search.php?author_id=1833&sr=posts
At least one user appears to be a bot…
The IP address seem to be in Armenia.
The email address is randomly created gmail address so is meaningless.
I’ve not deleted the posts yet, just so that people can get chance to read them, (not that anything interesting was written by the AI)
If anyone suspects any posts to by a Bot, please let me know
[mrmonteith – Thu Sep 14, 2017 4:29 pm] –
I hate to say it but wonder if you need to turn on Captcha verification for posting?
Already tried the standard Captcha and it no longer stops the majority of bots.
I doubt any form of captcha would prevent this, because they are already running an AI system, and someone may be manually doing the registration.
Already tried the standard Captcha and it no longer stops the majority of bots.
I doubt any form of captcha would prevent this, because they are already running an AI system, and someone may be manually doing the registration.
Lovely. Dang AI.
most bots are run by the site owners, with the goal to increase traffic.
I think we will need to start asking people to post to the introductions page before they are allowed to post elsewhere
This seems a very high number, as the forum is totally open to browse and there is no need to register.
I don’t know if this is an abnormally high value.
I know that we have around 200 active members who have logged in over the last 1 or 2 months, but I have not cross referenced how many of these 200 are from that pool of 800+
In case these are spam bot accounts I may need to suspend them and force revalidation.
