They were mostly humans for a while, but I don't think that's true anymore. Either way, it'd be worth it to block the bots if we can.
They were mostly humans for a while, but I don't think that's true anymore. Either way, it'd be worth it to block the bots if we can.
AGN has been wiped/hacked so many times, that right now I'm open to pretty much anything.
I like Saffith's idea, and agree it's worth it to eliminate bots as a problem. Then the focus can be directed to the human spammers. Restricting posts is all I can think of now, but be wary when setting a post count. It could lead to more spam posts made in order to increase the count. I like verification, but seems like a lot of work for the site operators and mods, epescialy for the users who only register to ask a ZC question, then never come back.
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Human bots can't be blocked unless you disable registration full stop. Which of course is counter-active...
I'm not of the belief that most of them *are* human. Those that are will be treated not as a nuisance device, but as voluntary violators (which is what they are.) We'll still ban them, only in this case it'll be a disciplinary action in addition to preventing them from advertising.
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