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[Sahri]

Ga-Ga

Thanks for all your efforts and reports...you guys are awesome heart
I would know what to do or how to report.

❀ Just click "report this post/thread" and the rest should be clear :3 Oh and put "spam bot" in the additional information box so they know what this is about.

[Erynne]

Looks like it's some automated thing that creates an account per minute then posts that weird message.

[Sahri]

Erynne

Looks like it's some automated thing that creates an account per minute then posts that weird message.

❀ Which means Gaia should review the account registration page and add a CAPTCHA like the one in Lake Kindred.

[Erynne]

Sahri

Erynne

Looks like it's some automated thing that creates an account per minute then posts that weird message.

❀ Which means Gaia should review the account registration page and add a CAPTCHA like the one in Lake Kindred.

Definitely!

[Sahri]

Erynne

Sahri

Erynne

Looks like it's some automated thing that creates an account per minute then posts that weird message.

❀ Which means Gaia should review the account registration page and add a CAPTCHA like the one in Lake Kindred.

Definitely!

❀ Would be a rock solid question for the AtS but I don't want to ask this in the pre-event thread because chances are the question would get skipped.

[Erynne]

Sahri

Erynne

Sahri

Erynne

Looks like it's some automated thing that creates an account per minute then posts that weird message.

❀ Which means Gaia should review the account registration page and add a CAPTCHA like the one in Lake Kindred.

Definitely!

❀ Would be a rock solid question for the AtS but I don't want to ask this in the pre-event thread because chances are the question would get skipped.

Sad, but true.
I do have a couple of screenshots where the bots took over the front page in case it wasn't clear how messy it got.

[Sunilu]

I srsly gotta hand it to the person who is doing this. That takes some serious dedication bro.

[Erynne]

Sunset Illu

I srsly gotta hand it to the person who is doing this. That takes some serious dedication bro.

Does it count if the whole process is automated?

[Sunilu]

Erynne

Sunset Illu

I srsly gotta hand it to the person who is doing this. That takes some serious dedication bro.

Does it count if the whole process is automated?

I think it still does.

[Nanzzy-chan]

Sahri

❀ Which means Gaia should review the account registration page and add a CAPTCHA like the one in Lake Kindred.

”Tell me why am I still here when it’s all gone; I’m living with the ghost of yesterday
Tell me why am I still trying to hold on; I’ve got to tear it down to let it go”

If you put an item recognition captcha on the registration page though... Poor newbies who have no idea what all the Gaia items are xd

But yeah, any sort of captcha might help big time with this ridiculous spam emotion_facepalm

[MK-Ulta]

Didn't this happen some time last week too? I swear this isn't the first time I've seen this sort of spam going down here recently...

[Erynne]

Nanzzy-chan

Sahri

❀ Which means Gaia should review the account registration page and add a CAPTCHA like the one in Lake Kindred.

”Tell me why am I still here when it’s all gone; I’m living with the ghost of yesterday
Tell me why am I still trying to hold on; I’ve got to tear it down to let it go”

If you put an item recognition captcha on the registration page though... Poor newbies who have no idea what all the Gaia items are xd

But yeah, any sort of captcha might help big time with this ridiculous spam emotion_facepalm

Dammit. That's a massively good point.
Gaia has such bad luck with captchas too, i.e. Fishing.

[Jaffah]

Erynne

Nanzzy-chan

Sahri

❀ Which means Gaia should review the account registration page and add a CAPTCHA like the one in Lake Kindred.

”Tell me why am I still here when it’s all gone; I’m living with the ghost of yesterday
Tell me why am I still trying to hold on; I’ve got to tear it down to let it go”

If you put an item recognition captcha on the registration page though... Poor newbies who have no idea what all the Gaia items are xd

But yeah, any sort of captcha might help big time with this ridiculous spam emotion_facepalm

Dammit. That's a massively good point.
Gaia has such bad luck with captchas too, i.e. Fishing.

just use the pose icons instead of the item icons and it should be fine, there's a lot of items i don't know but it's simple enough to identify at least one of the pose icons, even with hidden/secret poses

[Nanzzy-chan]

Erynne

Dammit. That's a massively good point.
Gaia has such bad luck with captchas too, i.e. Fishing.

”Tell me why am I still here when it’s all gone; I’m living with the ghost of yesterday
Tell me why am I still trying to hold on; I’ve got to tear it down to let it go”

Yeah, neither option sounds too great xD
Though the captchas for posting and browsing the forums while logged out are generally pretty readable? So if they could use those, that might work O3o

[Erynne]

Jaffah

Erynne

Nanzzy-chan

Sahri

❀ Which means Gaia should review the account registration page and add a CAPTCHA like the one in Lake Kindred.

”Tell me why am I still here when it’s all gone; I’m living with the ghost of yesterday
Tell me why am I still trying to hold on; I’ve got to tear it down to let it go”

If you put an item recognition captcha on the registration page though... Poor newbies who have no idea what all the Gaia items are xd

But yeah, any sort of captcha might help big time with this ridiculous spam emotion_facepalm

Dammit. That's a massively good point.
Gaia has such bad luck with captchas too, i.e. Fishing.

just use the pose icons instead of the item icons and it should be fine, there's a lot of items i don't know but it's simple enough to identify at least one of the pose icons, even with hidden/secret poses

Easy even for complete newbies?