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Dealing with spam bots from the front end #616

Open prepperz opened 6 years ago

prepperz commented 6 years ago

There is no way to easily deal with spambots or sometimes real people from spamming a section of the web site (which typically is the blog). Most of these spam bots registers a bunch of accounts to do this. The feed that shows shows their spam posts and it usually a series of them one right after the other.

Currently, the only way to deal with these unruly accounts is to log into the admincp and one by one search for the users, copy and paste their IP to the IP ban list and then delete the account. This is a nightmare.

An easier way to deal with this issue is if we can just select / tag any obvious spam bot/users from any front end (feeds, status, threads, pages, etc...) and have their account and IP automatically added to the IP ban list and then add their account(s) to a list for a daily auto deletion of accounts.

neil96 commented 6 years ago

Hi @prepperz ,

You can enable user group setting Enable CAPTCHA challenge when adding a new blog?.

Regards.

prepperz commented 6 years ago

Yes you can, but that doesn't solve any solve any of the issues as described above which is to quickly select the users from the front end in the feed and automagically have the IP added to the ban list and then delete the accounts into one single process.

If the bots can get around the captcha during registration then they can certain get around the captcha before post. Additionally this only hurts users and as result drive people away from using the site due to inconvenience.