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Hi All -
When I am logged out and still on the Community Home page, I see more site activity then when I am logged in. And the activity I am seeing is many, many very odd names joining the Photography Community. They look like all spam names. Out of curiousity, why are they joining? Can they then in turn somehow get our email addresses to send us spam or worse? Did this always take place even with the old site & we just couldn
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Originally Posted by ddt0725
I was wondering the same thing this morning.....it seems odd. It doesn't seem like they'd be able to get much information here.
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Originally Posted by ddt0725
[:)] +1..........Granted, I've yet to post a picture of a kayak.............so you never know.............[:)]
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Originally Posted by Kayaker72
On the other hand, I have posted pictures of brains - including a picture of my own brain! [8-|]
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Originally Posted by neuroanatomist
Perhaps a good idea for a new thread. Post your brain. [:P] I have some MR-images of my head. There should be a brain there somewhere. [I]
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Originally Posted by neuroanatomist
You would have required the 180mm macro for that wouldn't you? I didn't realise you had that lens in your kit. [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
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Originally Posted by btaylor
LOL....I was going to make a similar crack earlier. I was a bit too late on it, though. :-)
180mm Macro? Meh. But, I think you guys are finally getting close to the real reason I got the MP-E 65mm. [;)]
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Originally Posted by neuroanatomist
Let's hopeyou arethe exception rather than the rule.....otherwise we are about to be bombarded by photos of acne, diabetes, oil and a lot of other stuff.....[:P]
Photographer humor aside[:D], anyone really understand what is going on?
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Originally Posted by Kayaker72
I am sure this site gets its share of bots and spammers. I would imagine that the ratio to people that use the site compared to the ones who actualy use the forum is very high. Some reasons people would join and not ever post:
Someone using this site that searchs the forum to gain insight might want to look at a paticular posters Bio to see if the poster has credibility or not, for instance if we couldn't look at Neuro's biowe might not know he actulay has an MP-E 65mm that he can take 5x pictures of brains with. You have to join to view Bio's
Someone might join thinking they might get email or twitter updates.
Someone might join and never post, just because they find this a very resourcefull site.
I don't think any of it is any more malicious than any other site on the net.
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Originally Posted by HDNitehawk
I agree with you on this part.However when you look back further in time in the what's going on section you'll notice that these strange accounts are only joining since short. Monday or so..
So it could be advisable for the forum admins to keep an eye out incase the increase of malicious accounts speedens up.