138337-serious-suggestions-to-temporarily-prevent-the-bots-rampage-every-night

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Idea #1:
Regular (trustable) members turned into community forum only moderators that are online when official ones are not. I'm all for community moderators, and would gladly volunteer. My main hours (around now) on these forums seem to be a rather dead time for official mods/devs.
 
Idea #2:
I'm not ssure if this is possible with these forums, but why not prevent any post with the words "molvi", "vashikaran", "baba", or any other odd keyword they use a lot from being posted until all these bots are gone and have moved on? Literally every single post from these bots over the past week contains at least one of these India-based odd words. Since those words are never used in an English community outside of the India-based bots, it wouldn't hurt any regular member, and would prevent the bot's rampage every night on the forums. 
 
 
Sidenote: "The Bot's Rampage" is a great name for a speed-metal band that writes video-game based songs.
			
				
	Edited October 8, 2015 by Zazaaji	
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			I was going to post something along these lines. At least until they have more moderators and a more permanent fix in place	
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			In light of the mass rampage again, bumping. Bots have already forced this to page 2.	
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			Edit: Keel beat me.
			
				
	Edited October 7, 2015 by Zazaaji	
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			Bump! This has gone on for a week?  I must be getting lucky when I come here to read.  This is the first time I've seen it, but I'm usually here earlier in the day.	
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			Forced to page 2 again. The bots are getting more agressive, I've reported five separate India based bot accounts in the last maybe 30 minutes. Doing this measure in the first post would put a mass hold/stop on them.
			
				
	Edited October 7, 2015 by Zazaaji	
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			Putting a 5 minute cooldown timer on new posts (similar to WoW forums) will go a long way towards preventing this ...	
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Putting a 5 minute cooldown timer on new posts (similar to WoW forums) will go a long way towards preventing this ...
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Why not community moderators since they apparently don't have staff watch the forums all the time "but strave.. abuse of power and stuff" well make them put like $100 deposit or something that they lose if the do something outside of whatever guidelines are given them... its not like it wouldn't take long for an actual employee to fix whatever they were doing... and maybe not even the ability to ban or remove post but the ability to squelch for actual moderator review...
 
 
 I don't know just trying to think of something /shrug	
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			I'm all for community moderators, and would gladly volunteer. My main hours (around now) on these forums seem to be a rather weak spot for official mods/devs.	
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			I don't even get what these bots are trying to say. It's all gibberish...	
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I don't even get what these bots are trying to say. It's all gibberish...
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I don't even get what these bots are trying to say. It's all gibberish...
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Yeah, you would think they would make it a little clearer or else its kinda a waste
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			We've discussed this in other threads. People have suggested banning "vashikaran", or the phone numbers they post. I don't know. I'm sure Carbine has a number of experts they can consult on this. Solutions are probably underway.
			
				
	Edited October 7, 2015 by Debrained	
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Filters don't work, they just bypass them by regularly changing the wording or letter spacing. Bots also never let up, it's not something that is going to go away with time. They need a real fix not a bandaid.
 
A better "human detector" captcha thing, or even tying forum posting privileges to the ~$10 account unlock reward that lets you do other ingame social actions like guild invites. Some other F2P games require an active subscription to post on the forum, but I think that is going a little too far.	
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			Yup, they're back. Bumping this. Give us something devs/mods. At least if something is planning to be done. If these forums don't allow certain words to be banned, then members-made-community-moderators that are usually online at this time (when devs and forum mods seem to be inactive) would be a great alternate.
			
				
	Edited October 8, 2015 by Zazaaji	
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			Just ban all accounts from Russia, China, South America and the Middle East. Problem solved.	
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			Add a "Are you a bot?" thing to every account creation screen haha.  It's a thought.  Doubt it would do much though. 	
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