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    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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    Alot of SPAM lately on this forum!

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    • CatoC Offline
      Cato Module Developer
      last edited by

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

      Re: Increase in spam bots

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      • yawnsY Offline
        yawns Moderator @Cato
        last edited by

        @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.

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        • CatoC Offline
          Cato Module Developer
          last edited by

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

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          • yawnsY Offline
            yawns Moderator @Cato
            last edited by

            @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

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            • CatoC Offline
              Cato Module Developer
              last edited by

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

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              • CatoC Offline
                Cato Module Developer
                last edited by

                Over 120 SPAM posts today! Please do something…

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                • yawnsY Offline
                  yawns Moderator @Cato
                  last edited by

                  @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

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                  • Mykle1M Offline
                    Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer
                    last edited by

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

                    Create a working config
                    How to add modules

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                    • cowboysdudeC Offline
                      cowboysdude Module Developer
                      last edited by

                      Don’t they have a captcha system?

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                      • D Offline
                        d3r
                        last edited by 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.

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