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Underrail => General => Topic started by: redgoesfastfastfastfast on March 15, 2022, 04:33:58 am

Title: The Bot Situation
Post by: redgoesfastfastfastfast on March 15, 2022, 04:33:58 am
What's up with all of the bot posts? I've been gone for months and there are these annoying bot posts everywhere, the yseem to follow a basic pattern and im surprised they are still here despite that?

Personal suggestion: Allow members to vote posts for deletion, however there must be criteria like the post must be less than a week old and the vote to delete must be at least 5-1 in favor of deletion. Requirement for voting is 2 month oldd account.
Title: Re: The Bot Situation
Post by: redgoesfastfastfastfast on March 16, 2022, 12:04:42 pm
Perhaps a requirement of 10 posts legitimate/a verification via discord prescence?
Title: Re: The Bot Situation
Post by: Barry on March 16, 2022, 01:51:16 pm
When even was the last time the registration form was changed? No wonder that there are so many bots since someone simply took note of the registration form and built a script for it, from what I noticed it only got one dynamic question serving as changing criteria.
Could always try to turn it into the account having to be personally confirmed by a forum administrator to be able to post.
Alternatively the posts made will always have to be approved by an administrator/moderator first before they show up unless the account is "trusted", which really is just a basic whitelist.
Title: Re: The Bot Situation
Post by: harperfan7 on March 16, 2022, 02:28:07 pm
oooooh, requiring a discord presence would generate mountains of butthurt; I'm all for that
Title: Re: The Bot Situation
Post by: hilf on March 18, 2022, 09:45:42 am
Can't wait for this thread to get copied by a bot.
I legit thought it was the case when i looked at OP's name: "redgoesfastfastfastfast". But it's the original thread and OP renamed her account.

Other forums require a number of posts made by a user to be accepted by moderators first. Maybe that's the way to go?
Title: Re: The Bot Situation
Post by: Styg on March 22, 2022, 12:29:35 pm
Installed some new anti-spam software. Let's see if it helps.

If anyone is having trouble posting for some reason, let me know (through PM, discord, or mail).
Title: Re: The Bot Situation
Post by: Eidein on March 23, 2022, 11:37:05 am
Quote from: redgoesfastfastfastfast on March 16, 2022, 12:04:42 pm
Perhaps a requirement of 10 posts legitimate/a verification via discord prescence?

Guess that means you don't get voting rights?
Title: Re: The Bot Situation
Post by: Barry on April 03, 2022, 06:17:27 pm
Sounds like the software worked pretty well, haven't seen a bot post that wasn't already made
Title: Re: The Bot Situation
Post by: Amannamedsquid on April 11, 2022, 10:01:02 am
Seems good so far. Wonder how long that will last?