What's up with all the spam posts?
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@jamezb46 Or as someone said before hand... litterally cap the posts for a new account to a few posts and comments for the first day. If a real account wants to post more, he or she can wait a day, it's not deep.
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@alfredoolivas said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
@jamezb46 Or as someone said before hand... litterally cap the posts for a new account to a few posts and comments for the first day. If a real account wants to post more, he or she can wait a day, it's not deep.
Another vicious bot attack this morning @brad'ster. If this is possible I think it's a good idea.
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@ThinPicking Hell, even restrict the amount of comments and posts an account can make within the first 2 hours of creation!
The most notorious spam accounts will create all their spam within an hour and never login again afterwards.
For example, yori007 was created, made a bunch of mess within the first hour of creation, and didn't log back in after the first hour
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I sense a little emphasis on machines here.
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It's quite fascinating really. This. This is the plan apparently.
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@alfredoolivas said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
The laziness is insane.
Laziness or aversion to actual speech. Even that which is written and 'anon'.
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Well, it looks like the admin team has been busy banning new users. 8 new users (by my quick count) were banned within a few hours. Thank you.
https://bioenergetic.forum/usersThe spamsters seem intent on being mischievous.
I am wondering to myself if (or how) the situation will escalate.
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@alfredoolivas said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
and didn't log back in after the first hour
The account may have been quickly banned to prevent them from creating additional new posts.
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I added a few anti-spam provisions.
- CAPTCHA for new users. (Not sure if this worked.)
- New users have their posts placed in a queue requiring manual approval before they're posted to the main page. This can be avoided if you confirm your email address or get 2 "reputation" points (still not quite sure what those are).
Let me know if this helps. Will roll them back if unpopular.
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@brad said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
New users have their posts placed in a queue requiring manual approval before they're posted to the main page. This can be avoided if you confirm your email address or get 2 "reputation" points (still not quite sure what those are).
The reputation points are upvotes.
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Upvoted.
I'm here for the downvotes.
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Agreed. Upvoted.
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I am good with the anti-spam provisions that have been added. Let's wait and see how it goes.
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Eastbots in a state of utter confusion.
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you love to see it:
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@NoeticJuice I actually agree with this sentiment. While the "reputation" feature is necessary for anti-spam, I've added some custom css to hide the vote count. If people demand votes come back then I'll consider it but I don't want some implicit popularity metric aside people's posts. This isn't Reddit.
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@brad said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
I don't want some implicit popularity metric aside people's posts. This isn't Reddit.
Fine. I appreciate.
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Cloudflare recently announced that they are trying to confuse AI scrapers with random fact websites. I don't know if this is related, but it is something to look into if this website uses them as a provider
