Alot of SPAM lately on this forum!

Cato

What’s happening? I get lots of asian (Chinese?) spam-posts in my Feedly feed today from Magic Mirror forum.

yawns

@Cato
I already mentioned that in the internal forum. We need to find a way to block these kinds of “users” (bots), without anoying the real users.
I deleted more than 20 spam posts and banned 6 (or 7) users within 10 minutes, this is really frustrating.

Cato

What about CAPTCHA? Wouldn’t that stop most/all bot activity?

yawns

@Cato said in Alot of SPAM lately on this forum!:

What about CAPTCHA? Wouldn’t that stop most/all bot activity?

We do have a captcha to register for an account.
You have to click the “I am not a robot” checkbox and select pictures according to a specific question.
But that does not seem to be enough. I am not sure if you need to verify your account by clicking a link in an email. Maybe that could be another hurdle

Cato

Verifying email should be a minium. If the problem still occurs, maybe using CAPTCHA for every post? It’s just one extra click…

Cato

Over 120 SPAM posts today! Please do something…

yawns

@Cato said in Alot of SPAM lately on this forum!:

Over 120 SPAM posts today! Please do something…

In fact it was more than 200, and I deleted most of them on my smartphone after waking up. We are discussing possible steps internally

Mykle1

I was here last night for the onslaught. It was horrible. I was fully armed and wanted to nuke the bastards!

cowboysdude

Don’t they have a captcha system?

d3r

It’s seems to be getting worse. I just signed in and I see about 20 of them in recent posts. Can something be done?
Maybe prevent posts with Chinese characters from being instantly posted since most of the spam are not in English.