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Raveen
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Hi pkk, I've just banned two spammers in the last two days. Looks like the bot protection isn't working well enough at the moment.
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Post by pkk »

There are 1-3 spammers per month who bypass the custom captcha (because they're humans). Nothing to worry about.
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Cool, I was just noticing a blip, that's fine.
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Post by MagisterXF94 »

sorry for the necro, but the phenomenon seems to be increasing by a lot.
what can we do?
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alternatively we can hire a group of ninjas...

though I do prefer carpet bombing :P
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Djole88 wrote:QUOTE (Djole88 @ Aug 16 2016, 07:56 AM)


alternatively we can hire a group of ninjas...

though I do prefer carpet bombing :P

Let's combine the two and carpet bomb with a group of hired ninjas.
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Papsmear wrote:QUOTE (Papsmear @ Aug 16 2016, 07:08 PM) Let's combine the two and carpet bomb with a group of hired ninjas.
Excellent idea!

Unfortunately ninjas are taking a break:



So we could settle for cat snipers. Mightier than bear cavalry :P
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