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    • girish
      girish Staff last edited by

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

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      • BrutalBirdie
        BrutalBirdie App Dev @girish last edited by

        Wtf that's next level spam.

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        • robi
          robi @girish last edited by

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

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          • jimcavoli
            jimcavoli App Dev last edited by

            @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.

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            • robi
              robi @jimcavoli last edited by

              @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?

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              • nebulon
                nebulon Staff @robi last edited by

                @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.

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                • BrutalBirdie
                  BrutalBirdie App Dev @robi last edited by

                  @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.

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                  • robi
                    robi @nebulon last edited by

                    @nebulon yeah keep stacking them, add MTCaptcha too 😆

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                    • Lonk
                      Lonk last edited by

                      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.

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                      • robi
                        robi last edited by

                        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.

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