Hey, friends! We’re seeing an influx of new accounts that appear to be bots. To halt this a little, I’ve turned off the ability to register a new account. We’re going to keep it locked up for the next 6 hours and turn it back on.
If you need assistance and cannot register for a new account, you are more than welcome to wait for the ability to be re-enabled or head over to our Discord server for some more immediate help.
Appreciate the understanding! I’ll update this/remove the pin once things are reverted.
Missy - Does the forum software have banned words/phrases or regex expressions? I reported three of these bot posts this morning, and two of them had easily-filterable wording that would have flagged them immediately…
We do! We enabled it for a couple that have been sneaking in, but word filtering can sometimes overtrigger. I wish there were more tools (in general) out there already to help with this stuff. /sigh
I also flagged a lot of them.
It seems they all was posted with a generic topic and body, but within the first minute they replaced the title and body.
I do not think it’s bots since I could see them type the second post in the topic.
If it was a bot then it would be a prewritten post that would just appear.
Make sure the filter is on when you edit a post also.
Because they first posted something then edited I would assume they did this because they have to do this to get around the filter
