The constant stream of spammers- maybe add a captcha for registration?
I feel like I report at least 1-2 a day that look like bots that just copy and paste bits from a thread and add those .gif links. I just checked and there is no captchas or anything to prove you are human to register- seems simple enough to add right?
There’s plenty of captcha libaries to break existing captcha systems.
Instead, do what I did over at the proton forum long time ago when we were flooded with spammers. I just added a simple additional question as part of registration such as: What is 2 + 2. That stopped the auto-registration. Won’t stop hired guns as spammers, active moderation is the only way to get rid of those.
Yep. Or if nothing else, type this word backwards: cat. That’s what I did over at the Proton forums. I’ve seen actually forums where to enter it, let’s say a classic vinyl forum, you have to answer a question such as What Beatles LP has Paperback Writer? It’s a trick question as it was released on a single between Rubber Soul and Revolver so the answer check requires moderation but I was impressed by such a qualifier.
Well as mentioned, things are happening in the batcave regarding this. most of the mods will respond to several spam reports a day, a lot of the bots the members wont see as their posts remain moderated so we can pick them off easily. It does get frustrating though.