Possible way to cut down on the spambots?

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Possible way to cut down on the spambots?

Post by SpiegelGeist » February 19th, 2022, 9:00 pm

Another forum I frequent uses a one time fee of 10 bucks to keep out spambots and just general troublemakers, so would a one time 5 or 10 dollar fee for forum membership possibly work?

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Post by Shadow » February 20th, 2022, 10:42 am

Yeah, that could possibly work but it's frustrating when you need to pay to join a forum to get or find information. The fundamental basis of the Internet was it was designed for freedom of speech and public documentation.

I'm sure there is an alternative way to handle spambots. I just need perhaps some advice or help from a web consultant. At the moment I use CloudFlare to route the DNS (which gives me the CloudFlare proxy). The forums use IP tokening to see where users connect from, but there's an issue - the IP addresses which are logged are always CloudFlare IP's so anti-spam services cannot prevent the spam correctly. At the moment I am using 'StopForumSpam'.
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Post by SpiegelGeist » February 28th, 2022, 11:17 am

Shadow wrote: February 20th, 2022, 10:42 am Yeah, that could possibly work but it's frustrating when you need to pay to join a forum to get or find information. The fundamental basis of the Internet was it was designed for freedom of speech and public documentation.

I'm sure there is an alternative way to handle spambots. I just need perhaps some advice or help from a web consultant. At the moment I use CloudFlare to route the DNS (which gives me the CloudFlare proxy). The forums use IP tokening to see where users connect from, but there's an issue - the IP addresses which are logged are always CloudFlare IP's so anti-spam services cannot prevent the spam correctly. At the moment I am using 'StopForumSpam'.
Hopefully there is another way, but if not, asking for a small one time fee really does work wonders. Also keeps out trolls, cause most people aren't willing to risk some cash to shitpost.

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