SPAM! How Do We Stop It?

[jonoyong]

I tried and get the spam cleaned up ASAP but fantastic suggestions guys, will revert to Boss and see what he says yeah?

 

[OakleyBoss]

Working on a tighter solution that should stop a decent amount of spam.

 

[nlgrav182]

Just spitballing, but is there any sort of security that puts bots in their own do-loop to never post anything? In other words:

Registration process, info entered
Captcha - if answered in under 2 seconds, odds are bot. If answered in more than 2 seconds, real person.
If answered <2s, redirect to a page of never-ending approvals or email verifications or something.

Their accounts would never activate because they'd be flawed by their own abilities.

 

[OakleyBoss]

Just spitballing, but is there any sort of security that puts bots in their own do-loop to never post anything? In other words:

Registration process, info entered
Captcha - if answered in under 2 seconds, odds are bot. If answered in more than 2 seconds, real person.
If answered <2s, redirect to a page of never-ending approvals or email verifications or something.

Their accounts would never activate because they'd be flawed by their own abilities.

Yeah there is such a setting in place, so if a bot fills the registration in X seconds, it will auto reject them. Also we recently added a stop word list, so if a spam bot attempts to post about certain products(I'm sure you can guess which ones), it will send the post for moderation. This way if it just happens to trigger on a non-spam post, we can approve it.