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Why so many bots

Posted: March 5th, 2024, 9:16 am
by Falcon
Why what do they want with dragonkind :,3

Re: Why so many bots

Posted: March 5th, 2024, 11:59 am
by IgneousCroc
Yeah, I noticed it too! Why us, geez? Needless to say, youse guyse, just report it and dont click on any of those links xD

Re: Why so many bots

Posted: March 5th, 2024, 1:18 pm
by pheelthemoment
I can never look at Minecraft Steve the same way again :pensive:

Re: Why so many bots

Posted: March 5th, 2024, 4:01 pm
by synthcrow
there's something really funny about the bost posting a lot specifically under the dragonkin section. they have to be programmed in some very specific way for them to do that

Re: Why so many bots

Posted: March 5th, 2024, 9:56 pm
by Neververy4
I could not tell you why :(
I can mass delete their posts and block their IP's/E-Mails, but that doesn't seem to be enough. I'm about to set it up to where new users need to wait to be registered via E-Mail; something I really don't want to do

Usually we get about three a day, but today we got over 40, and while only one posted, it posted 93 times.

Heads up by the way, as long as you don't reply to their posts, I can mass delete anything they post. Adding to their topics will require extra steps on my end

Re: Why so many bots

Posted: March 7th, 2024, 2:24 am
by Neververy4
So it turns out that the bots may be using actual E-Mails of innocent people. How do the bots get the E-Mails I couldn’t tell you. I’m assuming from a data leak list?

Anyways someone messaged me offsite saying their E-Mail was used to make an account. I think this is the final straw, I’m turning on E-Mail verification.

PHPBB is a simple but completely free Forum Base, and as such it doesn’t have a lot of features that a real social media site would have

Re: Why so many bots

Posted: March 7th, 2024, 4:59 pm
by Aeviarth-the-Dragoness
Everydragon Gansta till the Steve bots start speaking Russian...

Re: Why so many bots

Posted: April 2nd, 2024, 7:51 am
by Falcon
Guess what just happened you’d never believe it

Re: Why so many bots

Posted: April 3rd, 2024, 2:16 am
by Neververy4
Falcon wrote: April 2nd, 2024, 7:51 am Guess what just happened you’d never believe it
I wasn’t fast enough to take it down 😔
Usually I get them before people notice. We still get em’ about once a day

Re: Why so many bots

Posted: April 3rd, 2024, 8:41 am
by Falcon
Neververy4 wrote: April 3rd, 2024, 2:16 am
Falcon wrote: April 2nd, 2024, 7:51 am Guess what just happened you’d never believe it
I wasn’t fast enough to take it down 😔
Usually I get them before people notice. We still get em’ about once a day
I salute you you are so brave