Concern about bots
Recently as you have noticed ( It's hard not to ) there has been an influx of bots on the forums. These things are like a plague, they started off small and slowly more and more of them are popping up. 5 topics I have seen made in a row. They are taking over this forum and it really needs to be sorted out. I don't mean to be "That guy" but I can see that other people are pretty pissed at them aswell. Ignoring them won't do anything, something has to be done.
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Maybe if some system was implemented that automatically filtered threads with 10 or more links in the OP, or at least flagged them for review before being posted, it would be more tolerable.
Any other ideas?
That could work. We don't want it to strict because it might start rendering forum users but something like that sounds pretty good.
Maybe a simple "You must post X times before being allowed to open a thread" ? Or at least it would need admin/mod approval if you have under X comments ?
That'd increase the burden on our mods though.
a simple captcha will work
Yeah, all that needs to be done is remove the present bots on the forum and install a feature like that when creating an account.