Conner Temple Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Lately, chinese spam bots have been coming into this forum and spammed scams across the entire board. This is not only bad for forum users, who are being cluttered up by spam, but for the public image of this game. Perhaps add a one topic per ten minutes limiter as a deterrent, while not actively hurting any major forum uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripper Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Perhaps add a one topic per ten minutes limiter as a deterrent, while not actively hurting any major forum uses. If we do go with this plan, the limit should be much lower though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conner Temple Posted May 24, 2017 Author Share Posted May 24, 2017 If we do go with this plan, the limit should be much lower though. How much lower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patty Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 (edited) But what if people actually like reading about Chinese college degrees? :/ Edited May 24, 2017 by Catsby Quote "There's nothing you can know that isn't known,Nothing you can see that isn't shown,There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be, All you need is love,Love is all you need." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosa Cossette dElise Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 (edited) snip Edited January 17, 2022 by Rosa Cossette dElise Clearing out. Quote sneed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donald Trump Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Have some kind of plugin that checks if the nation actually exists in game upon login. Do this simply by checking to see if the URL(politicsandwar.com/nation/id=NATIONID) works, if not the account request is rejected. This is really not hard to fix. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patty Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Inb4 Alex will say this: I can spend my time on far more important things that need fixing, like credit prices 1 Quote "There's nothing you can know that isn't known,Nothing you can see that isn't shown,There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be, All you need is love,Love is all you need." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiho Nishizumi Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Have some kind of plugin that checks if the nation actually exists in game upon login. Do this simply by checking to see if the URL(politicsandwar.com/nation/id=NATIONID) works, if not the account request is rejected. This is really not hard to fix. That would be kind of hard to make work, given that the bot could just pick a random ID already in game. Particularly since there are several people that don't have a forum account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donald Trump Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 That would be kind of hard to make work, given that the bot could just pick a random ID already in game. Particularly since there are several people that don't have a forum account. No, these are bots that are designed to target IPB forums and will be programmed to crawl Google looking for sites to spam, nothing more and nothing less. If they were intelligent enough to make accounts in game like that, then they wouldn't be spamming Chinese adverts on an English speaking forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conner Temple Posted May 24, 2017 Author Share Posted May 24, 2017 That would be kind of hard to make work, given that the bot could just pick a random ID already in game. Particularly since there are several people that don't have a forum account. And that there are moderators on the forums who don't have nation ID's. Wont work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conner Temple Posted May 24, 2017 Author Share Posted May 24, 2017 You seem to know a lot about these, do you know if there's a way to permanently silence them, or do they just stop eventually? Honestly they really don't bother me, but I think nobody wants them around Well they cluttered up an entire page of game discussion. Thats more than ''doesn't bother me'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiho Nishizumi Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 (edited) No, these are bots that are designed to target IPB forums and will be programmed to crawl Google looking for sites to spam, nothing more and nothing less. If they were intelligent enough to make accounts in game like that, then they wouldn't be spamming Chinese adverts on an English speaking forum. Didn't say anything about creating accounts in game. I said about taking ID's from nations in game. Since ID's are numbers, they can simply fill out a random 5-digit number that could redirect to a nation in game. Maybe they !@#$ up and pick an ID of a deleted nation and then get denied, but it's still not as a reliable of a choice. You seem to know a lot about these, do you know if there's a way to permanently silence them, or do they just stop eventually? Honestly they really don't bother me, but I think nobody wants them around Only way to stop them is to set up proper countermeasures against them. They'll just spam for as long as you allow them to, although each bot just sort of caps out after X amount of posts. Edited May 24, 2017 by Shiho Nishizumi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conner Temple Posted May 24, 2017 Author Share Posted May 24, 2017 Limit new topic posts on the forum to one per 10 to 15 minutes. Thats a start, and will delay any spamming for mods to see too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conner Temple Posted May 24, 2017 Author Share Posted May 24, 2017 I think it'd benefit the entire community more if they just got some sort of anti-bot software, or Alex contacted the forum providers directly about it, because if there's a war, or a huge event. I'm sure people wouldn't be happy seeing "a player posted 7 minutes ago, you must wait 8 minutes before creating yours" There'd be people abusing that, posting forum posts with 1 character just so the entire community would be silenced I dont mean only one person can make a topic every 10 minutes. I mean, one account can only make 1 post every 10 minutes, stops single account spamming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyubnyan Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 (edited) Hmmm, I'm gonna look at their QQ account. Edit: this has always been a problem and bots just make it worse. you should have to have a nation to post. Edit 2: This part of the forums is not for suggestions BTW. Edited May 24, 2017 by Kyubnyan Quote Humans cannot create anything out of nothingness. Humans cannot accomplish anything without holding onto something. After all, humans are not gods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenclaw Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Or, we could have the creator of new forum accounts, verify their nation in game, to activate the forum account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G'Kar Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 No, these are bots that are designed to target IPB forums and will be programmed to crawl Google looking for sites to spam, nothing more and nothing less. If they were intelligent enough to make accounts in game like that, then they wouldn't be spamming Chinese adverts on an English speaking forum. This. No need for fancy solutions or anything. Also, without checking the licensing, I know that we are using a licensed forum software and being a paid thing we probably aren't allowed to modify it. Nor would it be advisable as it would cause issue updating. Anyways, there is a reason this has become a problem now and its being fixed. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurdanak Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 (edited) Also, without checking the licensing, I know that we are using a licensed forum software and being a paid thing we probably aren't allowed to modify it. Nor would it be advisable as it would cause issue updating.Came to say this. A lot of suggestions people provide for forum-side issues just aren't feasible without constructing our own forum software or causing issues with IP.Board. Not that solutions don't exist, just that it's not that easy. Regardless, we've gotten spam bots before. They come and go within the course of a week or so. Edited May 24, 2017 by Kurdanak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durmij Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Not sure if it's related but a lot of the ads I'm seeing appear to be Chinese as well. Quote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjI4ROuPyuY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUUEHv8GHcE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G'Kar Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 By IP board or us? I still think atleast contacting them would be a good step instead of just waiting it out By us, its an issue on our end. Not sure if it's related but a lot of the ads I'm seeing appear to be Chinese as well. Blame google for not filtering spam in its algorithms. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conner Temple Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 Blame google for not filtering spam in its algorithms. Its not spam though. It's literally just ads in chinese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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