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As you know, the forum has been fighting spammers and bots for years. We have seen our fair share of "Custom Kitchens UK", scammy Internet hosting companies, and bots trying to send us to a business's homepage. But after fighting the tidal wave of spam for so many years, the admins had a persistent thought: what if the spammers are right? Not in terms of posting nonsense links and trying to scam our users, but in trying to make money through our unique platform?

Well, thanks to the helpful counsel of Taunt, we have finally decided to move the forum in a new direction. Please see his important post on the matter in this topic

Let's see if we can recreate...

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ATTENTION all users!
this saturday night at 8, whoever wants to beat the record at the most users online.
Now listen up (ok READ up :D ), we would need over 32 users. so the target is 33, think we can do that?


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I Dunno...wouldn't rigging that number kind of take away its purpose?


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Quote from: action9000,Sep 21 2009 on  11:35 PM
I Dunno...wouldn't rigging that number kind of take away its purpose?
has stuff like this ever been planned before?


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we've never actually tried to break the mark.. we just notice when we have a lot of people on.
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you're right
i get all these dumbass ideas, this won't work


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Ah. Don't worry. It's hard to get something like that done :) Don't feel bad about the idea!


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Quote from: Mumbling,Sep 22 2009 on  12:01 AM
Ah. Don't worry. It's hard to get something like that done :) Don't feel bad about the idea!
You're right!
 I shouldn't talk shit about me! I'm awesome! And so are all you guys!


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it would take a lot of members, and guests on at the same time.. so while it is not a stupid idea, with real life demands on the time of many here, myself included, thequestion is, whethger wecwill have the free time to do this..
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Quote from: Nick22,Sep 22 2009 on  12:05 AM
it would take a lot of members, and guests on at the same time.. so while it is not a stupid idea, with real life demands on the time of many here, myself included, thequestion is, whethger wecwill have the free time to do this..
you're right, it would take some time


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Quote from: Mumbling,Sep 22 2009 on  12:21 AM
Jup, so we just gotta wait and be online a lot! :D
you mean, jup jup jup!


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rihgt now im the only one here
its creepy  :)
no other members
no gusets
no anoynomys members..