Bots these days

[Buufreak]

I swear I feel like I'm seeing a scam/spam bot at least once a day lately. Can anything be done to help keep them out in general? Maybe like a captcha when signing up?

[OracleofWuffing]

I just logged out and checked, there already is a Captcha when one tries to register for an account. Multiple, in practice. Unfortunately, that whole field of programming is an arms race and just never works as well as desired.

Not gonna lie, I'm curious if bot activity is also contributing to the forum availability issues. I know bots usually don't load all the page resources- well, if they're programmed right- but who knows what they're all doing other than spamming things up.

Guess we'll just continue reporting them as they come in for now.

[Roland St. Jude]

Sheriff: Yes, report them when you see them. Once per account is sufficient. Thanks!

[Peelee]

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