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mk  ·  1611 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: PSA regarding user bans

It's almost always just SEO spam. I think about a year ago I banned a user who's first comment was some Nazi drivel.





goobster  ·  1610 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So I was thinking about SEO spam, and you don't actually need to DO anything about it, do you? It shows up, we all mute them, and ... their posts fade off into oblivion, don't they? They never generate hits or links. We hubskites don't see them. So they really just take up a couple k in the server database, don't they?

Do you need to actually DO anything? Or does letting them just wither into oblivion suffice?

mk  ·  1608 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The bots actually got out of hand for a bit, creating accounts like crazy once they overcame the image captcha. Our homebrew captcha seemed to do the trick, and I’d like to ease up in the new post restrictions, if we can get away with it.