If you delete a suspicious account, can you send me the Username, IP, and email address if you can? I've been tracking both the accounts I've been deleting, and the ones I see attacking the forum on the error log. Some of the spammers reuse their fake email or username again and again as a sort of calling card. This can be helpful if they're attacking from a new IP that hasn't been widely reported yet on spam lists.<br />
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Here's what I've been looking at:<br />
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- Google the IP, if an IP gets hits on the first page for one or more of the following:<br />
-- Stop Forum Spam - IP Check - [IP Address]<br />
-- BotScout.com: IP Check: [IP Address]<br />
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Then it's highly likely that it is a bot that is spamming us, trying to register an account. I've found if you follow the links to one of those pages, you will generally find either the username or email address somewhere in the list - sometimes it's a close variation.<br />
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I will also sometimes to searches on the email address and/or username. The very generic ones that would come up in a lot of searches are generally fake. Typically a real forum user will come up with a few reasonable hits, though not always. <br />
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If I don't have enough evidence, then I leave the account alone. If after one day the new user hasn't been online (which I judge to be atypical behavior), then I will also delete the account.<br />
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This may sound incredibly dull, but it's actually been a little interesting. If you don't feel like doing any of this then that's fine too, but please do pass along the information, please. Very few of the attacks actually succeed in registering.<br />
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I'd be happy to post the spreadsheet I've been keeping somewhere and updating it periodically if there is any interest.

I just uploaded an updated version of BtSO, both the original version (1.5) and the HD version.  This is because of a potential JS if Jack does not start with the easy route first.<br />
Thanks to Mick 

really enjoying replaying this mansion in HD but ran into a problem in room 14302 -- Jack can't pull the lever and has no (obvious) way to proceed. 

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If you go to the Admin page you can see that there is a new stable version of YaBB available. We have 2.4 but can upgrade to 2.5. Shall we do it? I don't know how to. Besides, if it ain't broken, don't fix it.

I just noticed that the number of registered members is now 386 but it was 5xx a few days ago.  Anyone know what is going on?

Jack can't climb in the right corner. It behaves as it exist only one step and not more.

I've been playing the custom mansions... sort of checking them. I started out just playing but kept finding problems, so went with scrubbing through them fast to look for trouble spots.<br />
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This involved using the cheat codes.<br />
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The prefs screen doesn't freeze unless I invoke the map or the secrets (no problem with extra lives, keys or money), and then it locks up for anywhere between 30 seconds and 5 minutes. I've learned to wait it out, but it's a PITA.<br />
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Also: I notice there's no longer a message about <blockquote>Used Cheats</blockquote> when the game is completed.  This is only with the Custom Mansions; I haven't done a cheat on the included mansions to see if they come up <blockquote>clean</blockquote> too.<br />

Room 17102<br />
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The lever Jack is standing on doesn't function.<br />
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Room 16211 (ish)<br />
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From where Jack is standing, he can climb up, but there's no place to go once up. <br />
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The clearance won't allow him to step OFF the ledge he's standing on and jump up onto the red pathway.<br />
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Tell me what I'm missing, please?<br />
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Room 17321.<br />
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I haven't checked any of the other signs to see if they have text or not.

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