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Though I do find the memes amusing, and some of the Holders are fun.

Would it count as Sueism if my agents tried to give a Sue or a /b/tard troll to a Holder, then realised that they were within its line of sight and the only way to actually get out was to pass the test to get the Object?

The Second Disentangler (a cheerful sort) or the Third (who was rather unstable owing to the circumstances of her second regeneration).

Weren't all these supposed to be deleted?

For those of you who missed it, there was a bot spamming the board with the same post at a rate of several posts per minute for several hours last night. I posted the above post at about 2 in the morning, when it looked like the bot had stopped for a while. I've been exchanging E-mails with both the server.com folks and the hosts of the server doing the spamming, we'll see what happens with that. The posts around here will be more than a bit weird as all the (hundreds of) spam posts were deleted, leaving our inserted comments without context.

I shall name him Frederick! *huggles the Ypur*

*indulges in nibbles, but keeps her egg whisk at the ready*

Some of their backstories go back to 1995. Do you want me on one of the earlier regenerations?

Or may I just email it to you and you stick it in anyways? Just wondering.

The YourWebApps.com guys deleted the spam, but not sure about the IP address. The bot attack was stopped by the sysadmin of the webhost it was using.

I think what happened was that the owners of YourWebApps.com deleted the spam messages and blocked the IP address. Anyway, huzzah that it's gone! *Ypur falls on head*

Yeah. Now we've just gotta get rid of the Ypurs. I'll take one, they're cute. :D

... that until this year, the only section to exist at all was the PPC one. This year I said that stories could be written for any of them, but as it turned out I was still the only person who did anything in the Wiki (and that took effort). But yes, they'll all be open next time, too. No pages until someone writes something, though.

hS, general-purpose busybody

Admittedly, I missed most of it because I was at the cinema, but yay for vanished!spambot! :D

*gets a noise maker*

*fweeeee~*

are about to get their RC flooded with ypurs. You can adopt from there, if you like.

Anyway, I guess that by style sheets cascading style sheets are meant. I think that the problem here is that a margin needs to be defined for the main frame (where the main content is). If you know what that is called on the style sheet just add something like this:

#main_content { margin: 40px 12.5em 20px 20px;
padding: 20px;
}

Margin and padding both have the effect of placing text further from the border of the screen. There's probably more specifics to it, but I'd have to look that up. Thing about style sheets is that you make them once and don't have to bother about them until you want to change them. Knowledge about them doesn't seem to stick much for lack of use.

...for the last thirteen hours, in fact, I think we can safely say that Techno-Dann was successful. The spam has stopped and has been deleted. The Board is once again ours.

All praise goes to JulyFlame who first alerted Techno-Dann, to Techno-Dann for leaping in to stop the deluge, and to hS for creating this temporary refuge during the crisis. Thanks to them all.

All the spam messages seem to be gone. Yay!

~Neshomeh

Of course, we shouldn't get too excited. We are vulnerable to more, after all. But for now, let us celebrate!

*hauls out a limitless supply of Bleeproducts, drinks and nibbles*

Celebrate, for the Board is ours once again!

I was wondering whether you were still around, hS. Good to see you're alive.

Is anybody else wondering "Why now, after all these years with no serious spam problems?" Or am I just paranoid?

Style sheets... I know a little bit, but I'd have to see the thing. It's been a while since I took that HTML class. There would probably be trial and error involved.

As for moderators, we've never had official mods, but there have always been people who stepped in when stepping in was needed. If we were to have official mods, we'd just have to appoint those people.

Perhaps it is time to stop being so very resistant to change.

~Neshomeh, rather annoyed.

Although this was the same spambot who'd made a brief appearance weeks ago (and was the creator of the ypur). So it might come back.

Or Techno-Dann was successful. One of the two.

It might have already been stopped, from what I've learned from Techno-Dann.

But it had done that several times over when it had been spamming.

I never clicked the link, I only glanced at the summary. But, yeesh, that's really disturbing.

Wiki front page has been updated with this news.

I'll be sure to keep that updated on the situation.

And if this is a permanent switch, I can offer the wiki page for the Constitution to be linked to, or if not that, we could always whip up a freewebs or something for it.