Spambots

WishfulFairie · 09-22-2012, 06:04 AM

Is this in the right section?

Im gonna guess this is spam....

Black King · 09-22-2012, 06:07 AM

Yeah. I think is was Sajuuk or another Quasi that made a thread about these spam bots. Report em, but don't reply.

Sajuuk · 09-22-2012, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Black King

Yeah. I think is was Sajuuk or another Quasi that made a thread about these spam bots. Report em, but don't reply.

What she said. Click the report post button and ignore the spam.

Hidden Ninja45 · 10-19-2012, 12:49 AM

Jeez, another spambot attack tonight. Isn't there anything that can be done about it?

Kakashi Hatake_Yamato · 10-19-2012, 01:17 AM

i know that the questions upon registration have been modified a bit. I think. Or that was another place.

The only thing we can do is ban them

*waits for other mods' replies

Sajuuk · 10-19-2012, 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Kakashi Hatake_Daphne Lu

i know that the questions upon registration have been modified a bit. I think. Or that was another place.

The only thing we can do is ban them

*waits for other mods' replies

Your thinking of another forum

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Originally Posted by Hidden Ninja45

Jeez, another spambot attack tonight. Isn't there anything that can be done about it?

Nope, there's nothing. The problem is that, contrary to popular belief, these spammers are not scripts (known as spambots) which we can ban and get rid of easily, but they are human spammers. This means that your conventional methods like Q+A, CAPTCHA does not work whatsoever on them as they are just like you and me: they can go and google the answer then spread the answer around to everyone else.

We can't do anything but ban them until they go away. There's an announcement thread I posted about this, which says just to report the post using the Report Button (the red exclamation mark icon on the left) and to ignore the thread. Don't reply or communicate with them.

Shikamaru Nara · 10-19-2012, 05:18 AM

What Sajuuk said. The only thing we can do is ban them. We also have an influx of multiple account that are the same bots. But we can't IP them because it would ban other good users.

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