Spam Reduction

[barnee]

@general-6-stars thats without Nationalistic Advantages

[Panther]

@barnee said in Spam Reduction:

37 notifications is a whole new level. @djensen can you do anything ? Do we need to switch to keys instead of passwords ?

Not sure if that’s possible with nodebb but the current spam rate makes the site basically unusable

Very easy to remove, but a pain indeed.

However, the problem is not about passwords. Neither about account hijacking.
A key is nothing else than a (very) long password (file) … so what would be the benefit?
Even 2FA with a Yubikey or other items wouldn’t help here.
As long as we can’t look into account creators intentions we could only block account creation itself.
That would keep out “good” users, too. Or we could approve postings before being published - while there is not enough manpower to do this 24-7.

But indeed, maybe @djensen has some other ideas of how to deal with it.

[Imperious Leader]

@panther Membership signup should include a battery of questions that most noobs would know about A&A. Rules, History, Unit stats, etc. this would destroy it to zero

[barnee]

@imperious-leader that seems a good idea. If you can’t pass the test you can ask for your registration to be reviewed. I would think it’d be easy enough to tell if it was a bot then but …

[djensen]

I’ll start by updating the forum software this weekend. I don’t think that will do it but it’s a start.

One option, which I would not like, is to require a reputation of 1 in order to post something. Then only allowing new folks to post in the “introduce yourself” thread.

[barnee]

@djensen said in Spam Reduction:

One option, which I would not like, is to require a reputation of 1 in order to post something.

yea that might end up being a necessary evil. it’s why i always try to upvote new members. Kinda my way of saying hello. That and I think you cant post links or images without a few ?

[djensen]

I enabled Stop Forum Spam. We’ll see how well it works.

[captainwalker]

@djensen apparently not very well

Moderator’s edit: removed dead link

[General 6 Stars]

Seems to be working now

edit: Scrap that

[djensen]

I’m confused. Did it work or not?

Also, are folks reporting the spam because I’m not getting any notifications about it.

[barnee]

@djensen I’m seeing 2 right now

the 37 was a bit extreme the other night/day

[General 6 Stars]

I got 2 today about 6 hours ago. Same thing barnee posted in pic

[barnee]

@general-6-stars sometimes it’s good to be popular.

Other times … not so much :grin: :grin: :grin:

[djensen]

It’s about $100 to enable Akismet for spam filtering.

I really wish NodeBB has some basic features like posting limits for new users/IP addresses. No posting links until a certain reputation and so on.

I’ll see what I get after the upgrade but it looks like there may not be any other option except Akismet.