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It's like graffiti. If you don take action and clean it up in time it will attract more vandals.
This problem is getting out of hand IMO. I suggest to use some throttling mechanism for new users. Give new users a limit of 1 or 2 posts an hour with a maximum of 6 to 8 a day until they are verified.
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Other than 89c51 (whoops, and mjg59) there might be a useful pattern here -- most of the spambots seem to have 2 or more numbers in the username (presumably randomly generated to avoid collisions with existing users ?) while real users do not. Wondering if there's an easy filtering option here to flag new users with spambot-like names for a bit of oversight on the first few posts ?Last edited by bridgman; 14 December 2011, 09:17 AM.Test signature
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