Mahz

Massive Spambot invasion 4/16/2016

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I'm sure that the system wouldn't flag them as malicious as they're not speed posting either. If it is an automated system, you could set an exemption? Otherwise if its manual, ask the mods to be a little bit wary.

@VKAllen

Right, I was just speaking out loud in regards to my manual cleanup right now. All the spam is starting to condition me to become suspicious of Korean text on the homepage, but some of it is legit!

Massive Spambot invasion 4/16/2016

I'll disable the recaptcha in a bit since it's unnecessary now.

Also, you know, one thing I'm wary of is our legit Korean roleplayers which you can see on the first page of roleplayerguild.com/forums/39-tabletop...

I think it's awesome that we have some non-English roleplays running. I just hope they don't get hurt by the mass spambot cleanup. :(

Massive Spambot invasion 4/16/2016

<Snipped quote by Mahz> Would "I don't do introduction threads. This thread will be ignored from now onwards." constitute for a passable introduction thread?
Seriously, though, I don't think it's a restriction that should stay around, as much as I know there exist (and I have invited onto the site) people whom I know could have proper panic attacks from something as simple as making an introduction thread just anyone can reply to. Does not mean they're bad writers or roleplayers, or should be denied the ability to roleplay with friends.

PMs appear to be back now, though, for all that's worth.

@Shienvien

Yeah, you're right. I was trying to come up with the simplest solution but that one's really not going to work.

I'll think of something better.

Also, I should turn off the recaptcha system now.

Massive Spambot invasion 4/16/2016

The PM dashboard should work again.

I'm now looking into fixing the forum views (the list of topics in each forum).

Massive Spambot invasion 4/16/2016

Oh yeah, another issue is that the forum views will appear blank. The spam is so bad that you have to go back a few pages to see topics.

I'll be fixing that as well.

What a nightmare.

Massive Spambot invasion 4/16/2016

Okay, let me look into the PM system errors.

Edit: Should be fixed now.

Massive Spambot invasion 4/16/2016

I should've done this yesterday, but I disabled registration til we sort out the spambot problem.

Massive Spambot invasion 4/16/2016

Jesus christ. These spambots.

Finishing up the nuke button, but once I deploy it I'll have to immediately start working on a real rate-limit. Something severe in the short-term, like at least requiring newbies to create a Newbie Introduction thread first.