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Community => General => Topic started by: schlumpf on October 23, 2014, 11:53:34 am

Title: We have been mass-deleting spam bots. Hopefully only them.
Post by: schlumpf on October 23, 2014, 11:53:34 am

We have deleted several thousand spam bot accounts. We hope that we did not hit anyone legitimate. People with posts should not be hit. People without posts may be hit if not being active this year. Also, you may be randomly hit by a bad heuristic.

If this is the case, I'm terribly sorry. Please notify us of that.

The point where we had multiple times more users than posts was hit long ago and something had to be done.

Title: Re: We have been mass-deleting spam bots. Hopefully only the
Post by: Chase on October 25, 2014, 02:00:00 am

I don't remember my sign up, but don't you guys have a captcha?

Title: Re: We have been mass-deleting spam bots. Hopefully only the
Post by: schlumpf on October 25, 2014, 10:55:38 am

We do, but that doesn't change things.

Title: Re: We have been mass-deleting spam bots. Hopefully only the
Post by: Jøk3r on October 25, 2014, 11:18:45 am

But thanks schlumpf for you work.

Title: Re: We have been mass-deleting spam bots. Hopefully only the
Post by: Milly on October 25, 2014, 12:26:25 pm

Death to the spam bots!

Title: Re: We have been mass-deleting spam bots. Hopefully only the
Post by: Selaya on October 27, 2014, 08:22:33 pm

Custom captchas (like 'What does .dbc stand for?' [Database Client], 'What`s the community-made modding tool?' [Noggit], et cetera) tend to work pretty well for smaller niche communities.
At the very least, that`s my experience.

<3, Sela

Title: Re: We have been mass-deleting spam bots. Hopefully only the
Post by: Steff on October 28, 2014, 07:10:03 am

Do not work.  As the spambots are china real people.  We had thks already for some weeks.  Lead to newcommers are nkt able to register.

Title: Re: We have been mass-deleting spam bots. Hopefully only the
Post by: Alastor on October 28, 2014, 12:10:25 pm

Or we can use some sort of Limiting too

- after registration you cant post anything - ( duration - 20 min. )


for example ... something similar is normal at wow server ...
"until you will be lvl 10 you cant join world chat"

Title: Re: We have been mass-deleting spam bots. Hopefully only the
Post by: schlumpf on October 28, 2014, 12:21:19 pm

They register and use accounts with months of not even activating or logging in. Why do you think I was able to delete several thousand accounts with not a single post, but knowing it is a bot? Actual posts are somewhat rare:

Quote

[23/Oct/2014:19:22:27] 194477 (instig): jordan
[… 131 other posts by 16 accounts]
[28/Oct/2014:09:51:34] 189736 (xstesternin): http:// (http://" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;), www. (http://www." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;), .com, ugg boots, outlet, store, canada, therapy, shoes, uggs, united states

During that time way more than 16 accounts registered.

This is more of a avoid-registration/delete-bot-accounts issue than a spam issue.

Title: Re: We have been mass-deleting spam bots. Hopefully only the
Post by: schlumpf on October 28, 2014, 12:27:25 pm

Please also note that of those 16 accounts, 4 have been legit users.

Title: Re: We have been mass-deleting spam bots. Hopefully only the
Post by: Amaroth on February 05, 2017, 10:02:04 am

Thats what I call being trolled.