[CrossXchaos]

I don't want them either, but with the sudden flood of spambots in 2 days alone, I think we may need them. That, or allow Hatter and Dtier to see Reports

Discuss

[Halcyon Dtier]

We already have a captcha.

[HotGamerMum]

I'm looking into some other alternatives to see whether i can stop the spambots. Is getting super annoying.

Any ideas please let me know.
Thank you

[Kaos]

These bots could be similiar...

IP scan each one, and see if they are the same/located near each other. I gotta head into school and dont have tme. But my status on my profile has several of them, and their priofile limks.

[Jask]

Kaos, on 08 November 2011 - 04:14 AM, said:

These bots could be similiar...

IP scan each one, and see if they are the same/located near each other. I gotta head into school and dont have tme. But my status on my profile has several of them, and their priofile limks.

Nope, they're coming from different IPs, or at least being masked to look like it.

[Halcyon Dtier]

Mum, you could give the mods access to the report centre.

Jask has been telling people to report threads/posts with spam, but the mods can't see the reports.

[HotGamerMum]

Well currently only admins and officers can see the reported post.

I'll see into it adding you mods later to the settings later

[S13driftAZ]

I'm sure you guys already know this, but I feel like saying it anyways.

these spambots are out of control

There must be at least, 5 threads a day.

This post has been edited by S13driftAZ: 13 November 2011 - 01:03 AM

[One]

Have all new members first posts be automatically hidden, until one of the staff members can come and check out the post, and approve or delete/ban if necessary. Make the new accounts unable to post until their original post has been approved by a staff member.

[S13driftAZ]

Posts or new threads? Threads would make more sense if it's the former

This post has been edited by S13driftAZ: 13 November 2011 - 07:31 AM

[HotGamerMum]

I'm looking into it as to how i want this to go about.

Firstly i need to start looking for new mods. Then i might implement that system.

[Halcyon Dtier]

HotGamerMum, on 13 November 2011 - 06:39 PM, said:

I'm looking into it as to how i want this to go about.

Firstly i need to start looking for new mods. Then i might implement that system.

I think we're set for mod numbers to be honest.

We are cleaning the bots up fairly fast.

The bots are going to keep coming in with our current system.
Maybe we can use a different captcha which might be harder for them to break?

[S13driftAZ]

I doubt anyone here is eligible to be a mod, lol.

[HotGamerMum]

Well captcha, we change it and now to see how well it works.

[Kaos]

Guess it didnt work.

http://forums.minega...r-graphic-arts/

[IamEpicFailure]

Well, I think it did for a while.
At least we only saw 1 topic instead of 4 or 5...

[S13driftAZ]

Kaos, on 15 November 2011 - 08:14 AM, said:

Guess it didnt work.

http://forums.minega...r-graphic-arts/

If it isnt obvious enough, we have tons and tons of bots already registered.

Expect them in the next few weeks

[Kaos]

http://forums.minega...74-vavasaupsod/

This bot joined today.

Also, bits dont make more than one post. Usually. So we really dont jave to worry about those here already.

[Halcyon Dtier]

It's been banned.

If you guys see any spam posts then please use the report feature.
All mods now have access to it.

[One]

Halcyon Dtier, on 15 November 2011 - 09:12 PM, said:

All mods now have access to it.

Oh good, now I don't have a reason to shout at you or Mad Hatter over the shoutbox/msn/steam about bots.