THREW YOU OUT OF SOCIETY
But yeah you've got a different usergroup so.
 
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