Site newcomer or potential danger...?

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cliff
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Site newcomer or potential danger...?

Post by cliff » Thu Feb 02, 2017 3:07 pm

Hi all! (Especially Greg!)

There's a newcomer (?) to the site, by the nick of yapedkef' who seems to be a bit puzzling...

He joined four days ago, on January 30. He has zero games in play, and has played in zero games, unsurprisingly.
This seems to fly in the face of the normal tendency of 'newbies' who join, because the site is free and they want to play some chess!
They enter one or more tournaments with haste, and they like the site an stay, or more often then not, can't handle the ego-bruising or time involved and quit.
They do not join and not play, at least a game or two.

However, yapedkef has posted in four of the seven Forums. No questions or comments, though.
Merely advertisements for a Laser Projector, and some other things.

I would not advise clicking on any of the links he gives though. I haven't, out of fear of what I'm letting in. Hackers, etc. are everywhere these days.

He may be a harmless salesman, of a sort, but really , do we want that here?

I think it would be advisable for Greg to look into this.

Over to you, Greg!

Thanks,

Cliff.

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Re: Site newcomer or potential danger...?

Post by redketchuplover » Fri Feb 03, 2017 11:11 am

I second that emotion :mrgreen:

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Re: Site newcomer or potential danger...?

Post by ziggyblitz » Sat Feb 04, 2017 11:25 pm

The potential market on this site would be zero. They're wasting their time.

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Re: Site newcomer or potential danger...?

Post by gmiller » Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:12 am

Finally had to add a simple captcha to the join form. Hopefully it'll be enough to slow them down.
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Re: Site newcomer or potential danger...?

Post by gcohen » Mon Feb 06, 2017 11:12 am

It's now "wapedkef".
Websites charge for advertising.
Why not charge him $100 per month, or kick him off the site?
Once this starts, Greg, there will be no stopping it.

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