User talk:HollyCham

Greetings! I reverted Petri's block - briefly. It was hasty. Say something soon or you get re-blocked. Sorry if you're not a spammer, see below. --Caustic Logic (talk) 21:52, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * (click edit on this page, then type below this line) --Caustic Logic (talk) 21:59, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Petri, I'm all for blocking zombie accounts, with so many just waiting to spam us some day. Or still waiting to contribute. Almost all should be deleted, but less than a day old with Cham (Shaam, Syria+ Golan, etc.) included, best give that one a chance. Mr. Jesus, probably not too hasty. And all the others. I'll block some now. --Caustic Logic (talk) 21:52, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Wishful thinking? -- Petri Krohn (talk) 22:05, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, probably. Didn't do any research to find the mutant guy. --Caustic Logic (talk) 23:51, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * CE's gotten about all of the recent ones. Can't see how to pull up older ones. Not recent changes, all users, or active users. Are there many left? --Caustic Logic (talk) 21:59, 24 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I'm not aware of a straight-forward way to check. There are the log pages. User creation log shows user creation but not if they are blocked. Block log show who was blocked but not who wasn't. Without puzzling it all together my quick guess is there are around half a dozen "zombie accounts" open (they tend to have a talk page, but not necessarily). --CE (talk) 09:33, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Massive spam farm
I just blocked User:TrinaHo. She has a Twitter account as well as a Tumbrl account, even an Istagram account. Oh, forgot to mention, there are several photos of her in flickr. And yes, she is also on MySpace. Wow, is she hot! The only problem with Trina Ho is that despite her thousands of tweets and thousands Twitter followers she has absolutely nothing to say!

Some weeks ago I followed the internet personalities of another on our new users. Turned out she was a party-going 18 years old girl from somewhere in England. Too bad she, or none of her hundreds of Twitter friends had anything meaningful to say.

On another occasion a giveaway was that the Twitter account had the same number of followers as it was following (about 3000). Many of the followers were "follow me and I will follow you" accounts. I did follow the links to see if any of the friends could pass my Turing test. There was one guy in the Philippines who also had an Instagram account. He was found of taking pictures of his sneakers, he had three pairs of original Converse tennis shoes, all with original boxes. For authenticity, he even posted a photo of a computer screen with his Twitter account open. Anyway, one of his female friends lived in a Manila suburb. Even went to a church there. Or maybe she too fabricated the invitation to her daughter's christening.

The only commercial use for such a massive link farm of bot accounts I can think of, is the "make your ex jealous with 50 horny new Facebook friends" – only $59.00 -- Petri Krohn (talk) 18:14, 25 April 2013 (UTC)


 * But we don't know if those aspects of "personalities" belong together or are just distinct products of people using CamelCaseCrap name generators. It's interesting that the recent spam has been of the "adult" kind. Guess some nanny filters have rated us as such (and it's kind of true). btw, you're still my only twitter follower, Petri. :o(oP --CE (talk) 18:32, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Ok, my apologies. Trina Ho is real. I will go back and unblock her for now. (Or should we have a policy of only accepting contributions from people who have graduated from high school?) -- Petri Krohn (talk) 18:46, 25 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I see CE blocked her anyway. I liked the height comment - 5'4" minimum here. Lol, not true, but funny. Probably justified. I'm no good with the drama and investigating of alleged people, until I take the time, which I hate. Until then the details are blahblahblah. With nothing from this HollyCham, I would press block now, but I'm not sure what that means for this potentially useful chitchat here. --Caustic Logic (talk) 08:46, 26 April 2013 (UTC)