I just come to notice that starting from 6 july 17:12 lots of new accounts are created. At this point it's still being created flooding like 650+ pages of those "empty" accounts.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it's going to turn out like what happened in topic #14440 all over again.
In general, no. Professional spammers hire unskilled workers in countries like India to solve thousands of captchas for a couple dollars a day. There isn't a good automated method these days to prevent registering bot accounts that doesn't involve something drastic like requiring a credit card.
@albert: A very heavy dmail spam wave has just begun. Heavy enough that it's causing 502 errors and slowing down the entire site. https://imgur.com/a/jmpyVYg
I was messaged by one earlier. Put it in another thread, their "Account" is here;
https://danbooru.donmai.us/users/674170
Sorry for being day late, but I think I got another spam account here.
https://danbooru.donmai.us/users/650588
I sign in after 2 weeks and I got an unread mail notif. Nothing in my inbox so I thought of starting a thread but I see this thread so perhaps there was a spambot but the message in my inbox got deleted?
skylightcrystal said:
It would be in the spam folder
We have a spam folder in message?
Hyoroemon said:
I sign in after 2 weeks and I got an unread mail notif. Nothing in my inbox so I thought of starting a thread but I see this thread so perhaps there was a spambot but the message in my inbox got deleted?
We have a spam folder in message?
Yup, when you look in your message there is a spam button at the top
Got one here too. I hope something can be done to remove all of them?
@albert will you do anything extra to get rid of all these or just rely on auto-ban system? This time the bots are easily discernable, so I could probably compile a list (or ask for help with it) and then just run them all through a script, but that would generate a ton of feedback.
Do I just report this here? Here is another one.