What's up with all the spam posts?
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@Luke said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
'User' veyewo joined 21 minutes ago has 0 reputation and made 8 spam posts in a row. https://bioenergetic.forum/user/veyewo
Oh I missed that. I guess it's so over if they're verifying 'real' email addresses.
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This might not be possible, or even a good idea, but what if new users have to add a credit card upon registration? And they are charged like 0$ or 0.01$.
This would fix the problem, no?
I thought about adding a bunch of questions like "How much milk should one drink per day?" and have someone manually review every new user but that would become extremely tedious (especially if all new users are bots).
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I've taken the following steps:
- Required new signups to receive administrative approval
- Increased the amount of upvotes/reputation you need to have un-reviewed posts.
That should halt the botswarm momentum for now. Hopefully the locusts lose interest and move on to greener pastures. @ThinPicking @Kilgore Thank you both for all of your help during this time.
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@brad Thanks that should work. Could you clean up the post queue? When I go to Bell > Post awaiting review I get one post loaded up. I reject that then a page with like 50 posts loads up. But there I am not allowed to reject/accept posts "You do not have enough privileges for this action.". Not one by one or in bulk.
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@Kilgore done
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@brad thx
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Yo, can you guys, like, whitelist me or something? I have been a good boy, I assure you.
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@Cicero Uploaded a bunch of your posts so hopefully that works. Or you can also confirm your email that will surely work.
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@Kilgore Sick, thanks.
