Silk Road forums
Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: barthonney on February 14, 2013, 04:20 am
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You simply have a single thread that new forum members must post in to request the permission to post.
Put the thread in its own subforum and let that be the only place newbies can post.
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Then the members that post there can be added once a day or week manually OR you can make a new usergroup that has the ability to post anywhere and members get promoted to it after they make one post. You set the promotions to happen every 2 days so if some spammer gets into that thread you can just delete his account before he gets promoted.
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I guess the question and answers method during registration has failed because of human assisted bots?
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If there is a reputation based promotion available and you can give members the ability to give themselves reputation then that might help.
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For example have new account unable to post anywhere but they can give themselves one reputation point(or is it Karma on smf forums?) every 24 hours. Set the promotion to happen when a user gets to 5 rep points and then he can post.
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There are alternative captchas where you have to select the right answer among images and such and they seem to be pretty effective.
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Are pms activated on this forum?
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Have new members send a pm requesting permission to post and hire a guy to active them when they do.
Pay him with crystal meth so he'll work round the clock.
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I actually just assumed this 50 post thing was because of spambots.
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That Juno is a helluva dealer.
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Getting Vbulletin forum software would help a lot.
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Give me a shot at figuring this spambot shit out. I've been fighting them in forums for 7+ years and won most of those battles.
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I've got some spare time and I'm already on Meth so you don't have to pay me.
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Why the fuck is the captcha on for posts? By now you must have figured out that it doesn't slow the bots down... just the humans.
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Especially humans that are all on drugs.
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Seriously make me a mod and let me figure this shit out. This is the craziest solution I have ever seen.
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I still have 10 more
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amen ,this is a bummer
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I don't think i can make it
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Instead of the post captcha just put a time limit between posts.
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Why 50? What is wrong with 5 and a 6 hour time limit between posts?
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Let me try to take care of this spambot problem... soon because once I get to 50 posts I will no longer care.
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swing low
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sweet chariot
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brutality oh yes
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Hmmmmmmmm fuck
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This 50 post shit is almost as ludicrous as a forum where you can buy any drug you want.
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almost but not quite
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Horray! you made it!
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Youre a boss! Get em!
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Half way to my 50 now...
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it costs bots $0.001 to solve a captcha. so its pretty much worthless.
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you could just not use 50 posts... 10 would be ok.
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bot spam