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The Forums are back online!

September 13, 2011 at 12:55 PM

You'll be pleased to know the our Forums are now back online.

There is a new and easy way to report spam bots to us. Simply click the new "Report Spam Bot" (monitor_error.png) icon above one of the bots post and our Moderators will be immediately notified. The regular "Thumbs Down" (thumb_down.png) icon should still be used for reporting normal users posts.

We've reviewed nearly 4,000 of the most recent posts and have cleaned them from the spam bot infestation. However, some of them may have escaped our noticed, so use the new Report Spam Bot icon to let us know about it.

Additionally, unactivated users will no longer be able to post on the Forums (a majority of the spam bots were unactivated accounts). More new security measures will be put in place to make sure that this never happens again.

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I told you it wasn't me!

Comments: 43

Meteoroid • 13 Sep 2011, 12:56 PM

Hooray for the Forums being back. Thank you Ian. 😊 And that new report feature should be pretty helpful.

peppermintcowboy • 13 Sep 2011, 12:59 PM

Since I rarely use the forums, I look forward to a blog update about something else... 😋

nanami • 13 Sep 2011, 1:03 PM

ready at last 😃

joy • 13 Sep 2011, 1:08 PM

Glad to see the forums up and running again! Thanks for all the hard work you do. Hopefully the new feature will scare away those bots. 😋

elluwah • 13 Sep 2011, 1:08 PM

Glad to see the Forums back! And I approve of the new additions, very useful indeed. 😊

maineen • 13 Sep 2011, 1:10 PM

http://eggcave.com/forums/topic/6384 -------gobbler egg uft

cubexline • 13 Sep 2011, 1:18 PM

Yay for forums 😊

peppermintcowboy • 13 Sep 2011, 1:24 PM

I need Fairy World travels! Can trade: Goldentree Meadows, Big Easter Egg, Moontops, Volcano, Eastern Jungles, Egg Patch, and Treetops! 😊

plantparadise • 13 Sep 2011, 1:43 PM

😃 Yay! No more crazy bots!

mich • 13 Sep 2011, 1:45 PM

yay, back, but when do we get new eggs?!

Orderedchaos • 13 Sep 2011, 1:45 PM

Hopefully this means mods soon. 😊

chatial • 13 Sep 2011, 1:58 PM

Thankyou Ian ❤️

miomar • 13 Sep 2011, 2:14 PM

New creatures!

christened_moon • 13 Sep 2011, 2:28 PM

This is a great idea. Thank you Ian! Though I find it hilarious that we now have a button specifically for reporting bots. ;D

dreamer • 13 Sep 2011, 3:04 PM

I came online, clicked the forums, and didn't even notice they came back. xD

crowvict • 13 Sep 2011, 3:08 PM

I'm glad the forms are up again^^ Thank you Ian 😊 Good after noon to every one as well.

sky • 13 Sep 2011, 3:16 PM

Glad that they're open! Thank you Ian! 😊

balletninja • 13 Sep 2011, 3:20 PM

Uhhshome!

whitefall • 13 Sep 2011, 3:38 PM

Ooh! Thanks Ian, I'm sure the blog won't be filled with all the users who want to socialize now. xD

kiti • 13 Sep 2011, 3:43 PM

Yay forums! xD

sky • 13 Sep 2011, 3:51 PM

Weird. Now that the forums are back up. I'm starting to have a habit of going to the blogs for conversation. 😋

lady_kassandra • 13 Sep 2011, 4:06 PM

mmm, good news)

shelby • 13 Sep 2011, 4:10 PM

So are there already moderators hired? xD

sky • 13 Sep 2011, 4:17 PM

Man, already there's another spam bot T_T

Meteoroid • 13 Sep 2011, 4:28 PM

Urgh, they seem to be starting up again.

smilies • 13 Sep 2011, 4:29 PM

I got one! >:]

meixiaotian • 13 Sep 2011, 4:31 PM

What?!

lizardfeather • 13 Sep 2011, 4:39 PM

0_e another...

shelby • 13 Sep 2011, 4:41 PM

Dang. D: It's a good thing Ian will be getting some mods soon.

Ian • 13 Sep 2011, 4:47 PM

Just report the bots and ignore them... they are indeed legitimate people that are physically POSTING spam messages. So even a captcha

Ian • 13 Sep 2011, 4:47 PM

won't stop this. :/

Ian • 13 Sep 2011, 4:47 PM

I'm vigilantly working on this 😋

Zac • 13 Sep 2011, 4:49 PM

Thanks Ian. 😊 You'll figure something out! We'll keep on reporting them from our end. 😸

shelby • 13 Sep 2011, 4:51 PM

Ah good. @Ian. I'm sure you'll figure something out to stop this. I can't suggest anything because I have no idea xD

taffy789 • 13 Sep 2011, 5:55 PM

Who gets paid to do this?!?! XD

lady_kassandra • 13 Sep 2011, 6:07 PM

new travel is so cool *o*

rosey77 • 13 Sep 2011, 6:24 PM

Woot! Goodbye, spambots! 😊

redfire77 • 13 Sep 2011, 6:32 PM

YAY 😃 who are the moderators/

turkishdelight • 13 Sep 2011, 6:53 PM

At first I didn't even notice there was another update below the one about the new travel! Silly me!

evolutary • 13 Sep 2011, 7:33 PM

The new travel is awesome! C:

wolfmilk • 14 Sep 2011, 2:16 AM

Yay! Forums are back!

evilyowling • 14 Sep 2011, 5:15 AM

*Dances* Let's destroy those Spambots! 😈

rabbitwanter • 16 Sep 2011, 8:11 PM

squee 😸

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