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There have been a ton of spammers recently. Whats worse, these spammers are making threads to advertise their products, which at a first glance might be something actually entertaining.
Does anyone have any ideas to get rid of these? Might we add a reCaptcha to prevent spambots from joining KYM?

Good idea, for new members only will have reCaptcha for 5 times. (or more)

That can prevent more spams.But for some users might think that reCaptcha might be a hassle.So may I suggest this kind of Bot Detector?

Good idea, (maybe you can do this if the user is new)

I think it would only be needed for a user's first forum post / comment and when any user creates a thread.

May the protective powers of Lord Inglip shroud us all!

But no, really, this wouled at least stop spambots.

reCaptcha sucks. The amount of spam on /b/ every day is outrageous, and 4chan uses reCaptcha.

James??? Can you kill them with lasers?

Isn't there already a reCaptcha box when you sign up for a new account?

I have an idea, what about if we ask our gangster friends to kill them?

I know, they beat it, but this time, we need harder than reCaptcha, maybe spambots won't make it.

Fill in ALL the Captchas!

How about triple-layering the login thing? Three Captchas, all of them have to be right. No lucky guesses for you. I'd like to see a spambot try to make an account through that.

I'm not sure it's a spambot getting through the Captcha. You can pay people to crack them.

On a Futurama wiki that I go on occasionally, the "captcha" is usually a question related to Futurama, so a real person can look up the answer on the site if they don't already know it. (Which they should considering they're signing up for a Futurama wiki, but that's irrelevant.)

What I'm saying is that maybe instead of a captcha, we could have it ask meme-related questions. If the person doesn't know it, they could look it up on the site.

It would make more sense to have this layered with an actual captcha just to make sure though.

+1 this. I bet we could make a CBC-type project for us all to come up with questions, like how we did for the login screen picture thing.

This is actually a great idea.

By the way, bots can get through captchas.

I think the meme question thing might be a good idea.

By the way, bots can get through captchas.

I think the meme question thing might be a good idea.

Maybe we shouldn't do it for signups, because we can't expect new members to have a huge understanding of memes, but the Meme Question would be great if you had to do it before you made a new thread. That would clean up the forum spam a ton.

How about making it so that new members are not allowed to post until 2 days after signup?

We don't want to discourage new users from using this site. What we do want, however, is to insure only legitimate users get in. So I think that Philip J's idea would work great in the forums.

I like the idea of this, but I think SRJ is too much of a KYM inside joke………..
Anyways, if we were to make these, maybe choose from entries that have over 500,000 views? Or ones that originated more than a year ago?

Here's another idea: Let ALL BNMs go through a first-post test, which is essentially let mods see what their first forum post or comment is, before they are released to the Forums/Comments. Spam will be fairly obvious, and if the mods decide this is a spambot then it would be an instant ban.

There will be a problem in this though……the mods will have more work, or we will need more mods.

Why do we need more security?

This whole thread seems to be filled with overreactions. If we have a few more spammers, who gives a shit? We have mods. Just ignore them and let it be.

The site is fine how it is. Stop making nonsense ideas that won't be implemented, that are just to block about one or two spam threads a day. It's pointless.

That's my say in the matter. Thank you and goodnight.

Also the flaw in our idea is that it wouldn't keep out Dubstep Johnson and similar assholes. I think he's made 7 spam threads today.