graouh wrote:I'd go for email validation personnally. It's required to play the game anyway, why wouldn't it be required to post on forums ?
And then blacklist those means spam domains when they pop up.
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Anyway, I don't like captchas too much, because it ruins accessibility
graouh wrote: plus it's often a way for google to get more info on people with its "recaptcha".
And about forum admins intervention to accept accounts, I'm not quite convinced, when you create an account to post on the forums you want to do it directly, and not wait for an admin to be up to eventually validate your account.
jorb wrote:Have considered things like forcing user to have an ingame character before being allowed to post, or the like.
wonder-ass wrote:shubla wrote:Good thing that we have hard working moderators so we don't need any captchas!
I'm fairly confident that the current bots could be stopped by adding even the simplest methods of user verification to registration form.
no captchas or user verification but we could do with some more active mods.
MagicManICT wrote:wonder-ass wrote:shubla wrote:Good thing that we have hard working moderators so we don't need any captchas!
I'm fairly confident that the current bots could be stopped by adding even the simplest methods of user verification to registration form.
no captchas or user verification but we could do with some more active mods.
I wouldn't be against this. Not sure why jorb doesn't try to recruit a couple more people... guess the community drives off the moderators faster than they can be found?
jorb's idea isn't too bad, but I just think of games like Path of Exile who still have issues with spammers in the game. Companies like Blizzard have thrown enough money at the problem to more or less resolve the issue (plus it's probably not worth the expense of buying new copies of WoW to spam for a few days before the account gets permabanned, if you can even get your spam message through in the first place). In comparison, we're talking a large corporation with a few million subscribers just for one game world wide vs a small company with a few dozen employees (PoE) vs what is basically a "personal project"--two guys at home.
shubla wrote:But there isa bit more motivation to spam stuff at wow players than at HnH players also, so the size difference doesn't really matter, I am sure that most of the spam issues that the forum has can be solved with less than 1 day of work and minimal impact to real people.
MagicManICT wrote:wonder-ass wrote:no captchas or user verification but we could do with some more active mods.
I wouldn't be against this. Not sure why jorb doesn't try to recruit a couple more people... guess the community drives off the moderators faster than they can be found?
MagicManICT wrote:I wouldn't be against this. Not sure why jorb doesn't try to recruit a couple more people... guess the community drives off the moderators faster than they can be found?