LegendBegins

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Make it possible to hide certain statuses of people you disagree with? There's a lot of angst in the status bar recently, including it being from me, but it'd just be a nice feature.

@Neurovoid

We are not currently aware of the work currently being done on Guild features or Mahz's current location in cyberspace (he's very busy), but we'll be sure to let him know when he returns to add new features.

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To end these spambots I suggest a bot detector when signing up an account here. Like one of those hard to see photos with numbers you have to put in. Sorry if you already have this.

@Rai

You are referring to CAPTCHA, which is already implemented on the Guild. It is rather ineffective.

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i'm having a bit of a issue trying to put images into my posts to people. i use the and put the url between but it just shows up as a box and the people i'm discussing with cant see the image either. am i doing something wrong?

@blazeflame13

Yes. You need to assure that the URL you link to contains nothing but an image; in most cases it will hold an extension such as ".png" or ".jpg" or even ".gif" but in rare cases it will be nothing but a string of characters (use Preview to see if it worked). For instance, I can go onto Google images and right click an image to get its URL and paste that into the IMG tags like so:

Myriad Reality

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@Ellri

I believe that tabs should be customizable up to a hard limit. That way, there isn't a need for ambiguity in what they may or may not be used for. Either way, adding a tab for every potential need will become quickly cluttered and difficult to use, so everyone should be wary.

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@Pair of Hearts

For all fairness, the current system does block elementary bots. But unfortunately, complex bots have not been defeated, though I believe they could with a bit of effort.

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Did we ever get the block user Feature ?

@AzazelSlayer

We did not. Mahz is having a difficult time right now with conflicts between Guild development and real life events; the spambots are also giving him plenty of headaches at the moment, but that feature is on the roadmap.

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Since when does the Guild use CloudFlare? Was just redirected to their error page, then their cached version of the site. I don't recall seeing it before, although the Guild has already had its fair share of outages.

@Mateotis

That has been there for over a year.

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The number of mods wont matter. The worse I have ever seen was a site that created a new account every minute. No human can keep up with that. What you have to remember is these are bots, not people. They follow a random program to create accounts and post up links. I think you might be mixed up on what's happening.

Easiest way to explain what is going on is if we think of a Guy that hires a bunch of kids every night to egg a house. You can stop one lot but the next night a new lot will come by. You can scream at the kids but the Guy is just sitting at home watching TV.

@NuttsnBolts

Without significant technological prowess, it would not be simple to bypass Google's Captcha service.

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I suppose that should be the answer. If you can at least check the original location, that will still be beneficial regardless.

Or if anything, have a Moderator that is up at around this time. Because I've been noticing, that around 6 - 7 PM PST, is when the bots start to come into play. At the same time, no other moderator happens to be up here at said time as well. If we can have a moderator be at this time, perhaps it can discourage the person from spamming the guild and force him/her to leave us alone.

@Lmpkio

I would have to have access to the database, or at least the logs. I would also moderate from 9:00 AM to around 2:00 AM CST, had I the permissions. But I do not, so I help as much as I can here in the Dev Journal and pass along any significant information to Mahz.