Wtf is happening to the AMA section?
Maybe it only happened today but someone has been spamming the section posting random stuff.
It really looks like someone created a whole load of accounts to do it. |
Yeah that was annoying as hell!
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That, my friends, is what we like to call a spambot. It's not a "someone" but a "something," it's creating bum accounts to spam links and such.
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I'm trying to get rid of them but am struggling to keep up at the moment, sorry
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Thank you for doing your best! Your efforts are appreciated!
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Yea, it's been going on for the past couple of weeks, check out the ban area in the quick links section.
They need to make a adjustment to how your able to join, like a picture verification, you know were they show you 6 pictures and you have to choose which ones are food, etc. |
Or we could make it so you would need to wait a fixed amount of time before you can start your own AMA thread, like 2 or 3 days. That might stop *this* spam bot.
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So do think there needs to be some check when creating accounts to make sure it's not a bot. Seems strange that I often have to prove I'm not a bot when I edit my blog, but you don't when creating an account! Feel sorry for anyone genuinely creating a new thread at the moment, as will just get lost in the spam threads. |
Hoo boy this shit is spreading everywhere.
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OMG.This is just sooooooo fucking annoying!
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I'd rather slow removal instead of no removal. Hey, we all appreciate it. Well, except the spam bot. |
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* I never worked with AutoIt, but it doesn't look too difficult to learn. Edit: Removing threads should be just point-and-shoot functions, leaving the matter of filtering the spam accounts. I guess any user who registered himself on the current day (on which the sceipt is running) and posts a first thread containing several links (in certain sections) would suffice as criteria. |
If we let the bot continue, will it type the complete works of W. Shakespeare?
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