Why is there a lot of spam lately?

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Hey there
I noticed that there are different spams from different accounts in the bug report can someone please explain how different accounts say the same thing
Thanks

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We cannot control who signs up to the forum. There is a system bot that captures certain things automatically and that’s generally unseen by the members.
But it’s not foolproof by any means.

So we manage as we can and it’s helped by members reporting the posts so we can delete them. We also have the ability to block the IP addresses too,

Please keep reporting. It’s a never ending cycle we have to deal with. Sometimes we just get on the radar for a while

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Ok thanks.

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Hey there,
Are these spam accounts came from the same IP I tend to flag all of them as they will unlist them.
Would love to hear an update
Thanks.

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Yeah it kinda feels like the forum is under attack by bots

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Not sure what’s going on. We are clearing them and blocking them as quickly as we can. Researching some fixes too. Until then keep reporting them

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Are planning to add a verification system where a real human needs to complete a puzzle or something like that?

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Not sure yet. Need to look at the available options

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I have no idea if this is possible but maybe a 1 hour timer before being able to post when creating account would help to stop someone joining then posting the scam the next second

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We got an announcement about it, these mods did an absolute great job on it, so well done to them!

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As I guess:

Probably they use VPN so any IP blocks won’t really help…

Best option to avoid them will be give delay after creating account for like 2 hours and maybe make some more complicated anti bot verification

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We are at the mercy of the system set up unfortunately. But we’ve put an approval process for now. About all we can do.

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you guys did a good job

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But some dudes like my friend has about 6 accounts in the forum…

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Why 6?

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Maybe we can use the way facebook use, one account only can use one email to register.
Also we can have moderators to approve the post before it upload it, just like the infinite flight forum.

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That’s the question I also want to know

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Post approval is a little tricky on here, we have account approval and that seems to have killed it for now

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