My god! The forum today is filled to the brim with them.
Honestly is there like a quota? I am relatively certain that this forum offers them no revenue from those. No one visiting this site is going to click on them and yet here they are. So probably doesn't matter any site will do for them as long as they meet a tracked quota.
I used to visit this site daily now it's once or twice a week and I'm reconsidering that. In the ten plus years I have been here it's never been this bad. Get it together or people are just going to stop coming here.
Unless you are going for the apathetic, uncaring, shithole look that makes people reconsider even coming here. Then congrats, mission accomplished.
Really makes me realize how much Bill and Suzie put into this place. Would hate to see them come back to visit and see this garbage heap.
"You CAN'T buy ships for RL money." - MaxBacon
"classification of games into MMOs is not by rational reasoning" - nariusseldon
Any insights on how it's gotten this bad and/or what the near future holds for this forum?
How many of you are there now with the access to delete these bots now compared to times in the past?
"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”
― Umberto Eco
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?” ― CD PROJEKT RED
Just wanted to pop in to say we do take spammers seriously, but the reality is that we have limited resources for moderation these days. The best thing you can do to help is to flag spammers when you see them and we'll get to them as soon as we can.
We do have limits for new accounts (they are unable to create threads, for example) and we have our flood control settings cranked up to the maximum on the backend, but there's only so much we can automate on this front.
Just wanted to pop in to say we do take spammers seriously, but the reality is that we have limited resources for moderation these days. The best thing you can do to help is to flag spammers when you see them and we'll get to them as soon as we can.
We do have limits for new accounts (they are unable to create threads, for example) and we have our flood control settings cranked up to the maximum on the backend, but there's only so much we can automate on this front.
@MikeB it's not working. We realize that there isn't enough staff to delete the spam posts. That's obvious, because they often stay up indefinitely even when they're reported. The question is, can't you guys add something like a manual picture ID verification process to stop these bots from being created in the first place? Like, where you have to click on all the pics that contain a stop sign? Would these spammers continue to post here if they had to manually verify every account they make?
Every sight I log onto that uses that captcha thing when logging onto account you have to click the images that have things in them like buses and traffic lights etc, some are a series with refreshed images like Rockstars where have to click on a new one that might have popped up. Here all you have to do is click a check box saying I am not a robot. Alot of robots saying they are not robots and getting past the fence here it seems.
Taking the ability to post links is all I'm asking for. That's all that the bots want. Take that ability away (10+ post minimum) and the bots will stop coming here.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse. - FARGIN_WAR
It is really great not to come here and see the front page filled with bots. Definite improvement and might I add it makes you guys look like you actually care. I know you do care and it was resource intensive to get rid of them but damn it was not a good look for some time now.
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Honestly is there like a quota? I am relatively certain that this forum offers them no revenue from those. No one visiting this site is going to click on them and yet here they are. So probably doesn't matter any site will do for them as long as they meet a tracked quota.
"classification of games into MMOs is not by rational reasoning" - nariusseldon
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Any insights on how it's gotten this bad and/or what the near future holds for this forum?
How many of you are there now with the access to delete these bots now compared to times in the past?
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Here all you have to do is click a check box saying I am not a robot. Alot of robots saying they are not robots and getting past the fence here it seems.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR