Invision Community 4: SEO, prepare for v5 and dormant account notifications By Matt November 11, 2024
gaby Posted Tuesday at 11:28 AM Posted Tuesday at 11:28 AM (edited) Hello everyone, Starting in December I've been facing a serious problem with spam bots. Dozens or hundreds of bots register on the forum every day and post spam. The recaptcha v2 option is active, I also activated the "question and answer challenge" option, and yet the bots continue to register and post thousands of messages. The email addresses they register with are @gmail.com ... Today I also disabled the "login with google" option, to see if that helps. Is anyone else facing this? can you help me with any advice/solution? Thank you! Edited Tuesday at 11:29 AM by gaby
marklcfc Posted Tuesday at 02:00 PM Posted Tuesday at 02:00 PM I've been getting no end for months too, regularly been deleting them but its frustrating
Marc Posted Tuesday at 02:18 PM Posted Tuesday at 02:18 PM 2 hours ago, gaby said: The recaptcha v2 option is active I would advise switching that out for hcaptcha. While there is no perfect solution, hcaptcha does appear to be more effective.
Jac D Posted Tuesday at 04:41 PM Posted Tuesday at 04:41 PM I'm getting dozens each day, too. Frustrating!
Marc Posted Tuesday at 04:56 PM Posted Tuesday at 04:56 PM 7 minutes ago, Jac D said: I'm getting dozens each day, too. Frustrating! Your site is nearly a year behind, consisting of 14 versions. In the case of your site, the first thing you should do is upgrade. In 4.7.13 there were new spam prevention features added - https://invisioncommunity.com/news/invision-community/new-spam-prevention-features-r1284/ In 4.7.19 we switched on content analysis for cloud platforms for spam Taking a quick look at the site for you, you would be advised to switch to hCaptcha as I mentioned above, Also Q&A should have multiple questions, and you are best with question that are not easily looked up in a generic list or math questions. Having only 1 and of the type you have, means it could easily been looked up against a list of answers, and then the answer is known. Think in this manner. If you can throw the question at chatGPT and it will just give you the answer, then its probably not a very good question.
Jac D Posted Tuesday at 05:15 PM Posted Tuesday at 05:15 PM 15 minutes ago, Marc said: Your site is nearly a year behind, consisting of 14 versions. In the case of your site, the first thing you should do is upgrade. In 4.7.13 there were new spam prevention features added - https://invisioncommunity.com/news/invision-community/new-spam-prevention-features-r1284/ In 4.7.19 we switched on content analysis for cloud platforms for spam Taking a quick look at the site for you, you would be advised to switch to hCaptcha as I mentioned above, Also Q&A should have multiple questions, and you are best with question that are not easily looked up in a generic list or math questions. Having only 1 and of the type you have, means it could easily been looked up against a list of answers, and then the answer is known. Think in this manner. If you can throw the question at chatGPT and it will just give you the answer, then its probably not a very good question. Thank you for responding. I know that I'm behind. I've been dealing with a life-or-death health issue that, hopefully, is behind me now. I tried to upgrade, but I am locked out of my own CP because I apparently can't remember the answer that I gave to a question about my sibling. EEESH! Baby steps! As far as thinking of a question that will outwit ChatGPT, that might be a bit of a challenge. 😀
Jim M Posted Tuesday at 05:27 PM Posted Tuesday at 05:27 PM 12 minutes ago, Jac D said: Thank you for responding. I know that I'm behind. I've been dealing with a life-or-death health issue that, hopefully, is behind me now. I tried to upgrade, but I am locked out of my own CP because I apparently can't remember the answer that I gave to a question about my sibling. EEESH! Baby steps! Glad to hear that its behind you 🙂 . Hope you continue to do better. 12 minutes ago, Jac D said: As far as thinking of a question that will outwit ChatGPT, that might be a bit of a challenge. 😀 Wouldn't go too crazy over it. Think you just need to avoid math questions, things outside of your niche which may be easy like "Who is the President of the USA?", what color is the sky, etc... I would also say that including questions related to your niche which may not be easily Googled or ChatGPT'd but also your audience would instantly know are good things. The goal is a happy balance of stopping (most) spammers and not frustrating your users. Some spammers are going to get in regardless of what you do as these are human spammers too so having a strategy maybe of putting a user's first post into a moderation queue may also be a good thing. Marc 1
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