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Youngm_IPCME

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I’m seeing a lot of bots bumping threads to post ads or creating new threads with somewhat garbled text. Is there anything that can be done about it? Maybe a captcha when creating an account?
 
topic:Young_IPMC said:
I’m seeing a lot of bots bumping threads to post ads or creating new threads with somewhat garbled text. Is there anything that can be done about it? Maybe a captcha when creating an account?
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I was gonna make a thread about this but I like seeing some of the older threads that get brought back. But it should definitely be fixed.
 
Bunping this thread as it’s more relevant now than it was when I posted it. I’m seeing several bot made and replied threads in NSG and gear talk that have been up for significantly more than a few days and haven’t been removed. Can the mods at least manually deal with the obvious ones?
 
14037129:Young_IPMC said:
Bunping this thread as it’s more relevant now than it was when I posted it. I’m seeing several bot made and replied threads in NSG and gear talk that have been up for significantly more than a few days and haven’t been removed. Can the mods at least manually deal with the obvious ones?
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Odds are we haven't seen them, if you message us links we can delete.
 
14037185:eheath said:
Odds are we haven't seen them, if you message us links we can delete.
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I guess bots also figured out admins don't enter the toxic wasteland known as NSG
 
A decently complex captcha might be helpful when creating accounts to prevent this, however I suspect some are just spammers with really bad english
 
A decently complex captcha might be helpful when creating accounts to prevent this, however I suspect some are just spammers with really bad english
 
14044986:Fogdart said:
A decently complex captcha might be helpful when creating accounts to prevent this, however I suspect some are just spammers with really bad english
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Spam accounts signing up for NS are not bots, they are real people, so a captcha is out of the question.
 
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