A whole lotta bots these days.

[aaradorn]

The forums are plagued with bot's, every time you guys ban one another one makes an account, isn't there a way to stop them? They are incredibly annoying. 

 

I suggest a 2 step authentication when making an account combined with an e-mail verification before you can post anything and a question form when you login for the first time after creating an account aka: What Computer brand starts with a D and ends with ELL, and of course the famous I am not a bot authentication.

[Wauthar]

I don't think it's as bad as it has previously been (really, it has been way worse before).

Mods are doing a good job of acting quickly and removing the spam.

[lewdicrous]

The bots we see are nothing compared to the ones that get blocked before even showing up.

God bless the mods and admins.

[colonel_mortis]

Prior to registration, there is a captcha, email verification, and the details are checked against a database of known slammers from other sites. Of the accounts that get past that, >80% of the spam posts are detected as spam, and blocked, before they are made public. What you see is the tip of the iceberg. 

When you do see spam posts, please do report it as bot spam - with enough reports it will get removed automatically (subject to safeguards), and the automated filters can then be improved to hopefully catch those posts in future. 

[LukeSavenije]

4 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

please do report it as bot spam

not as ads?

[RoseLuck462]

I'm not sure if I've encountered one here.

 

 

[ZXR]

1 minute ago, RoseLuck462 said:

I'm not sure if I've encountered one here.

 

 

Same. Been here for years (on multiple accounts) and never noticed anything "botty" or "spammy". Genuinely a very helpful and safe community.

[Guest]

delete

 

[RoseLuck462]

7 minutes ago, Zeddex said:

Same. Been here for years (on multiple accounts) and never noticed anything "botty" or "spammy". Genuinely a very helpful and safe community.

 

True.

 

What I have encountered are users that post in very broken English as well as poor grammar and bizarre topics like the user whose Dad wouldn't let him build a better Gaming PC when the issue was his slow internet connection.

[lewdicrous]

36 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

not as ads?

I think the "Advertising (except bot spam) or referral links" option is for people who advertise their personal stuff or amazon links that give them some kickback, for example. So only humans.

While "Bot spam" is specific to bots.

[LukeSavenije]

Just now, lewdicrous said:

I think the "Advertising (except bot spam) or referral links" option is for people who advertise their personal stuff or amazon links that give them some kickback, for example.

then i've been doing this wrong for a long time...

[SenKa]

Only big botspam I've seen was the multiple korean accounts posting random clips of news articles in Korean.

[wasab]

1 hour ago, valdyrgramr said:

 

I've encountered a lot over the years and it use to be a huge problem before the filter.  Like every night there would be about 5-10 posts in broken English mixed with Arabic about fridge warranties or psychics.   The last ones were from some Egyptian and Euro bots about embalming fluid for human corpses.  Oh and some were about infomercial grade health bs.

I've seen one selling penis enlargement pills

[PlayStation 2]

You're right, there are a lot of AMD shills here.

Oh, that's not what you meant. Right. There are a decent amount of bots but not even close to what used to be around.

[iamdarkyoshi]

I moderate a couple telegram groups, and even human detection methods aren't perfect

 

Companies that spam stuff actually pay people to sit through captcha, and once they get blocked in some way, they'll just find another way, like changing an IP or email provider.

[UrbanFreestyle]

1 hour ago, RoseLuck462 said:

 

True.

 

What I have encountered are users that post in very broken English as well as poor grammar and bizarre topics like the user whose Dad wouldn't let him build a better Gaming PC when the issue was his slow internet connection.

I remember that particular user! i did have a laugh!

[colonel_mortis]

2 hours ago, LukeSavenije said:

then i've been doing this wrong for a long time...

The whole "except bot spam" part didn't give it away?

[LukeSavenije]

9 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

The whole "except bot spam" part didn't give it away?

not at all... i thought you meant that kind that posts in every topic and category