October 18, 2019 - 1:23am
Bots & Spam
I've noticed a lot of what I think are Bot posts lately; generally they seem to repeat a section of text from a previous post in a thread and usually, but not always, insert some strange link - I'm not sure what their purpose is, but they are annoying.
I've just received an email from Vivaldi (the browser, not the composer) saying they are going to do SMS verification of new webmail/blog accounts because of similar problems. Perhaps that might be a useful tool on TFL?
Lance
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Floyd must be very busy playing whack-a-mole with these recent bots. It can't be easy!
I, for one, would welcome an extra login step for registered users. Something like "2 factor authentication" or similar. It's an extra step for users, but will help keep the rodent population down.
Just my 2 cents...
Jeff....
Just click "report" on the spammy comments, and any other comments by the same user.
As Lance says, there are patterns, or give-aways, that you can see, even before they post another comment with spam links.
Way ahead of you. Looks to be the same bot/person in this latest series.