Cloudron Forum Node BB - Signature new limit max of 75 chars

[girish]

I posted on HN a few days ago about this as well - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24921534

[BrutalBirdie]

Wtf that's next level spam.

[robi]

@girish did you try switching it to HCaptcha yet? Or leaving both?

[jimcavoli]

@girish said in Cloudron Forum Node BB - Signature new limit max of 75 chars:

I feel like I am losing the war against spam in this forum

Yuuuuup. Sounds about right. That's a war I lose every day all over the place. It's tough out here - people and bots both are cramming all sorts of garbage into everything with a form field they can find. I've even seen the less brilliant attempt to robo-submit spam into a login from once that was an especially stupid day.

[robi]

@jimcavoli isn't there a way to set up two forms, the first one in code is hidden from view and catches bots, and the second is human visible?

[nebulon]

@robi We also use HCaptcha by now, but that didn't change anything. Well at least we don't hand the data to Google anymore if one cares.

[BrutalBirdie]

@robi said in Cloudron Forum Node BB - Signature new limit max of 75 chars:

@jimcavoli isn't there a way to set up two forms, the first one in code is hidden from view and catches bots, and the second is human visible?

That would be a honypot style, can work but like @girish said, there are real people signing up account, writing something useful and then after confirmation they edit that to a spam topic.

I also experienced less spam signups when 2FA is forced on the user. 2FA is great but forcing that on all users because of spam.
Ehh.

[robi]

@nebulon yeah keep stacking them, add MTCaptcha too

[Lonkle]

I feel like the reputation system can actually play an active role in this altogether. I don't know how yet, but I feel like it could be used to inconvenience spammers once they're on here. Then auto-deleting users based on posts and reputation after they stop being active after failing to SPAM here. Just my two cents.

[robi]

It also seems like they need the posts up for a short time to get credit for their work.

If the credit is not reliably received, they will move on elsewhere. Break the incentive.