LegendBegins

New person banned and nuked?

I believe this is due to the anti-spam measures taken/reinstated to try and control the bot situation as it was getting pretty bad. Fortunately I also believe it's an easy fix to unban them, @LegendBegins?

@Yankee

Kuro is correct, we enabled an aggressive anti-spam measure and some benign accounts got caught in the crossfire. All should be sorted.

Account Merge Request (Checking in Again)

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Would I be keeping my posts, and DMs as they are on this account? That would be a must.

@AliceAbigail

Goes back to 'it should,' but because it's not sanctioned functionality, I can't really guarantee anything. Think of it like a prototype that may or may not do what we want it to do.

Bot Detection Thread

I leave for ONE business trip...

>I'm hoping there will be a future update that can curb this, because they're starting to come in droves.

In theory, Cloudflare's antispam should be helping us... =/

I'll try to think up a heuristic on how to detect these guys better. Maybe "if the username and email are just a bunch of random characters, then ban" but that sort of scares me.

Account Merge Request (Checking in Again)

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Dangerous in what manner? I would need to know more about that.

@AliceAbigail

Dangerous in the sense that it's a buried, untested functionality. I glanced at it and it looks like it'd work, but I can't say for certain that there aren't side effects.

Account Merge Request (Checking in Again)

Actually, this might be possible. Dangerous since it's a hidden functionality never actually used, but possible. You open to that risk?

Post deletion request

Thanks for your patience! Done!

Bot Detection Thread

Thank you! @Ohm