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user-inactivated  ·  3330 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: &%$#!@^&!

Oh? What are the deets?





mk  ·  3330 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nothing too exciting. Over the weekend, we rolled out a captcha on account creation. However, some bots that previously made accounts that had been inactive for a few days came back with a vengeance and we didn't have the tools in place to quickly put them down. We basically made a one stop solution for us to deal with them.

It's actually crazy that we got this far without bots becoming a real issue.

user-inactivated  ·  3330 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's great to hear. I'm sorry you guys all had to go through this ordeal, but hopefully you can rest easy now.

mk  ·  3330 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Here's hoping. Now we just need to sweep up the mess they left.