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Well just as I find myself about to leave I notice a ton of porn linking from bots/an annoying user who thinks he's funny. >sigh< And so it begins. . .
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Bots - they've come
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yeah its very annoying.. I banned the users and archian deleted the topics
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Yes, they're back. Any suggestions on how to get rid of them (blocking new ones)? You had a rather good (and funny) idea actually, Ralle, which could work (http://forums.hiveworkshop.com/showthread.php?t=6694#post64460). Add the field to the registration form and then add a note to the rules displayed when you register reading somewhat like this; "Attention! Due to previous bot problems, we've added an extra field called Bot Filter, in which you have to write the text I am not a bot. Thank you for understanding." Any good?
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sounds like a good idea imo.
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I've been getting major bot spam recently, on another forum I take care of. All of it goes to a private locked forum for review and IP gathering.
This is everything it's had put in it over the past two days:
And we even have authimage on our registration forms!
This is everything it's had put in it over the past two days:
And we even have authimage on our registration forms!
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Well, somehow the bots seem to be able to make it through the CAPTCHA. I just wonder how? I mean, it's designed to stop all bots.
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Ok well as Ralle is offline and Archian won't be able to do anything that I can't i'll take some tempoary action against this bots.
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Time to erase these bots's asses! 
Tough me and ralle have been fightning them for some time, dont make us look inactive!
You're not alone in this fight
Tough me and ralle have been fightning them for some time, dont make us look inactive!
You're not alone in this fight
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Look, why don't we go with the idea of an invisible field in registration that if you type in it insta-bans you?
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well. I have heard that bots cant register.. its someone who register for the bots and let them login to spam.. so it would be better just to approve new users.
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Ladies and Gentlemen! The war on bots has begun!
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Indeed it has and the Hive Workshop and its members are foresworn to destroy th bot menace if it means actually thinking up of inventive registration processes to stump them.
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