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The Great Auswine Forum Name Guessing Game

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:35 am
by Gavin Trott
Here's hopefully a bit of fun for those of you having a slow day! (I guess I must be!)

As you probably know we have many many fake registrations on the auswine forum, some by spammers, many by 'bots', small pieces of software written specifically for that purpose, to register on forums like ours.

I get dozens every day, some days, particularly Monday after a weekend, perhaps a hundred or more! My job is to go through and sort out the genuine people joining, from those not! I then delete the fakes, otherwise the whole forum would get cluttered up by hundreds/thousands of phoney registrations!

Its great fun! Indeed, its so much fun you can join in!

Below is a list of today's 'joiners'.

Included in this list somewhere are 7 genuine forum members, people who have joined, posted and been part of us.

Your task, should you choose to accept is, is to pick the 7 genuine names from the fakes! Which 7 would you leave? (remembering that you are deleting all the others, and if you delete a genuine name, people tend to get a little annoyed!)

Go on, have a go! No huge prize pool, but perhaps the winner can do my forum admin job for a month!! :lol: (yes, I did make one of them easy to spot!)

By the way, the yes no after the name indicates whether they have, as yet, 'activated' their account ready for posting

Peterli Yes
StWhite Yes
alexd74 yes
c6109 yes
Jaishinvalawl Yes
vinx yes
dijyhom Yes
BuiseSuizquisee No
rupopiff No
Ractuapanty No
CheapestVIAGRACialisLevit Yes
Surpocartoodo Yes
Lip Plumper No
microm No
TORB yes
vurlcheerve No
beitoeheheshy No
Ethegealalley No
FreeOEMcheapestPHOTOSHOP Yes
blaplenna Yes
hyiphyip No
offisyLom No
saoabdqihb No
bvviaazgrz No
saschacall Yes
Upliptnoink No
ahyxzrzumh No
ywuriinqjf No
metaTymnlem No
CERABESHATHas Yes
CreemDype Yes
Greenmanzz Yes
EsoseUnsese No
Joyncphency No
abattydop No
heawlzeld No
evindLife No
arroniero Yes
briergism No
Bokjouddini No
NeequeAdesk No
Pizzler Yes
maxperlov No
TupvomGutoutt Yes
WexBifyeffopy No
155alefLikekeene No
Sontience No
Aceituna yes
mr.VideoPorn Yes
viippmusic No
La-Nastio No
JosephFO No
Infofognofmig Yes
pebybucky Yes
Jurgenszi Yes
ssraletov Yes
artilleria No
cerneNeuchbon No
WrogsEffokBor No
Biatenlalvlmnt Yes
bodybuildingpro Yes
Swee yes
Safsmill No
Immetworm No
Mayogefaife Yes
ReiltLesblilm No
lhgeeurpkr No

Re: The Great Auswine Forum Name Guessing Game

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:09 am
by GraemeG
OK, I've bolded my guesses at the legit posters / applicants:

Gavin Trott wrote:Peterli Yes
StWhite Yes
alexd74 yes
c6109 yes
Jaishinvalawl Yes
vinx yes
dijyhom Yes
BuiseSuizquisee No
rupopiff No
Ractuapanty No
CheapestVIAGRACialisLevit Yes
Surpocartoodo Yes
Lip Plumper No
microm No
TORB yes
vurlcheerve No
beitoeheheshy No
Ethegealalley No
FreeOEMcheapestPHOTOSHOP Yes
blaplenna Yes
hyiphyip No
offisyLom No
saoabdqihb No
bvviaazgrz No
saschacall Yes
Upliptnoink No
ahyxzrzumh No
ywuriinqjf No
metaTymnlem No
CERABESHATHas Yes
CreemDype Yes
Greenmanzz Yes
EsoseUnsese No
Joyncphency No
abattydop No
heawlzeld No
evindLife No
arroniero Yes
briergism No
Bokjouddini No
NeequeAdesk No
Pizzler Yes
maxperlov No
TupvomGutoutt Yes
WexBifyeffopy No
155alefLikekeene No
Sontience No
Aceituna yes
mr.VideoPorn Yes
viippmusic No
La-Nastio No
JosephFO No
Infofognofmig Yes
pebybucky Yes
Jurgenszi Yes
ssraletov Yes
artilleria No
cerneNeuchbon No
WrogsEffokBor No
Biatenlalvlmnt Yes
bodybuildingpro Yes
Swee yes
Safsmill No
Immetworm No
Mayogefaife Yes
ReiltLesblilm No
lhgeeurpkr No


Hard luck ( :wink: ) if your name really is V-iagra!
cheers,
Graeme

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:28 am
by Craig(NZ)
is this one serge?

mr.VideoPorn Yes

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:39 am
by Gavin Trott
Craig(NZ) wrote:is this one serge?

mr.VideoPorn Yes


Serge who?

:roll:

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 12:42 pm
by GraemeG
Craig(NZ) wrote:is this one serge?

mr.VideoPorn Yes


I imagine that three-quarters of them are Serge...
Graeme

Re: The Great Auswine Forum Name Guessing Game

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:35 pm
by Alex F
I guess I will follow in the tradition of GraemeG and bold my selection of 7.

Gavin Trott wrote:Peterli Yes
StWhite Yes
alexd74 yes
c6109 yes
Jaishinvalawl Yes
vinx yes
dijyhom Yes
BuiseSuizquisee No
rupopiff No
Ractuapanty No
CheapestVIAGRACialisLevit Yes
Surpocartoodo Yes
Lip Plumper No
microm No
TORB yes
vurlcheerve No
beitoeheheshy No
Ethegealalley No
FreeOEMcheapestPHOTOSHOP Yes
blaplenna Yes
hyiphyip No
offisyLom No
saoabdqihb No
bvviaazgrz No
saschacall Yes
Upliptnoink No
ahyxzrzumh No
ywuriinqjf No
metaTymnlem No
CERABESHATHas Yes
CreemDype Yes
Greenmanzz Yes
EsoseUnsese No
Joyncphency No
abattydop No
heawlzeld No
evindLife No
arroniero Yes
briergism No
Bokjouddini No
NeequeAdesk No
Pizzler Yes
maxperlov No
TupvomGutoutt Yes
WexBifyeffopy No
155alefLikekeene No
Sontience No
Aceituna yes
mr.VideoPorn Yes
viippmusic No
La-Nastio No
JosephFO No
Infofognofmig Yes
pebybucky Yes
Jurgenszi Yes
ssraletov Yes
artilleria No
cerneNeuchbon No
WrogsEffokBor No
Biatenlalvlmnt Yes
bodybuildingpro Yes
Swee yes
Safsmill No
Immetworm No
Mayogefaife Yes
ReiltLesblilm No
lhgeeurpkr No

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:57 am
by Ian S
Time to go for a real full name policy?

State it in the sign-up material and anything that isn't a full name gets deleted. FWIW I'd be happy to post under full name - I do elsewhere.

regards

Ian

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:55 pm
by Red Bigot
Gavin, now I know why you delete so many "real" people at times, you don't mention checking whether there are any posts or not for the users.

Since I or you delete spam posts pretty quickly most times, anyone with posts left on the forums stands a chance of being genuine and shouldn't be deleted simply by examining the name. I don't have access to that part of the admin stuff (I know your offer of that as the prize wasn't serious), but the general list of new users does show if there are any posts.

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:42 pm
by TORB
That name TORB looks very suss. I personally would have nuked that name. :lol:

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:15 am
by Gavin Trott
TORB wrote:That name TORB looks very suss. I personally would have nuked that name. :lol:


Thought you may notice that one!

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:56 am
by Gavin Trott
Fun's over, back to reality, Monday morning and another 160 or so to delete, by hand.

To the contest, for anyone interested, the real names were

TORB (well, he says he's real anyway)
Pizzler
vinx
Aceituna
Swee
alexd74
c6109

That was it.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:26 am
by winetastic
On the topic of spiced ham, an anti-spam measure I have seen taken on another (non-wine related) forum is to only allow users to start a new thread once their post count is above 5.

Its not a silver bullet but I think the approach is somewhat effective.

They also provide a special "garbage" section where new users are able to post in order to get their count up to the limit without creating low content posts in the primary forums.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:49 pm
by GraemeG
Oops. Four out of seven. There go half the users...
cheers,
Graeme

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:18 pm
by Gavin Trott
GraemeG wrote:Oops. Four out of seven. There go half the users...
cheers,
Graeme


I do it all the time unfortunately.

So hard to tell given some folk's choice of user names.

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:39 am
by vinx
vinx name look very suss to me too! :lol:

hopefully i can contribute more to this forum as time goes by...

cheers
david

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:04 pm
by davidg
Gee... and I was sure CheapestVIAGRACialisLevit was a real one :lol:

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 7:39 am
by plummy
I just had a go at it and only got 4 out of 7. And, I was sure Lip Plumper was a cert!
It's not an easy job. I hope you have more info than just the username.
plummy

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 11:37 am
by Gavin Trott
plummy wrote:I just had a go at it and only got 4 out of 7. And, I was sure Lip Plumper was a cert!
It's not an easy job. I hope you have more info than just the username.
plummy


Nope

User name and whether they have 'activated' or not.

I can also check if they have posted yet or not, so those who are serious, and post immediately, even with a Who Am I helps greatly.

but whichever way you try it, its a pain!