Add Captcha to comments

[EchoReaper]

Yep – currently they do quite a bit of things to bypass preventative measures:

Add a Captcha to the comments section

We have taken steps over the years to reduce comments (and forum) spam. A verified email is already required for comment posting. Also the account has be 1 day old to post a comment. And we do have IP address floodchecking for account creation and post floodchecks.

All the bots you see posting comments have a verified email, have existed for more than a day, and used IP address masking to get past floodchecks. They are highly motivated to do whatever it takes to post comments, because it makes them money on the black market. They will adapt to post CAPTCHAs by hiring human solvers. They will adapt to game play requirements by having their bots play the game for however long it takes to meet the requirement.

[Billy_Dodo]

Some steps to stop bots posting in your group.

1. Add a new base rank with no comment permissions
   This stops bots from just joining and spamming.

2. Make a group place where completing its obby + questionnaire correctly (bot proof) or simply just joining (prob. not bot proof) will give you a promotion to the next rank where the person will get comment permissions

   This is a way for your members to get their perms without much effort. It also filters out the more active members out of those who just join and never look again. If people can’t be bothered to get the super easy promotion, they should still have the permissions to see the group shout and etc so that they can still see your announcements.

3. Make your group so that join requests must be manually accepted. Furthermore, use a bot to accept everyone except those on the blacklist. You can add people you don’t want + bots that get past this system to this blacklist.

This should work.

[AlreadyPro (Logan)]

Or just let Roblox’s join group captcha do its thing

[Billy_Dodo]

Well, what I said isn’t just for bots. It’s useful for groups in general particularly warclans and such. It helps filter out some of the “noobier” players. And the ability to blacklist is also particularly useful.

It’s something you might as well do as it’s useful + you don’t know how long it’ll take Roblox to add Captcha to comments assuming that they do.

[Ysko]

I’d rather see a better way to approach the issue of botting/spam that doesn’t include a captcha on literally every site feature.
Something like a flood check that prevents similar comments from being posted at the same time is an idea that comes to mind.

[EchoReaper]

Agree spamming captchas isn’t a good idea, but floodchecks don’t work. They already have them on comments and the botters change their IP to work around the floodcheck.