Profile Bots

[_Zenith_]

There is an incredible influx of Profile/Spam Bots coming into FFR and I want to ask, what is the progress being made against preventing/removing these sources?

If nobody wants to take the tedious time to sit there and filter through which ones are actually Bots, there is a simple distinguishing detail against them:

Their Grand Total is always 11, which is impossible to obtain by any means (unless forcefully placed the number there), and their Average Ranks are always the same (once you find one confirmed bot it makes it that much easier to find others).

If the people currently battling these Bots don't have the constant time to Ban them, I wouldn't mind sifting through Bots to ban them (if I had the power) on a constant basis. There was a suggestion by a player to deal with them another way but I forget the exact suggestion so I'm going to contact them to post in this thread about said suggestion.

[Rapta]

Re: Profile Bots

I've only seen bots have grandtotald of 15 or 17

[_Zenith_]

Re: Profile Bots

If that is true, then I guess GT isn't the most distinguishable way, but the majority and practically every one bot I've seen and then refreshed to see "Banned" have all had 11 GT, but even then 15 and 17 is still impossible to achieve by legit means.

They all have Average Ranks with 0 games played too as the best indicator, and right now the only latest profile is a Bot.

[psychoangel691]

Re: Profile Bots

Just report bots when you see them and they'll be taken care of.

[_Zenith_]

Re: Profile Bots

Just report bots when you see them and they'll be taken care of.

Alrighty I can do that.

[psychoangel691]

Re: Profile Bots

I mean it would be nice to get something better in place to prevent them at all, but right now I don't think that's going to be happening. So for now the reporting should be sufficient to get rid of the ones that appear.

[User1176756]

Re: Profile Bots

i can see preggers changing his profile stuff to match a bot.

[V-Ormix]

Re: Profile Bots

[Frank Munoz]

Re: Profile Bots


all of these are bots

except for MrODeath and CorneliusV

[justin_ator]

Re: Profile Bots

Perhaps this isn't a say-all-end-all solution but I feel like this is a pretty strong indicator that we need a more up-to-date version of vBulletin (or other forum format / site sign-up security) on the site...

[psychoangel691]

Re: Profile Bots

nvm apparently it's already in place, fffff

[Kawaiimachine]

Re: Profile Bots

Caught me :v

[Rapta]

Re: Profile Bots

nvm apparently it's already in place, fffff

What is already in place?

[psychoangel691]

Re: Profile Bots

recaptcha

[_Zenith_]

Re: Profile Bots

Is email verification in place?

My vague memory from the suggestion was something about either having email verification or only allowing certain ones? I distinctly remember the mentioning of mailinator being banned from the site as a latch to get the influx of bots to dissipate.

If my vague memory of the suggestion is wrong, then is there a way to have specific trusted email providers to be the only register-allowed emails to be used to make their account on FFR or is that too much because of how many email providers there are out there?