SPAM ISSUES
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November 26, 2019, 08:03 PM
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Dear 23hq team
it's not a new issue but I feel that the spam has gotten so out of control that more and more users have left over time. Unfortunately the captchas aren't controlling things.
I've commented on the last thread that Appalosa opened re blocking users who randomly place footnotes on their images. I guess you cannot just close an account on suspicion of spam but re actual spam there is a real need for some improvement.
In my expierence a lot of the spam (I've been getting on my images but also seen elsewhere) is not mainly coming from accounts / no associated account there, example here
http://www.23hq.com/15%C2%B0C/photo/62558389?
Leaving these spam comments on my image here just for now for 23hq team.
Would it be an option to at least only allow comments from registered users? Totally get rid of that option to comment if there's no associated account would be my suggestion. I'm not saying it will get rid of all spam, but I think it would definitely help to prevent some!
thanks for reading,
Barbara
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Team 23
November 26, 2019, 10:02 PM
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It's a great comment -- and we've seen it from our side too. The captchas are obviously good for blocking bot traffic, but not the human version. From our end, we're also blocking ip addresses and setting up links with nofollow etc, so the basics are in places.
The user registration suggestion could be an option, but the honest version is that for people already filling in captchas and jumping ip addresses, registering an account is unlikely to be an impediment. We do offer the option to block comments entirely on an account, but that's obviously far from ideal.
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November 28, 2019, 07:50 PM
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Thanks so much for the answer and explaining things from your end Steffen! And thanks for the work you put in. :)
Barbara
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