Bots - they've come

[Deckboy]

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. . .

 

[Ralle]

yeah its very annoying.. I banned the users and archian deleted the topics

 

[VictorOfSweden]

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?

 

[TheNisse]

sounds like a good idea imo.

 

[The_Taxidermist]

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!

 

[VictorOfSweden]

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.

 

[Bob27]

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.

 

[Archian]

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

 

[Shados]

Look, why don't we go with the idea of an invisible field in registration that if you type in it insta-bans you?

 

[Ralle]

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.

 

[Healingpoison]

Ladies and Gentlemen! The war on bots has begun!

 

[brad.dude03]

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.