GFY fix the postbots!!!
 

:321GFY Don't waste my time ;)

How do you fix a postbot? There's no way to stop them. And don't say referer because you can spoof the referer! In all reality, there is no way to stop post bots! :(

jDoG

well if you had to type in some word before you could submit a post but that would get anoying

and you call yourself a programmer ??? wtf ??

cmon man use the noggin

yes, very quickly

JDog has failed you

All they'd have to do is ban people who post the same length posts (or any post) in looping patterns

Or limit posts per day to 40 or so

stop these "top poster, win XXX" threads...

the best idea submitted in this thread yet

:thumbsup Thats a start , and some mods on speed

the need to close all the top poster threads

That would work, the only way around it! Nothing else. But somebody could still find a way around it.

jDoG

the reason why gfy likes postbots is because it makes board tracking software not work very well :)

But they are also shooting themselves in the foot at the same time.

I am using my noggin, but I'm using it on a more important project at the moment. Don't have time to think of a way around stupid post bots.

jDoG

ok thats a much better answer :thumbsup

Yea plus add the fact that i'm averaging 3 hrs of sleep for 2 weeks striaght that I don't really want to think of a good way around it.

jDoG

there is a way...

well nothing is ever %100 , but they aren't even trying as it is.
The guy who mentioned monitoring for repeat posts etc, that wont work, You could just add a random alphanumeric string to each post to get around that..

Gfy has security features installed , that they aren't using , they need to turn those on.

They need to turn off the ability to view the forums to unregistered users.

From there we will have %50 of the battle beat..

Ok now about 5 full time mods should be able to monitor gfy 24/7 7 days a week.

I would suggest setting up a script to monitor the users with the top usage. This will weed out any repeat bots or outside service tracking the board thru a username.

Ok now the search engine can be put back online.

Now another thing is the gfy database, it need to be archived and stored somewhere else, and keep a much smaller amount on gfy. :thumbsup

as far as forms submits , the whole script is fucked and needs to be ditched and replaced . * PAY THE MONEY GET CUSTOM *

definatly needs fixing