nicobie said:Yep! Good job catching all that spam the other day. It's useful to have a Mod in the southern hemisphere to catch problems that happen in the middle of the night for us living up north.
Well it was obviously spam, but the AI they're using does appear to be improving. I reckon it's only a matter of time before AI spam is going to be way too time consuming to distinguish from real posters that happen to be including links.Redsea Rider said:Purely out of morbid curiosity - what type of spam did the cretins attempt to post?
neptronix said:Xenforo has some really cool spam control features in it. Looks like top of the line stuff. Removing spam will be less of the moderator team's job in the future
Yes.neptronix said:Most captcha systems are compromised ( or will be ), so it's not a good form of security to rely on.. and annoying more often than not.
neptronix said:I do believe technologies exist to mostly win the spam war.
I might have a solution for you...depending on how the website is coded. I used a plugin in Firefox called behind the overlay. Very useful to get rid of annoying windows that stay in-front of content until you action them, but don't want to.amberwolf said:There is a financial aid site I tried to get help from that has a captcha on every page, at least once, and the images that come up are often so grainy I can't tell what they are of, so I can't complete the captcha. Even when I do, someitmes the captcha window won't go away, so I can't click on anything on the page and then it times out (and I can't click on the timeout window for additional time because the completed captcha window is in the way!) The only solution their support had for the problem was to start a new application (after having spent hours over days doing the one I'd already gotten 10 out of 13 pages into and being unable to get any farther).
Very interested to hear what this is. I work in IT so will probably understand it.neptronix said:I also have a second better idea that i haven't tested yet that would have most botnet operators running screaming from our site. I have a really good and almost proven way to waste their resources since they're wasting ours.
I do believe technologies exist to mostly win the spam war.
nicobie said:Looks like the govmnt is thinking about changing website legal accountability/liabilities. I don't know if this is a good or bad thing but it's something we, as forum moderators, need to pay attention to.
I don't feel like being sued just because I've allowed a member to sprew a bunch of shit. I know it's not much of a risk for myself, but I don't want to put Justin at risk either.
nicobie said:Good. I would not like this joint to end up like Facebook & Twitter with a bunch of screaming conspiracy wack jobs getting goofy with their keyboards.