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Quote from: XinXan on May 11, 2015, 05:39:00 AM

Is there any way to block the registration from 1 PC, like no matter what IP it has if its the same PC it gets blocked and you cant register more accounts? Or is that impsossible.

IP ban can happen but registrations shouldn't be blocked if there is an account from that IP. But there should a restriction for number of registrations per IP per day.

Quote from: XinXan on May 11, 2015, 05:39:00 AM

And what is the patrol thing?

See the link. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol

It is a page for patrollers(aka staffs) for moderating newbies' posts.

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Quote from: Muhammed Zakir on May 11, 2015, 05:32:46 AM

Quote from: XinXan on May 11, 2015, 05:18:42 AM

Where have you seen these spambots? I havent seen any lately honestly.

I saw spams from spambot(s) even in Meta. You can see many if you closely watch Patrol page.

Quote from: XinXan on May 11, 2015, 05:18:42 AM

When you register you need to provide your email aswell right? Doesnt that slow the bots already?

It won't.

Quote from: XinXan on May 11, 2015, 05:18:42 AM

The only effective way of dealing with this would be some way of verification, like mobile phone verification but i know it wont happen.

A mobile or similar verifications shouldn't be implemented.

Quote from: NLNico on May 11, 2015, 05:30:50 AM

Just remember to always press that little "REPORT TO MODERATOR" link in right bottom. Generally deleted after few minutes of reporting.

Always using but we need a way to slowdown registration.

Is there any way to block the registration from 1 PC, like no matter what IP it has if its the same PC it gets blocked and you cant register more accounts? Or is that impsossible.

And what is the patrol thing?

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Quote from: XinXan on May 11, 2015, 05:18:42 AM

Where have you seen these spambots? I havent seen any lately honestly.

I saw spams from spambot(s) even in Meta. You can see many if you closely watch Patrol page.

Quote from: XinXan on May 11, 2015, 05:18:42 AM

When you register you need to provide your email aswell right? Doesnt that slow the bots already?

It won't.

Quote from: XinXan on May 11, 2015, 05:18:42 AM

The only effective way of dealing with this would be some way of verification, like mobile phone verification but i know it wont happen.

A mobile or similar verifications shouldn't be implemented.

Quote from: NLNico on May 11, 2015, 05:30:50 AM

Just remember to always press that little "REPORT TO MODERATOR" link in right bottom. Generally deleted after few minutes of reporting.

Always using but we need a way to slowdown registration.

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Quote from: XinXan on May 11, 2015, 05:18:42 AM

Where have you seen these spambots? I havent seen any lately honestly. When you register you need to provide your email aswell right? Doesnt that slow the bots already? The only effective way of dealing with this would be some way of verification, like mobile phone verification but i know it wont happen.

You can provide a fake email address and the bots are nuked very fast and usually within minutes so most don't see them. I think a better captcha system should be added and very likely will with the new forum.

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Just remember to always press that little "REPORT TO MODERATOR" link in right bottom. Generally deleted after few minutes of reporting.

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Where have you seen these spambots? I havent seen any lately honestly. When you register you need to provide your email aswell right? Doesnt that slow the bots already? The only effective way of dealing with this would be some way of verification, like mobile phone verification but i know it wont happen.

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Quote from: Muhammed Zakir on May 11, 2015, 03:21:46 AM

Quote from: Quickseller on May 11, 2015, 12:04:26 AM

There already is a captcha when registering.
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Current captcha is very poor IMHO. We should use areyouahuman or reCaptcha.

As long as it's not broken and can be OCR'ed, the forum is ok. When you say poor is it one that can is broken to OCR?

As long as it makes them do it manually or pay a service I would consider capatcha ok. If they have beaten it then yes definitely switch.

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Quote from: Quickseller on May 11, 2015, 12:04:26 AM

There already is a captcha when registering.
-snip-

Current captcha is very poor IMHO. We should use areyouahuman or reCaptcha.

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Quote from: MRKLYE on May 11, 2015, 12:09:55 AM

Quote from: Muhammed Zakir on May 10, 2015, 11:50:07 PM

Hello! Recently I saw many spams from spambots. Bot registrations are high. I think we can reduce it by limiting number of registrations per IP per day and by putting captcha when registering. I know both can be bypassed but I think it can reduce spambots. Any idea and/or suggestions are welcome!

When you have a large forum like this it is nearly impossoble to eliminate all spam bots.. people will always find ways.
I think it boils down to maybe having more moderators patrolling different sub forums and looking for spam bot garbage.
Then maybe go about banning the IP's of those doing such activity and then go on from there.

I could see this being harder then we think on banning. We think about easy to do IP range. But I believe China still has to go through a vpn/other methods I believe. ( http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fbitcointalk.org%2F )

So I do not envy the moderators on looking by IP with forums big base I would imagine quite a few are using some common IP's to get through. But I could be completely wrong I have no numbers to back it up.

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Quote from: Muhammed Zakir on May 10, 2015, 11:50:07 PM

Hello! Recently I saw many spams from spambots. Bot registrations are high. I think we can reduce it by limiting number of registrations per IP per day and by putting captcha when registering. I know both can be bypassed but I think it can reduce spambots. Any idea and/or suggestions are welcome!

When you have a large forum like this it is nearly impossoble to eliminate all spam bots.. people will always find ways.
I think it boils down to maybe having more moderators patrolling different sub forums and looking for spam bot garbage.
Then maybe go about banning the IP's of those doing such activity and then go on from there.

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There already is a captcha when registering.

The forum really needs more patrollers to nuke/take care of all the spambots as after enabling the "patrol" button for only a few hours I have reported probably 5 or 6 spam bots that I found in the patrol function.

One option might be to make it so having an account "nuked" has the same effect as having an account banned when units of evil are calculated (I assume this is not the case currently)

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Hello! Recently I saw many spams from spambots. Bot registrations are high. I think we can reduce it by limiting number of registrations per IP per day and by putting captcha when registering. I know both can be bypassed but I think it can reduce spambots. Any idea and/or suggestions are welcome!

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