The spambot situation is getting out of hand

[R-F]

What the hell is even going on?

[SandmanXC]

I enjoy (mostly) lurking these forums on a daily basis, but for the bast few days the spambot army hit us hard. Isn't there anything that can be done about it?

[Rossignol]

Working on that at the moment.

[Heister]

Some tool thinks that this forum is a film/tv forum.

@the tool; This is not a film/tv forum.

[Jams O'Donnell]

Unfortunately they're humans and not bots, which makes them a little trickier to eradicate.

[SandmanXC]

Working on that at the moment.

I got a reply from Jim! Completely starstruck :D

[Tikey]

Unfortunately they're humans and not bots, which makes them a little trickier to eradicate.

Damned Robot collaborators. When we purge the bots from this world it'll be their turn.

[squirrel]

That's the reason our posts have to be approved manually to be uploaded for public view?

Edit: oops, i see. Only starting thread requires approval, replying doesn't.

[SMiD]

I got a reply from Jim! Completely starstruck :D

In a thread complaining about bots, you think that's the real Jim?

[Drake Sigar]

Guess they changed things. Have to wait 30 seconds between posts, and some comments have to be approved manually. Not sure what the rules are for the latter, I just replied to a thread and was told my comment had to be approved. It would be faster to send e-mails now methinks.

Edit: Think they're still messing around with the settings as we speak, so we'll see where we end up.

[Jams O'Donnell]

Edit: Think they're still messing around with the settings as we speak, so we'll see where we end up.
The antispam thingy needs to learn. You are helping it train (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WpwmAhho37A#t=185s).

[Smashbox]

Unfortunately they're humans and not bots, which makes them a little trickier to eradicate.

Ironically, you often need to employ robots to eradicate humans.

[Smashbox]

That's the reason our posts have to be approved manually to be uploaded for public view?

Edit: oops, i see. Only starting thread requires approval, replying doesn't.

I've been subject to the 'moderator approval' message several times today.

[renhoelder]

This is a bit odd right now, replied to a thread, it didn't post, ok second go, now it tells me I gotta have 30s between posts...fine, thought the post appeared, but no, tried to reply through "Go Advanced" and now it's up for approval, a bit tedious, but all for the greater good I hope.

[TailSwallower]

Unfortunately they're humans and not bots, which makes them a little trickier to eradicate.

Yeah, when someone else mentioned M-Turk the other day it sounded like they'd probably hit the nail on the head.

[Kadayi]

Guess they changed things. Have to wait 30 seconds between posts, and some comments have to be approved manually. Not sure what the rules are for the latter, I just replied to a thread and was told my comment had to be approved. It would be faster to send e-mails now methinks.

Edit: Think they're still messing around with the settings as we speak, so we'll see where we end up.

Same thing earlier on as well.

[Althea]

That 30s thing has been around for a short while as far as I can tell.