Bob Schroeck Wrote:Oh, and I'm assuming the current crop of spammers are coming from a wide variety of IPs, so that's why we're not just locking that address out.
And while I'm at it, Geth, did you mean to block the New User Message bot/script?
In my defense, I was half asleep and saw spam and that's like waving red in front of a bull for me (I H8 spam with the fury of a million burning suns), so once we can edit again (I checked, database is read only even for me, so John must be doing maintenance), so I'll unblock it once that's over.
As for the database being read only, good idea why that's happening, and it's for our benefit: One, John is currently CU'ing all the spammers IP so he can range block them (not just ATT has been blitzed by these idiots, as they seem to have made it past our current abuse filters), and the read only database bit will prevent more spam from being created until he deals with these idiots, and he's also been working on getting HHVM to start on it's own server (to prevent crapouts when run on servers with other processes), and I assume he's testing that with the database in read only mode for bugtesting reasons.
Anyway, I'll see if I can't get some more info on this, should be over soon hopefully.
Edit: Our log in server is screwed up, will update when that is fixed.