for he's a jolly good... bot?!?

[Diortem]

I dunno, but the enlisted birthdays at the bottom of the forum look really silly today. I never even heard of those 'people'. Happy birthday "Frudonindzya" if that is even decently pronounceable. XD

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But seriously, what's going on here? Is the forum flooded with bots these days? Or can't the bots that have been banned be removed from the forum entirely?

[Money]

Is the forum flooded with bots these days?

Yes

[Argumentable]

I don't have the ability to remove them entirely

[limepie20]

Yeah even when they are permabanned, their birthday still shows up and there a like a million bots. Someone should go through the ban list and delete all the spambots.

[BTYM]

Why isn't there a verification question? And if it was raocow/talkhaus specific, bots wouldn't know how to answer it, and couldn't register.

"Complete the quote: Hey there, everyone, this is ______"

[Argumentable]

I've proposed a couple things but nobody seems to care

[limepie20]

I do.

[Argumentable]

Nobody who can actually implement them

[BTYM]

Well that's nobody

because raocow probably doesn't know how and TLs4 doesn't exist

[Dollop of Mayo]

Do a mutiny and take over the ship/forum

[TLs4]

Well that's nobody

because raocow probably doesn't know how and TLs4 doesn't exist

all accounts now have to be approved by admins before they're created, should help a bit!

[BTYM]

Thanks :D

[Argumentable]

In other words: no new accounts

[BTYM]

In other words: no new accounts

That's even better than no bots, right

[limepie20]

Both are pretty good, actually.

[Bean]

all accounts now have to be approved by admins before they're created, should help a bit!

Thank you. I feel like I've reported over 100 of those spam posts this summer, and with all the late nights I've been on here at times, that might not be so far off.

[GanonTEK]

In other words: no new accounts

All the cool people are here already

(ok maybe not :3)

[ultratowel112]

all accounts now have to be approved by admins before they're created, should help a bit!

Thank you. I feel like I've reported over 100 of those spam posts this summer, and with all the late nights I've been on here at times, that might not be so far off.

I'm not sure how many I got, but it was enough that Argu told me I didn't have to report every spambot post - one per bot is enough.

[Argumentable]

True story, I never read any spambot report, I just saw they were reported and spambots then did my thing (except that time that every post in a thread was reported)

[Money]

True story, I never read any spambot report, I just saw they were reported and spambots then did my thing (except that time that every post in a thread was reported)

aww, but I worked hard on them

[Argumentable]

This post has the only purpose to advertise for a website or another product.

Does anybody actually pick to be notified if something happens with their reports cause usually I either just close them first or delete the post (which in turn deletes the report)

[Bean]

This post has the only purpose to advertise for a website or another product.

Does anybody actually pick to be notified if something happens with their reports cause usually I either just close them first or delete the post (which in turn deletes the report)

Well, it's set to "Yes" by default, so I'm sure I've done that a few times by mistake. Still, that answers the question on the very last one I did where I asked if you even read any additional info when I put that down in the box.

[limepie20]

Spambots are pretty easy to catch. Just look for the new person with a weird name.

[ultratowel112]

Does anybody actually pick to be notified if something happens with their reports cause usually I either just close them first or delete the post (which in turn deletes the report)

I don't change it off of yes. I wrote short messages to you guys (the mods/admin/rao), but I never got a reply.

Spambots are pretty easy to catch. Just look for the new person with a weird name.

Although that works 95% of the time, it is more accurate if it is also their birthday and they have a non-location as their location (such as "fisting girls").

[limepie20]

Yeah but I mean really fast. It's like you come on talkhaus and first thing you see is the last post in let's play was by ViagraCocaine.