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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭Stabshauptmann


    does sitw stand for something or is it the username of a poster who keeps rereging?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    faceman wrote: »
    it was slowly coming more common place seeing plonkers threaten to sue on the site!

    Now back to smuggling foreigners in the Nocturnal forum...

    SSSshhhh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    does sitw stand for something or is it the username of a poster who keeps rereging?
    Site wide.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    Site wide.

    Spam in the works actually.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Aye - Spam in the Works. Think Ruu is the master detecting them. :P


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    That he is. Himself and Gordon have a price on their head in sweaty internet cafes in places we've never even heard of.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Bob the Builder


    I used to cry myself to sleep every night wondering what sitw meant, and now i finally know.... Ruu seems to be a good bullshít detector alright - there's something about that lad... :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,522 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Indeed spam in the works is correct, there are tell tale signs, usually the only people with sitw as a bantag are bots.

    Hopefully the bounty on me is higher than Ruus :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,575 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Spam in the works actually.
    What I always wondered but was afraid to ask in case I seemed like a noob..:)

    wait...

    :eek::o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Would "Spammer in the works" not sound better lads? More of a play on words on "spanner in the works". :)


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  • Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 18,821 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    I think that's what it started out as when we first started looking for dormant spambot accounts, but it's morphed into the acronym sitw now. I think Gordon got lazy, or else got a Business degree.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,522 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Can't remember if I coined it but it was shortened as I couldn't be arsed typing that all out every time.

    A while back Ruu was chasing my heels on the banlist so I started looking for old spambots with zero posts linked to spambots with posts. Unfortunately my searches uncovered a crapload of old accounts and I spent ages pruning them all. I had time on my hands then..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Spam in the works actually.
    Spiffing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,575 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Sherifu wrote: »
    Spiffing.
    Nifty


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,241 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    SteveC wrote: »
    Nifty
    Neato.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Spam in a can. I like ham.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,575 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    specially processed american meat /ftw

    wat?

    overheal - is that you?

    nom nom nom

    /thread loses direction


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