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Bug reporting spam

by Terence Tan · in Torsion · 02/12/2007 (3:58 am) · 1 replies

Tom,

You probably fixed this already...but I have recently been (last week) bombarded by spam from the bug reporting system (actually more somebody posting updates on the bug that I submitted..and the person seems to like to report bugs that involve porn of some form).

BTW..that bug still happens...sometimes when I exit Torsion..it crashes..no specific behavior...although shutdown down windows with Torsion running does make it happen once in a while.
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Associate Tom Spilman
Sickhead Games
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02/12/2007 (12:17 pm)
Yea we had some jerk off that thought that posting porn spam to our mantis bug tracker was fun. I was combating it thru deleting his posts for the last month or two, but he started posting dozens of messages in the last week. I spent about two hours last week adding a captcha test to guest comment posts. That should put a permanent end to the porn spam.

The exit crash is a race condition that occurs in the background ScriptSense thread. It doesn't hurt anything, but it sucks for it to be happening. Since it's only by chance that it occurs, it is almost impossible to debug correctly. I thought i had solved it with the 1.1.006 beta release, but it seems to still be there. I'll make another attempt to fix it in the next 1.1 beta.