Hey @Plarium representative!
Have you had a look at the Game Discussion forum lately? There's 9.5! (nine and a half!!!!) pages of chinese spam bot topics, pretty much all of them dating from today (2019-07-09) - Are you ever going to address these issues? For us players, it doesn't feel that way (seeing that also past page 9, there's more of this sh**...).
Yours sincerely,
a very annoyed forum user.
It shouldn't be too hard to actually block keywords like RACC55.com or MA892.net. Starting off with that and in addition do some "I am no robot" stuff, like guessing pictures etc to keep those bot shit heads out of this forum.
Greetings
*usersYours sincerely,
a very annoyed forum user.
Hey there.
bump from page 6!!
This gets out of hand every single day. maybe think about a fix like:
when you make a account just take posting away until u make 5 or so replies. then none of these spammers get on the main page. because if they spam 5 replies u can check it and ban before this shit takes over everything!!!
bye :)
Like i mention in my post , now as you said accidentally you could banning some one instead of real spam , i have been banned on my main account for spam apparently , just by making 4 posts ? , obviously me and mr Admin have a different way of understanding spam . However mr Admin dont even answer for my msg for 4 days now.Hey there.
We're handling the situation right now. Sadly, these do not seem to be bots, but rather actual people - at least according to what I've been told. We are looking for other options to ensure the forum remains clean of spam without accidentally banning real players.
Marius said:
Hey there.
We're handling the situation right now. Sadly, these do not seem to be bots, but rather actual people - at least according to what I've been told. We are looking for other options to ensure the forum remains clean of spam without accidentally banning real players.
How is CAPTCHA not solving the problem??? Are you saying they are real people because they are fulfilling CAPTCHA and still ending up on here?
I am pretty well versed in computer programming. All you guys need to do is have your forum pick out certain keywords to filter threads from being posted, or certain keywords being used in conjunction with one another. I am sure there are some frequently used keywords, like "sale" "selling" "buy" "accounts" or something along those lines.
There are 1,5-2k messages on the forum per week and hundreds of threads, many of the posts are not in appropriate threads - we cannot answer every individual post. If you are talking about a forum ban, contact one of the moderators on Discord. They will review the matter and either resolve it or bring it to our attention. If you are talking about the game, it has nothing to do with this thread, my posts, or anything on the forum - you need to contact Support.Like i mention in my post , now as you said accidentally you could banning some one instead of real spam , i have been banned on my main account for spam apparently , just by making 4 posts ? , obviously me and mr Admin have a different way of understanding spam . However mr Admin dont even answer for my msg for 4 days now.
Just make the topics have To be english only on this side so they either have To switch up or leave, is a very easy solution To try it out.JustMe said:There are 1,5-2k messages on the forum per week and hundreds of threads, many of the posts are not in appropriate threads - we cannot answer every individual post. If you are talking about a forum ban, contact one of the moderators on Discord. They will review the matter and either resolve it or bring it to our attention. If you are talking about the game, it has nothing to do with this thread, my posts, or anything on the forum - you need to contact Support.Like i mention in my post , now as you said accidentally you could banning some one instead of real spam , i have been banned on my main account for spam apparently , just by making 4 posts ? , obviously me and mr Admin have a different way of understanding spam . However mr Admin dont even answer for my msg for 4 days now.
Unironically, I've suggested a similar solution as a temporary fix about an hour ago. Let's hope something like this can be achieved. Neither moderators nor Community Managers are having fun plowing through the spam either, you can trust me on that.Just make the topics have To be english only on this side so they either have To switch up or leave, is a very easy solution To try it out.
MARIUS, If I might share some suggestion about tackling this problem if you have dedicated developers for this forum CMS that is.
Revise your registration system.
First of require a confirmation mail link to be clicked before a visitor is allowed to act like a user on the forum. It also creates a digital papertrail that might help in reporting the spammers to any providers. It is childsplay right now to create a robot form to make hundreds of legitimate looking accounts that could post like a hive on this board.
Second create a formfield that acts as honeypot at the top most part of the registration form. Hide this formfield with inline CSS and name the field something bots tend to use like email-1 or name-1
When the formfield is filled in and the registration form is submitted either redirect the user to a script that ban's the IP, unique identifier for 24 hours or If that is not possible due to server resource limitation redirect the input to a page that simply drops the action thus blackhole routing the bot.
That should should mitigate a lot more spam than recaptcha v2/3 if correctly implemented.
Regarding human generated spam the only way to combat that I found is delaying the messages by greylisting based on IP reputation and previous DB entries and if possible aplying Bayes rule. Furthermore it requires auditing regulary.
Though in my experience human generated spam is far more rare than most people think.
Hey there! Got some interesting ideas there and I'll pass them along, thank you. I've actually suggested the confirmation email as well when reporting the issue. So far I've no idea what will be implemented though. But I know there should be something with the upcoming forum update.MARIUS, If I might share some suggestion about tackling this problem if you have dedicated developers for this forum CMS that is.
Revise your registration system.
First of require a confirmation mail link to be clicked before a visitor is allowed to act like a user on the forum. It also creates a digital papertrail that might help in reporting the spammers to any providers. It is childsplay right now to create a robot form to make hundreds of legitimate looking accounts that could post like a hive on this board.
Second create a formfield that acts as honeypot at the top most part of the registration form. Hide this formfield with inline CSS and name the field something bots tend to use like email-1 or name-1
When the formfield is filled in and the registration form is submitted either redirect the user to a script that ban's the IP, unique identifier for 24 hours or If that is not possible due to server resource limitation redirect the input to a page that simply drops the action thus blackhole routing the bot.
That should should mitigate a lot more spam than recaptcha v2/3 if correctly implemented.
Regarding human generated spam the only way to combat that I found is delaying the messages by greylisting based on IP reputation and previous DB entries and if possible aplying Bayes rule. Furthermore it requires auditing regulary.
Though in my experience human generated spam is far more rare than most people think.
You are welcome these things are always a challenge.
While the stakeholders discuss what has to be done you might want to implement a temporary word block on "*racc*com*"
That should slow the flow until more permanent measures are implemented. Or they start advertising different services offcourse.
Best of luck with the cleanup, mitigation.
