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Well to solve this issue a captcha would be effective way to make spambots go away but it's rly annoying to fill captchas whenever u post.
Maybe there would be STG Forums Gold Membership which costs 100 plats and let's u bypass the captcha! STG would love it and make me a honorary gold membership member.
All it takes is a simple question / answer added to the registration form.
I manage over 14 forums and not one has ever had a single bot problem. It can be as simple as "What is the colour of grass?" make it a mandatory field and you can change the question every 3-6 months to be proactive (or if some bot figures it out, which is highly unlikely). I don't even change mine normally. It has worked on all my boards for 8 years, and takes about 3 minutes to implement.
Bots can read a lot of captchas now, or else they just keep guessing. But a text field is next to impossible for them. They can input captcha combos all day long and will never get in.
Better yet, how about the Report Post function actually doing something useful, like after xxx (10?) reports, the account is no longer able to start or post on threads for 6 or 12 hours.
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I agree with soundless... giving a group of people that have a stake in the game this kind of power is a wrong move. what if they start locking threads posted by members of a guild they are at war at? what if they go on a deleting spree? what if their acct gets hacked? what if they can not tell a spam bot from a new member posting many threads, but all with good ideas? and what kind of requirements would there be for you to become a "mini-mod". how many new mods would there be? would there be a maximum amount?
It's more a matter of what Sera suggested and implementing a question, adding a captcha, or improving the report post button. I'm sure they are on it- We all know how annoying it is to come here and find pages and pages of love garbage from that bot.
No way would they hand over any control of the forum to the customers. LOL!
I don't think 'trusted' people should have the rights to delete threads just leave it up to the mods to do there job or just do a cool down after making one thread like you do for sending private messages
Just to fill you guys in, I added some additional anti-spam measures this morning that should help immensely. We will continue to monitor the situation going forward and definitely consider your suggestions if things don't improve. We really appreciate your feedback.
Then what happens when people are chosen and those who aren't chosen... People cause too much drama over this game already it will just act as another sign of 'favouritism'.
thing is,
I heard some bots can get past captchas...
also, I've recently noticed something about the bots.
I went to the forums member list, and searched for the spambot's name, and there are over 10 names related to it. all of which were created one day, and never logged on for a while.
And a recent bot, I've noticed was a name i had seen before in the members list.
I'm not saying that each of those names are the bot, just saying we should probably keep an eye on those ones...
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