SurprisedPikachuBob3
Farmer
Is there any way to add a filter to the forums as we seem to be in a major wave of incursions of spam.
99! you are only missing 52 then you can say you have caught them all!LOL I'm ignoring 99 Spambots here! Who'll be #100? Should I do something special? I need to think of a Very SpecialBlossouh, yeah... meme with everyone's Spamname on it. Hmmm...
It has seemed to work which is great!To clear up some things:
- Registration already requires a CAPTCHA and we legit have so many words blocked that these bots like to use, seriously pulling my hair out here
- I know the spam is really annoying ): it annoys us too and it's been really bad lately. We're looking into how we can prevent it more
- If you see a wave of spam, reporting the account and then blocking them will prevent you from seeing their messages until we take care of it! We try to take care of things ASAP but sometimes they've posted at tricky times
For now, I've set registrations to be manually approved by us since looking at the list, it's pretty much mostly spambots joining right now; actual users are at a much more casual rate and are very easy to spot. Spambots typically have specific types of emails and usernames, so it's unlikely a real user will be caught in the sauce (but if they are, I can approve their registration and they can continue on normally)
I'll let the process be more automated once spam calms down again since it theoretically should eventually