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Fangames => Help, Suggestions & Feedback => Topic started by: bananaguy12 on October 08, 2015, 10:37:48 AM

Title: Eradicating spambots
Post by: bananaguy12 on October 08, 2015, 10:37:48 AM
I think the kayin forums did this, where your account is deleted if you don't make a post within a week or something. You could do that to get rid of bots. Maybe make a thread for it and tell the person when they create their account.
Title: Re: Re: Spambot Report Thread
Post by: infern0man1 on October 08, 2015, 04:17:54 PM
That wouldn't really work, since there are a fair number of people on here that only lurk and that aren't spambots.
Title: Re: Re: Spambot Report Thread
Post by: Derf on October 08, 2015, 04:31:18 PM
Also I'm sure that was just an idea that was passed around but never implemented, or if it was it was reeled back.
Title: Re: Eradicating spambots
Post by: lawatson on October 08, 2015, 07:44:52 PM
How about generating a random mathematical question or trivia question? With more different possible answers it should be possible to keep out a lot of spambots, and even then if someone doesn't know an answer they can just google it  :atkWaifu:
Title: Re: Eradicating spambots
Post by: Starz0r on October 08, 2015, 09:01:25 PM
I'll write a blog post if everyone is interested in my method of keeping spambots out since it has worked so far. (haven't had a spambot join in 2-3 months.) Though we still have spambots that haven't been deleted yet (around 10K+), and we are still looking to solve it.