5 ways of stopping spammers

[Anmazing]

Since there is a lot of spammers trying to advertise their products or infect people with virures, I have taught of some ways of preventing that. @Tacosbefriends

1) Captcha when registering a new account. (This would prevent using bots)
2) Disable posting links in thread titles.
3) Add blacklisted words: "muscle", "pills", "exercises" etc.
4) Most spam messages are probably from the same people that just make new accounts. So, they should be IP banned. (I know they can use a VPN, but a lot of them probably don't even know what that is)
5) Disable profile posts for people that have under 15 posts.

 

[hgbf]

6) Set a limit for amount of threads created/ links posted for people who are new here (7 days or less on the forums)

Good ideas :D

 

[NitroPelle]

I really like the ideas :)

 

[telegamer]

yup needs to happen +69

 

[lAngelP]

Other idea: The first post will have to be accepted by staff, if you post and your first post hasn't been approved those posts will be private.

 

[telegamer]

Other idea: The first post will have to be accepted by staff, if you post and your first post hasn't been approved those posts will be private.

could work out, but a lot of time would go into that :/

 

[Anmazing]

Other idea: The first post will have to be accepted by staff, if you post and your first post hasn't been approved those posts will be private.

I don't think staff would be able to handle that.

 

[lAngelP]

could work out, but a lot of time would go into that :/

I don't think staff would be able to handle that.

As I thought it, it would be in a moderation panel. The mods would have just to see if the post is valid or not and just click a button.

Another ideas are:

• The player would have to activate the forum account using his email.
• The player would have to activate the forum account typing a command in-game.

I prefer the last one to end with this kind of spam.

 

[RPoule]

You cant post a message after 10 min. ? Or only on your profile? Doesnt stop it, but lowers the amount of spam

 

[Superherolinker]

You cant post a message after 10 min. ? Or only on your profile? Doesnt stop it, but lowers the amount of spam

The first one wouldn't help as the spammer could just wait 10mns.

 

[lAngelP]

The first one wouldn't help as the spammer could just wait 10mns.

I'm pretty sure the spammers are just bots. It won't end the spam but it would help.

 

[Anmazing]

The player would have to activate the forum account typing a command in-game.

I like this idea, because most of the spammers don't even play Minecraft, and most probably don't have a premium account. Although, they can get free alts..

 

[lAngelP]

I like this idea, because most of the spammers don't even play Minecraft, and most probably don't have a premium account. Although, they can get free alts..

Yes, but even with that, the spam would be reduced. Hope some of the ideas are implemented somehow :P

 

[Tacosbefriends]

Other idea: The first post will have to be accepted by staff, if you post and your first post hasn't been approved those posts will be private.

That's a lot of work for the staff team. We're already up to our eyeballs with reports, appeals, and bugs. It's honestly not a huge hassle to just delete a thread and ban a spambot. Captcha would be nice though.

 

[lAngelP]

That's a lot of work for the staff team. We're already up to our eyeballs with reports, appeals, and bugs. It's honestly not a huge hassle to just delete a thread and ban a spambot. Captcha would be nice though.

I think Captcha is one option, but I think there should be more ways. If you put captcha only on register you remove a little ads, not all.

That idea of the staff activating accounts would be for the ones that don't type the command ingame, or complete the activation the developers code.

 

[telegamer]

The player would have to activate the forum account typing a command in-game.

that's not possible due to the people who got banned, can't make an account

 

[lAngelP]

that's not possible due to the people who got banned, can't make an account

They don't need an account, they apply with a code on appeals.cubecraft.net

 

[telegamer]

They don't need an account, they apply with a code on appeals.cubecraft.net

Still... But this could be fixed by a second server with a join and instant kick showing the code

 

[lAngelP]

Still... But this could be fixed by a second server with a join and instant kick showing the code

That's also another idea, but I still prefer inside CubeCraft lobbies, just a command.

 

[telegamer]

That's also another idea, but I still prefer inside CubeCraft lobbies, just a command.

but not if someone is banned who wants to join the forums