Other fora have developed ways of combatting bots; captchas, browser cookies, ips, etc.
Make it relatively easy for humans to enter but harder to make a mess, have algorithms that look for accounts whose voting patterns correlate but who never post anything, etc. Have a report spam button. Use blacklisting of emails and ips.
Why gated entry?
Other fora have developed ways of combatting bots; captchas, browser cookies, ips, etc.
Make it relatively easy for humans to enter but harder to make a mess, have algorithms that look for accounts whose voting patterns correlate but who never post anything, etc. Have a report spam button. Use blacklisting of emails and ips.
We have about one bot a month, I deal with that pretty easily. We have one troll every day, causing damage, causing special focus.
God that guy STILL ….