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Just been nosing through who's online and notice several people listed as registering. When clicking on username most have been banned. I assume these are our spammers/cadgers. What I would like to know is if a member is banned can they still log onto the Vine? Must be a fulltime job for mods and admin sorting the wheat from the chaff - well done all of you.
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I noticed some people with a status of "Banned" and couldn't understand why I could still read the posts. If they're spammers or cadgers, then banning is the best thingMy girls found their way into my heart and now they nest there -
Originally posted by rustylady View PostTotally agree. Hip, Hip, Hooray for our vigilant Mods, they're doing a cracking jobOriginally posted by MaureenHall View Post
I don't suppose the banned ones bother coming back under those user-names - they just register under another gobble-de-gook name & try again
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You don't need to register at all to read the posts and threads. Sometimes when I'm using comp at work I just become a 'Voyeur'!
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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I think we should all collect weed seeds this coming season and when we get these people gadging, send them a selection to plant!I am certain that the day my boat comes in, I'll be at the airport.Comment
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Most of the banned accounts are computer generated, they fill in the registration but obviously dont or cant complete the link bit as that is designed to stop them dead, and it does exactly what is says on the tin. Hence, they stay in registration never land.
If a person who is banned has posted on the vine, those posts will still be visible but will say "banned" under their name.
I am unable to tell you what a banned member can see as if I banned myself, I wouldnt be able to get back in?Comment
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we'll pass you the key through the letterbox promiseOriginally posted by pigletwillie View Post
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PW - Could you not register under a different name & then ban that name & see what happens?Originally posted by pigletwillie View Post
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PW you could always ban your OH then she could use your log in to post(only a suggestion
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Last edited by bubblewrap; 14-12-2008, 05:09 PM.The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
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Um i sound really silly saying this
but what does cadger actually mean???
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Happybunny a cadger is someone who always wants something for nothing.Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
and ends with backache
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Hi Stacey.
The spammers try to get us to click on their websites, and the cadgers try to get us to send seeds [as dave from derry proved] or email addresses so they can send allsorts directly to people's email addresses.
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Going round asking for things for free I might go round next door & cadge a cup of sugar or I might cadge of a fellow gardener a few spare seeds.
It is different to borrowing & is usually done as a favour.The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
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I used to be involved in falconry. A cadge was a wooden frame with shoulder straps that the serf or lowly being carried the falcons/hawks around on. He would allow other lowly beings to see the birds for a small fee, hence he would 'cadge' a tip off them.Originally posted by happybunny View PostUm i sound really silly saying this but what does cadger actually mean???
Nothing to do with the odd people logging on to the forum, but I love knowing where words come from (and a lot do come from falconry - hoodwink is another and Shakespeare used loads of falconry phrases - none of which I can remember (huge sighs of relief from all)).
Incidently, love seeing who else is nosey when I go to check on the members list for members who haven't posted - always the usual suspects there with me on the 'last visited by' section.NellComment
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Cadger = Scrounger!Originally posted by happybunny View PostUm i sound really silly saying this but what does cadger actually mean???
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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