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Wtf is with those bots?
« on: May 26, 2015, 09:04:08 pm »
Seriously, we get roughly two a day.
Is there anything we can do about it?
I dunno, moderating the first post of a player or something?
... Or how about the second.  8)
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Re: Wtf is with those bots?
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2015, 06:38:29 am »
I also changed the security questions twice recently and still they come...

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Re: Wtf is with those bots?
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2015, 10:50:50 am »
It doesn't matter, I killed them on sight. )

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Re: Wtf is with those bots?
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2015, 04:31:53 pm »
Well, we could set it so new members first posts in the "Underrail" Section that get through the Captcha have to be approved before being shown to "the general public".
Blocking external links might also discourage some.
I just realized this probably belongs to Site Feedback.
If all fails, maybe commission an extra moderator or two to prune them faster? I mean, come release, there might be a few extra users, and we wouldn't want to discourage them that way.
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Re: Wtf is with those bots?
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2015, 01:09:00 pm »
Well, we could set it so new members first posts in the "Underrail" Section that get through the Captcha have to be approved before being shown to "the general public".
Blocking external links might also discourage some.
I just realized this probably belongs to Site Feedback.
If all fails, maybe commission an extra moderator or two to prune them faster? I mean, come release, there might be a few extra users, and we wouldn't want to discourage them that way.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. The problem is (still) not that bad. I'd rather remove a few bot posts every day, than have even more posting restrictions.

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Re: Wtf is with those bots?
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2015, 11:15:22 pm »
Well, there you go. 2447 Bot posts. From one bot.  But damn you got patience.  8)
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Re: Wtf is with those bots?
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2015, 09:02:05 am »
Now I know what happened to this place:


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Re: Wtf is with those bots?
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2015, 10:30:21 am »
It's become a tourist magnet?  :P
Do you have to delete all their comments by hand, btw, or is there some button "Purge all"?
But how did you foresee this? Man, you have some psionic powers 8)
I leveled them all the way to 135.
You see, the bright side of pessimism is the positive outlook you get on the results.
If it really goes wrong, you can say you always knew, and that's oddly satisfying.
If everything comes out alright, you can be pleasantly surprised.
If it still comes worse, that sort of undermines the premise.
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Re: Wtf is with those bots?
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2015, 03:34:41 pm »
The security question should be something Underrail specific that is not resolved by a single Google search. Like "What is the three-letter word for mind powers in Underrail?" Or "SGS stands for South Gate... (Fill in the last word)"