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Spam-B-Gone Anonymous 12/23/2021 (Thu) 05:27:40 Id:fed218 No. 313

Just a quick thought regarding the regular spam/ad bots... Since they all seem to be Chinese, wouldn't it just be practical to rangeban that region for now? I kind of doubt that we have any genuine regular Chinese visitors that would be affected at the moment, considering how obscure this place still is. Of course, that's just me assuming these are actually coming from China. For all I know it could be US based spam, or India, or somewhere in Europe or any other place.

Anonymous 12/25/2021 (Sat) 06:41:13 Id:fed218 No. 319

On a different note, just noticed that I'm glowing ^:) ID: fed218

Anonymous 01/21/2022 (Fri) 21:25:47 Id:fed218 No. 337

Another observation and potential suggestion. I've noticed nearly all of the spambots include a lot of junk in the name and subject fields. What about something like this? If the combined total amount of characters in the name and subject fields exceeds a set number, like 20, captcha is required.

mys_elf Board owner 01/21/2022 (Fri) 22:48:37 Id:35c225 No. 338

>>337 I haven't really noticed anything that could be used to consistently identify the spambot, and adding a captcha like that would likely not be super straightforward. I will say that the more aggressive rangebans we've been doing do seem to be making a noticeable difference. I think as long as we keep it up, things will continue to improve.

Anonymous 04/21/2022 (Thu) 18:04:56 Id:cf2538 No. 399

I have noticed that the spam bots only go to certain threads, and I think they choose that based on some kind of algorithm. Wouldn't it be possible to make a trap thread for the bots that tics off all of the algorithm's thread finding sense and autodeletes all new posts in it? Just an idea I had, might no really be how the bots work.

mys_elf Board owner 04/21/2022 (Thu) 19:44:17 Id:35c225 No. 400

>>399 >I have noticed that the spam bots only go to certain threads, and I think they choose that based on some kind of algorithm. It's probably all automated, seems like once it selects a thread it will always return to it in the future. >Wouldn't it be possible to make a trap thread for the bots that tics off all of the algorithm's thread finding sense and autodeletes all new posts in it? Unlikely. Who really knows what metric it goes by. Likely just whatever comes up in it's search. I will say that the spam situation is a lot better these days. There are times now that we even go multiple days without a single spam post. There has been a slight uptick over the past couple days, they probably got in a new batch of IPs, but once they blow through those we'll likely be back to seeing less and less of them.

Anonymous 08/02/2022 (Tue) 15:56:18 Id:22fea6 No. 434

>>433 What for?

Anonymous 08/03/2022 (Wed) 19:40:36 Id:22fea6 No. 437

What's next, you will post actual Rule 0 to illustrate your point, you fucking moron?

mys_elf Board owner 08/03/2022 (Wed) 20:40:22 Id:35c225 No. 438

>>432 >>433 Why would you want a delay if it's something to be removed? Anyway, you could probably look into https://gitgud.io/LynxChan/LynxChanAddon-AutoBan as a starting point. Be aware that this addon was designed for Lynxchan 2.0 so it may need some updating to work with newer versions.

Anonymous 02/02/2023 (Thu) 04:23:43 Id:023eff No. 480

>>438 Can you add file shasum to this https://gitgud.io/LynxChan/ShadowTrashAddon/-/blob/master/index.js

Anonymous 02/02/2023 (Thu) 20:11:17 Id:cd3749 No. 481

>>480 Who the fuck are you and what the fuck you have to do with this board?