Janknitz wrote: ↑Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:35 pm
I should add that the forum software does the delay, it's not a hands on for any of the moderators. I'm not trying to suggest that you, dear Pugsy, have to manually manage the delay!
I understood what you were talking about.
I mentioned the "holding tank" feature only because I saw it in my moderator panel where my special stuff is. There's a section for "waiting for approval" and it's topics or posts I think. I don't don't what parameters would be set to make something go into the holding tank to wait for human approval. It's just something I saw that doesn't seem to have any function at this time. There's nothing in there that needs "approval". What makes something need approval I can only speculate that it is a parameter that I don't have access to.
Maybe something like you are talking about.
I suspect that if there was just a time limit that the bots would still spit the crap out and it would just show up a bit later.
If there is no human involved the bot won't know that none of their crap is showing up immediately...they just keep firing out the crap.
I think that somewhere there is a human involved in the Asian spam because once I start blocking the multiple IDs they are using the spam quits until I get tested again with one little spam. They don't even try to create a new account. They do the one and wait a bit until they see if it sticks or not and if it does they know I am in bed and then all hell breaks loose. It's been that way every day this week and I fully expect it to happen again tonight.
My opinion is that new member posts need to be restricted and monitored at least temporarily until the powers that be have beefed up security to filter the bots out. It would be an easy to implement restriction that could be just as easily removed at a later date and wouldn't be nearly as much work for me as trying to manually clean out 1 K posts from 2 hours of spamming.
They could just sit in the holding tank until I got them cleaned out and they would never make it to the main forum page.
The legit posts...not many are made in the middle of the night and those would be easily spotted and moved to the main page manually.
But then again...just my opinion.
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