Rise of the Spambots

Seghast

Member since: 2007
Location
TN

It's great to be able to look at the forums again and not see "You cannot add new posts", which will hopefully translate to some life being breathed into this site once again, but this also means the spambots are returning... Is there a way we can stop this without cracking down on everyone? Maybe all new accounts are subjected to a probationary period where any and all posts have to be approved before they appear on the site and after a couple of weeks of REAL posts, we can lift the probation and let them post at will? 

Anyway, I love seeing the forums usable again and I'm awaiting the inevitable tsunami of Baby Yoda art.

Xanamiar

Looks like the site was locked down to keep the bots at bay, I unlocked them for the time being *since I have time to kill them* I'll ban the accounts as they post.

Xanamiar

So, Current situation. Anyone who has been authorized can make a new post. These will be deleted if spam bots create them. I'm blocking any user that has a webpage in their profile **I looked through most of them and found that they were all bot profiles** If I've blocked someone who is real, first .. Sorry.. secondly, please send me a message to let me know your user name and I'll unblock it. All comments are in a preapproval phase. If you make a comment and do not see it, this is why. I will try to approve comments at least once a day.