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Suggestion to cut down on spam.Follow
Have all new non-premium posters be required to use a Captcha in order to post. Once they have reached 30 or 50 posts the Captcha requirement would be removed (not sure if this can be automated). Of course premium posters would not be affected by this requirement.
Shaowstrike (Retired - FFXI)
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
— James D. Nicoll
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
— James D. Nicoll
I don't think it's really necessary, and it would essentially kill our chances of getting new users to use the forum., We ban things pretty quickly for the most part when they need banning.
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Do they not use a Captcha on account creation already? I mean, you'd slow down an individual spammer's ability to multipost with the more invasive Captcha, but I rarely see more than a half dozen or so posts per spammer anyway.
Someone on another forum wrote:
Wow, you've got an awesome writing style.! I really dig the narrator's back story, humor, sarcasm, and the plethora of pop culture references. Altogether a refreshingly different RotR journal (not that I don't like the more traditional ones, mind you).
Bet that captcha system is starting to look pretty good about now, eh?
Shaowstrike (Retired - FFXI)
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Cooking/Fishing 100
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
— James D. Nicoll
91PUP/BLM 86SMN/BST 76DRK
Cooking/Fishing 100
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
— James D. Nicoll
Necro Warning: This post occurred more than thirty days after the prior, and may be a necropost.
How many of those are bots though, versus actual person spammers?
Someone on another forum wrote:
Wow, you've got an awesome writing style.! I really dig the narrator's back story, humor, sarcasm, and the plethora of pop culture references. Altogether a refreshingly different RotR journal (not that I don't like the more traditional ones, mind you).
Man, I sure would love to have to refresh a Captcha 15 or so times until there's a readable one every time I want to post for 30 posts. I'd surely stick around the forum.
Banh
The recent OOT spammers were a total of 5 accounts which each posted a few dozen topics one right after the other, each slightly altered to escape the duplicate thread catcher. Unless we implemented captcha on every post, which would instantly kill the forum dead, captcha would have had almost no effect We do need to figure out a way to move those threads elsewhere without leaving a "thread moved" placeholder. Necropost killer will send it back in time to it's origin, but it won't remove it from the page entirely.
Yes, we have a time machine.
Yes, we have a time machine.
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What ever happened to the Volunteer Mod idea? I mean that could help, make it so like under 10 post can be temp banned til its verified by a Admin. maybe put in place something like it needs to be reported 5 times before a volunteer mod could temp ban that would stem any abuse. maybe an idea?
Edit:I mean you're never going prevent it completely even with capcha and stuff they will still post.
Edited, May 11th 2013 1:07am by BeanX
Edit:I mean you're never going prevent it completely even with capcha and stuff they will still post.
Edited, May 11th 2013 1:07am by BeanX
An EU based mod would help. Those threads stay up a long time if they're posted in the morning for me.
Theophany wrote:
YOU'RE AN ELITIST @#%^ AETHIEN, NO WONDER YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS AND PEOPLE HATE YOU.
someproteinguy wrote:
Aethien you take more terrible pictures then a Japanese tourist.
Astarin wrote:
One day, Maz, you'll learn not to click on anything Aeth links.
Horsemouth wrote:
At work I'm in charge of UID/PWD combos. When people forget their initial password, I punish them with their new PWD.
The new PWD is often something like : idbecoolerifiwasaethien
YOU'RE AN ELITIST @#%^ AETHIEN, NO WONDER YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS AND PEOPLE HATE YOU.
someproteinguy wrote:
Aethien you take more terrible pictures then a Japanese tourist.
Astarin wrote:
One day, Maz, you'll learn not to click on anything Aeth links.
Horsemouth wrote:
At work I'm in charge of UID/PWD combos. When people forget their initial password, I punish them with their new PWD.
The new PWD is often something like : idbecoolerifiwasaethien
yeah they often strike late at night when only people in Europe and sleepless canucks like me are up.
Also I agree that the captcha is a bad idea. I hate that crap. It would drive away new users.
Also I agree that the captcha is a bad idea. I hate that crap. It would drive away new users.
lolgaxe wrote:
When it comes to sitting around not doing anything for long periods of time, only being active for short windows, and marginal changes and sidegrades I'd say FFXI players were the perfect choice for politicians.
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