Post Approval in the OT Forum

[WildSimba]

[quote="Moka"]@Flip: Yes, it would be annoying for new members to have to wait for their post to be approved. Plus, by the time their post gets approved, the discussion may have moved on, making their reply seem out of place.

@Snowy: The abasoove are just some of the reasons why a post queue isn't enabled everywhere, if that's what you were suggesting.[/quote]

Not to sound stupid, but... what is a Abasoove?

[Moka]

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I'm still getting used to this phone and the auto word suggest thing. Lol.

[WildSimba]

Oh, okay dude. Sorry, I didn't understand if you were using one of your usual technecal words I had never heard of.

Anyways, I still agree with snowy on having to get the TOPICS approved.

[SnowyCheetah]

lol Moka I went through the same thing when I first got my iPod, and still do every so often.

[FlipMode]

[quote="SnowyCheetah"]No no no, I was only suggesting that there be a queue for new threads in the OT fictions forum only.[/quote]

But it is not just the OT Fictions, there is one in every other forum at the time of writing this, I even saw one in one of the member dens once 0.0.

I dunno I just think there needs to be a way to prevent bots from even registering, what about a TLK question upon registering or something? And how are they even getting pass the image verifier?
The biggest problem with them is not even that they are advertising, but what they are advertising... Music ones are not too bad, I mean it would not even be such a problem if they were not advertising gambling, or dildos o.0.

[Moka]

Well, that's the problem, Flip. The bots are smart enough to get past all the spam bot countermeasures I've put in place, including a TLK question. When a bot encounters a question like that, some can even put the question into Google and grab the answer. And spam bot programmers work very hard to make them good enough to beat the reCAPTCHA and other antibot tools. And some spam bots are actually humans paid to go to forums and advertise a product.

Getting post approval set up for just topics wouldn't work because many bots make new topics and replies.

The best thing to do is for me to set up more advanced antibot tools and for members to help us by reporting spam when they see it.

[Eli_Ayase]

Maybe you guys need to put on all topics because the spammers can post in all kinds of topics i kinda dunno.

[SnowyCheetah]

Maybe, Moka, you should ban their IP's instead of just deleting them. Then they'll at least have to pay for proxies. And perhaps, there is a mod somewhere that will automatically ban IP's that are detected to be a proxy?

[TheIvanMuse]

Spammers are always IP banned before being deleted,at least on my account.

[SnowyCheetah]

Well we need a way to automate the proxy-banning process I guess, then.