Managing spam posting
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It’s funny that you need reputation to up/down vote a post, but anyone can post anything they want as a newly registered used
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How about a requirement of a reputation of one to make a post? Then just make people post “I have read and agreed to the rules” on the rules post then any one who isn’t a new member can upvote the post, and bingo they have full access
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Jeff Feeling write an awesome module for Drupal called Honeypot. It adds a field to the register page that when it's filled out the system ignores the registration. That field is hidden with CSS so normal people don't see it but the boys fill it out because it's a field. Not sure if NodeBB had anything like that at all though.
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@stacksofplates said in Managing spam posting:
Jeff Feeling write an awesome module for Drupal called Honeypot. It adds a field to the register page that when it's filled out the system ignores the registration. That field is hidden with CSS so normal people don't see it but the boys fill it out because it's a field. Not sure if NodeBB had anything like that at all though.
Sounds like something that could be easily detected, aka avoid, by bots.
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@IRJ said in Managing spam posting:
I think this may be as good of time as any to discuss limiting spam. It's something I haven't really done before other than on WordPress sites which offer many ways to do this.
There are a lot of simple options. @scottalanmiller just needs to pull his head out of his ass on his attitude towards spam accounts.
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@Dashrender said in Managing spam posting:
@stacksofplates said in Managing spam posting:
Jeff Feeling write an awesome module for Drupal called Honeypot. It adds a field to the register page that when it's filled out the system ignores the registration. That field is hidden with CSS so normal people don't see it but the boys fill it out because it's a field. Not sure if NodeBB had anything like that at all though.
Sounds like something that could be easily detected, aka avoid, by bots.
It works really well. You can name the field whatever you want so it's not like it's a default name for every site. It also throws out a registration if it takes longer than the time you define. I think the default is 5 seconds. These methods together catch a ton of bots in my experience.
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@gjacobse said in Managing spam posting:
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@wirestyle22 said in Managing spam posting:
My thought was just giving some trusted people here moderator status so we can just delete it ourselves. there is at least 5 people willing to do this and we're on here all the time
Yeah, it's certainly an option, we know @gjacobse is a moderator, but he seems to be a bit busy and not able to be around as much.
yea - a full time non-NTG job will do that to a person. I do what I can or feel like I need to do when I can.
I wasn't bashing, just making the statement that you are a mod and have been busy
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Maybe they're enjoying the extra traffic. :man_shrugging:
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@Danp said in Managing spam posting:
Maybe they're enjoying the extra traffic. :man_shrugging:
Most definitely. Numbers are numbers.
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