@admin
As others have highlighted, the Den could do with a little housekeeping, and sweeping away the unwanted debris. Curious to know what WordPress offers in the way of security from such intrusions?
Security is as good as we can currently make it. And house is definitely being kept! 🙂 Occasionally – as recently – we have an odd spate of slightly cleverer bots joining the site because they manage to foil part of the software. While it is annoying to see them on the wall, they have no ability to interact or affect the Den at all. (Each user who signs up to the Den has to be manually approved by a human, rather than a program). Deleting this bot profiles too quickly tends to lead to increased frequency of attempts to join the site by whoever or wherever the bot originated, while allowing the inactive profile to stay for a few weeks, seems to foil further attempts. This is why they are not deleted immediately. Apologies for any apparent untidiness but the situation is being monitored and dealt with behind the scenes. In a few weeks time the extra profiles will be gone.
Security is as good as we can currently make it. And house is definitely being kept! 🙂 Occasionally – as recently – we have an odd spate of slightly cleverer bots joining the site because they manage to foil part of the software. While it is annoying to see them on the wall, they have no ability to interact or affect the Den at all. (Each user who signs up to the Den has to be manually approved by a human, rather than a program). Deleting this bot profiles too quickly tends to lead to increased frequency of attempts to join the site by whoever or wherever the bot originated, while allowing the inactive profile to stay for a few weeks, seems to foil further attempts. This is why they are not deleted immediately. Apologies for any apparent untidiness but the situation is being monitored and dealt with behind the scenes. In a few weeks time the extra profiles will be gone.
That’s very reassuring, and I like your strategic thinking. Cheers. 🙂
Many thanks for all your efforts @admin.
I was hoping the Thomas S Cook bot might give some travel tips …