Ask Giles Anything

[AdamJ]

@Steffen yes

[Steffen]

Merci 

[goosehd]

Just wondering if you guys noticed.  Double the amount of new members than last year, and more than quite a few of the years combined.

[Giles]

We "only" have about 8300 members in total.  So those numbers will include spambots who have tried to join, and we've not accepted.  There has been a massive surge in Russian bots trying to "join" this year….

[goosehd]

Thank you for keeping them out. 

[weftyarn]

Those insights are incredibly interesting, G!

One just can't imagine what effort you all put in this.
Defending a Japanese clothing forum against Russian spam bots is the last thing i would have thought about 

I hope they keep calm over Christmas

Greets
Emil

[goosehd]

@Giles @Alex I don't know if something is going on behind the scenes or if it's on my end…For the last two days when I have made a post, it takes forever to upload to the forum.  Is there something wrong on your end or possibly mine?

[Daniel San]

had the same problems!

[Alex]

I’ve noticed that too, but put it down to slow 3G connection. I’ll take it up with the tech team, thank you. @goosehd

[goosehd]

Thanks @Alex!!

[Giles]

I have been having exactly the same problem today….

[sabergirl]

I noticed this yesterday on Tapatalk, and it led me to double-post from mashing reply over and over [emoji23]

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[Jett129]

And I kept thinking I must be using the wrong finger,cause I would switch fingers and then it would seem to work.

[Matt]

Same issue.  Figured it was my shit desert Wi-Fi.

[Kasi]

Same issue for the last 3 days

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[Giles]

Do you still have it now?

Better for me today.

[Kasi]

Seem to be ok today

Yep all good

[vaquero357]

@Giles

…what do you think? A) Cut the bail and ram it through? Or, grab a pair of pliers and rip it out from

whence it came? ???

[Giles]

Never needed to tr it myself, but this method is supposed to be the best…..

http://www.bishfish.co.nz/articles/general/hookout.htm

[vaquero357]

…oh man, I'm looking for the anesthesiologist on this one (@Anesthetist) , I don't want to know how you get it out just get it out!