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    Fake users whats up ML?

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    • NicN
      Nic
      last edited by

      Agreed, every community gets them. Part of it is scammers wanting to seed accounts that they can use later, so they don't seem brand new.

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @Nic
        last edited by

        Even once some kind of spam prevention gets added to registration, some spam bots will still work around it. Just part of any online community.

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        • Reid CooperR
          Reid Cooper
          last edited by

          You see it on wordPress and other blogs too. Just the nature of online registration.

          It's a sign of popularity, though!

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          • gjacobseG
            gjacobse
            last edited by

            Could this be causing my posting issue?

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            • Reid CooperR
              Reid Cooper @gjacobse
              last edited by

              @g.jacobse that there are lots of idle users? I don't think so.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                AJ and I had discussed this a while ago. Not much to be done. Hundreds have been manually deleted. But they pour in. They don't hurt anything so not really a big deal.

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                  RAM. @scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  @scottalanmiller said:

                  AJ and I had discussed this a while ago. Not much to be done. Hundreds have been manually deleted. But they pour in. They don't hurt anything so not really a big deal.

                  They hurt my feelings, I'm a sensitive buttercup 😛

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    Okie dokie, buttercup.

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                    • thanksajdotcomT
                      thanksajdotcom
                      last edited by

                      The NodeBB platform has no capabilities, as I've been told, for a Captcha or email verification of account. As others have said, this is common on any online community. The difference between ML and some communities is that some advertising based on these numbers. ML just has a counter that cannot be modified. It's the difference between active and passive marketing.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        New features are out now. We're dealing with more important issues now, though. With the 0.5.0-2 upgrade chat is broken and a few other bugs are really killing us. Trying to address that before we look at the new complex spam filtering options since the accounts don't impact anything. Not the squeaky wheel post-upgrade.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
                          last edited by

                          Google Recaptcha is enabled now.

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                          • thanksajdotcomT
                            thanksajdotcom @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            Google Recaptcha is enabled now.

                            Finally!!

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