SPAM! Again!

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SPAM! Again!

I think we need a capcha for registration page with the questions about the game industry!

For example:

"Tesselation is:

1. Polygons multiplier.

2. Programming language.

3. Spicery for the tacos."

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Nah, we have but there were some troubles with it so the doors were open for one day and Russia invaded. This is just the aftermath, but not worries, we'll clean it up

STILL NOT CLEANED UP SPRONY!!!!

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STILL NOT CLEANED UP SPRONY!!!!

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I say just report blatant spam topics and admins will take care of it

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Nah, we have but there were some troubles with it so the doors were open for one day and Russia invaded. This is just the aftermath, but not worries, we'll clean it up

It's not an invasion! the bots are just here on vacation

That's our Chirstmas gift from Russia.

what? you guys didn't click for bitchz?

I'll click a few buttons and make the bad men go away

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what? you guys didn't click for bitchz?

I got that PM too

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I got that PM too

Now I feel discriminated. No spam for me

The chat isn't working either

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Yep, doesnt work for me either.

where am I going to procrastinate now?

we want our chat back!

The latest bot is from Kiev, fucking Ukrainians at it now!

God, is Eastern Europe just comprised of spammers or something? Jesus.

Seriously though, the spammers we're seeing are still ones who signed up during that day or so when the defences were down — I guess that they have a delayed activation thing to try to avoid detection. The amount has definitely lessened but I'll try to do some cleanup by identifying 'sleeper' bots and banning them.

Can't delete all users registered on that day? I think chances of a legit user are incredibly low.

What I've seen out there are captachas that are games or puzzles, they work on the fact that bots don't have AI.

We do have that now, the anti-spam measures seem to be 100% effective, it's just that they stopped working for a day a little while back and the fuckers flooded in.

That seems pretty sensible blackdog, I was going to do something similar but filter down to users with no posts registered around then. I've been very ill over Christmas and not on my computer (using iPad) so I'll sort it out when I feel better. Fortunately the number of bots has become minuscule now.