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#1 Sethre

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Posted 31 January 2017 - 01:26 PM

These bots are making the forums annoying to visit.

 

Is there anything we can do to make the website more 'secure' or harder to make an account or something? Not sure how all that works.

 

Dunno how the rest of you guys feel about the bots, I do tend to get annoyed easily so they probably aren't as big of a deal as I'm perceiving them to be. Just annoying to post something and have several bots spam shitty links everywhere.

 

I also bet it will drive new members away if they see bots everywhere.


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#2 SpleenBeGone

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Posted 31 January 2017 - 02:33 PM

I upgraded the captcha system, seemed to work for a day or so. I'll try a different one tonight. 


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#3 Affray

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Posted 31 January 2017 - 03:22 PM

They are annoying, but this is the first time since I've joined that they are really a problem, at least as far as I've seen.

I doubt they will be a permanent annoyance.


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#4 SpleenBeGone

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Posted 31 January 2017 - 05:16 PM

So I don't want to jinx it, but keycaptcha seems to be working.


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#5 Bowsette

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Posted 31 January 2017 - 05:29 PM

I just ban 'em either way, doesn't really bother me.


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#6 Sethre

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Posted 31 January 2017 - 05:52 PM

I don't have power to ban them so I just get to sit and stare at them which is what annoys me most I think.

 

Hopefully all we have to do is get a good captcha system implemented like Spleen is doing


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#7 Bowsette

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Posted 31 January 2017 - 06:50 PM

If you happen to see any we miss, please hit the 'report' button below their post. That way we can unclutter things.


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#8 Capsicum Annuum

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Posted 31 January 2017 - 06:50 PM

You don't have the power to ban them? I was beginning to think I was the only one on this site who was not a bot or admin.
Is Gol a mod?

The bots used to be ok with me, until the Russians started bombarding us about a month ago. The other bots can stay as far as I'm concerned.

#9 SpleenBeGone

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Posted 31 January 2017 - 08:35 PM

No one knows who all the mods are. Not even me. 


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#10 Sethre

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Posted 31 January 2017 - 08:48 PM

No one knows who all the mods are. Not even me. 

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Posted 31 January 2017 - 10:11 PM

We love our mods here! Put my hand out to the water red, and it leeks.

The bots need to lose horniness and eat some more drug on tacos.



#12 Sethre

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Posted 31 January 2017 - 10:39 PM

What?


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Posted 01 February 2017 - 02:21 AM

True


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#14 Affray

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Posted 01 February 2017 - 08:57 AM

No one knows who all the mods are. Not even me. 

How can the bots predict our moves if we don't even know where they are coming from.

 

Also:

 

We love our mods here!

Put my hand out to the wat

er red, and it leeks.

 

The bots need to lose

horniness and eat some more

drug on tacos. Fin.

 

You just have to look past the nonsense glamour and find the art in it.


It is perfectly acceptable to fear and admire a being you could not possibly understand.


#15 SpleenBeGone

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Posted 01 February 2017 - 09:05 AM

Exactly. It's for security purposes as well. If one of us is compromised by the bot invasion, the rest can fight on. 


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#16 Capsicum Annuum

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Posted 01 February 2017 - 11:44 AM

I don't fully understand what just happened...

#17 Affray

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Posted 01 February 2017 - 12:39 PM

Exactly. It's for security purposes as well. If one of us is compromised by the bot invasion, the rest can fight on. 

Can we call it the Cylon Initiative?

 

 

I don't fully understand what just happened...

Then you must be on the front lines of the good fight.


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#18 SpleenBeGone

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Posted 01 February 2017 - 12:55 PM

I don't see why not. 


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#19 Capsicum Annuum

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Posted 01 February 2017 - 06:05 PM

How can the bots predict our moves if we don't even know where they are coming from.
 
Also:
 
You just have to look past the nonsense glamour and find the art in it.

This is the part I didn't understand. Obviously, I didn't understand the sock puppet, but no one else did either.

#20 Affray

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Posted 01 February 2017 - 08:18 PM

I must have missed the part about sock puppets.


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