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May 10, 2012
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 5:05 pm
by ToledoRailfan
Wow, what was so special about May 10, 2012 that there were so many members on?!
Re: May 10, 2012
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:58 pm
by cabman701
ToledoRailfan wrote:Wow, what was so special about May 10, 2012 that there were so many members on?!
I think that was a fluke of some sort. Not sure what time zone that represents... but back then (in 2012), I would have been at work at that time of the morning driving a school bus, so I know for a fact that I couldn't have been signed on.
Re: May 10, 2012
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 1:00 pm
by busman_49
cabman701 wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:Wow, what was so special about May 10, 2012 that there were so many members on?!
I think that was a fluke of some sort. Not sure what time zone that represents... but back then (in 2012), I would have been at work at that time of the morning driving a school bus, so I know for a fact that I couldn't have been signed on.
Same here!
Re: May 10, 2012
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 1:17 pm
by ZachL
busman_49 wrote:cabman701 wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:Wow, what was so special about May 10, 2012 that there were so many members on?!
I think that was a fluke of some sort. Not sure what time zone that represents... but back then (in 2012), I would have been at work at that time of the morning driving a school bus, so I know for a fact that I couldn't have been signed on.
Same here!
It could be possible that guests were registered into that counter, y'all.
Re: May 10, 2012
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 5:31 pm
by freebrickproductions
ZachL wrote:busman_49 wrote:cabman701 wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:Wow, what was so special about May 10, 2012 that there were so many members on?!
I think that was a fluke of some sort. Not sure what time zone that represents... but back then (in 2012), I would have been at work at that time of the morning driving a school bus, so I know for a fact that I couldn't have been signed on.
Same here!
It could be possible that guests were registered into that counter, y'all.
It most likely did. Why over 200 guests were on here then? I have no clue.
Re: May 10, 2012
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 5:44 pm
by cabman701
freebrickproductions wrote:It most likely did. Why over 200 guests were on here then? I have no clue.
Maybe it was 200 guest robots?
Re: May 10, 2012
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 5:24 am
by Raco_GS
Back then there was a massive problem with spam bots joining and then filling up the forum with spam topics, however when Mike first told me and a couple of the old regulars this we didn't believe him, so he enabled the "Register" button to show us how ridiculous the spam was (Remember, back then you actually had to email Mike Hickok in order to sign up), and ridiculous it was as I believe the end result was Mike having to delete over 200 topics of spam...
I eventually came up with the "What does WCH stand for?" thing on the sign up page to fool spam bots, and it seems like it's done it's job... for now.
Re: May 10, 2012
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 7:39 am
by freebrickproductions
PaulSP wrote:Back then there was a massive problem with spam bots joining and then filling up the forum with spam topics, however when Mike first told me and a couple of the old regulars this we didn't believe him, so he enabled the "Register" button to show us how ridiculous the spam was (Remember, back then you actually had to email Mike Hickok in order to sign up), and ridiculous it was as I believe the end result was Mike having to delete over 200 topics of spam...
I eventually came up with the "What does WCH stand for?" thing on the sign up page to fool spam bots, and it seems like it's done it's job... for now.
I believe only one active spammer has gotten in sense then, so I'd say it's done a good job.
Re: May 10, 2012
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 11:12 pm
by ZachL
PaulSP wrote:"What does WCH stand for?"
A whole bunch of @#*$
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/WCH
Re: May 10, 2012
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 4:38 pm
by cabman701
At least the "correct" answer made the list!
