Spam

The list we had this morning was actually bigger than that. Thanks for reporting!

These are mostly very sophisticated bots and it's a plague at the moment on companies, businesses, and community sites.

We have been interviewing "bot mitigation" services recently to determine the best company to meet our needs. We will be implementing something to help prevent this type of vandalism for 2018.

 

It's annoying, just reported a few

 

Just deleted a bunch more this morning. We delete them as soon as we see them or read reports about them and thanks so much for bringing our attention to these, guys!

We have to sleep sometime and I think that's when they like to take advantage.

 

Correct! They are in great abundance and a huge nuisance!

 

Maybe add a recaptcha for post creation, takes 2 seconds for humans (us) to do and can be just that little bit harder for the bots.

 

Believe it or not, we have recaptcha during the signup process as well as email account verification. These bots actually are groups of bots that work in concert with one another for all of these tasks.

We Admins were in several bot mitigation demonstrations last week and it really opened our eyes as to how prolific and sophisticated they are these days. I was a developer for the banking industry for many years and I am fairly experienced with security and breach prevention protocols. These new gen bots are incredibly capable.

We will get a new service to eliminate as much of this as is humanly possible shortly after the 1st of the year.

 

You are CORRECT! They usually tend to stack up after 10PM EST and continue through 10AM EST. We eliminate all those that attempt to stack up through the day, but we have only a couple of Mods that work on the other side of the planet while we here in the states are asleep.

We have just two more bot mitigation companies to interview and then we will implementing one of them.

We feel your pain with this issue and we also apologize for not having a solution in place sooner. It's only over the past four months where it has truly become as unmanageable as it is now.

We will either pay a service, or add a person, specifically to resolve this issue over the next couple of weeks.

 

We have eliminated the Asian spams. Have not seen a report on them in a couple of months now.

We implemented something similar @Graybeard ., as well as a few other measures.