What's up with all the spam posts?
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@brad votes still change users' reputation. Would it be possible to hide that as well?
Notifications about upvotes and downvotes can also influence people.
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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
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Based cloudflare.
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@NoeticJuice said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
Notifications about upvotes and downvotes can also influence people.
Yes, for example, I turned off upvote/downvote notifications for my posts in settings, trying to stop my vanity from interfering with my own opinions
On the other hand, upvoting is an easy way to say "thank you" or "I agree" without writing an extra post just for that...
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@Kvirion I'd upvote this, but you wouldn't know...
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@NoeticJuice Thanx! LOL, good point
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Today's attack was accomplished by at least 70 (the number is still growing) new users.
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Associates will swiftly find themselves with an aggressive neoplasm no amount of bioen trickery can touch. Salud.
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The spamsters are like wolves; they attack in packs.
We may need to place a limit on the number of new users per day to keep future packs small and therefore less disruptive.
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@DavidPS said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
We may need to place a limit on the number of new users per day to keep future packs small and therefore less disruptive.
I agree. more than 100 spams today.
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@ThinPicking do you read dm's of all users?
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I don't and can't.
What the hell is that question. Explain yourself. Now.
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@ThinPicking an incel dm'd me and then got banned and I didn't see posts so I was wondering if u banned them after they called me jew but then I realized I know who it is nvm
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@sunsunsun said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
an incel dm'd me and then got banned and I didn't see posts so I was wondering if u banned them after they called me jew but then I realized I know who it is nvm
Username please.
Todays spam involved many new accounts. I blanket deleted the threads and banned hours old accounts from the users page that fit some other criteria.
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@ThinPicking its fine dont worry
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Again more than 100 spams
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Help! The bots are taking over
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How do those accounts bypass the 3 posts rule? Some of them have more than three in a row.
Anyway, it doesn't solve the problem anyway as there dozens of such accounts. It seems to me that making an account is to easy. I have never seen such massive bot attacks on any forum I've ever used. So there has to be a way to prevent them.
Why wouldn't solving a captcha at registration work? Are there ways for bots to bypass that as well?
I made a new account a few minutes ago to test it, and you just have to put in a username and password. You already have an account then. In the next step you have to submit an email address, but it serves no purpose. I just submitted donald.duck@whatthehell.com. In other forums a link is sent to your email to confirm it's really you. Until you click the link in the email, you account isn't active. Wouldn't that prevent the bot attacks?
However, with the new account I get the message that there is a queue system and a mod has to unlock the post, so I don't get how these spam posts happen anyway.
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@brad said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
or get 2 "reputation" points (still not quite sure what those are).
Maybe they're scripting upvotes. The email addresses are throwaways so we just disable this.
