forgive me if i’m being belligerent, because i don’t have a lot of web development experience, but woudln’t solving the spambot problem be as simple as just putting recaptcha on everything? or like… at least the signup form?
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Master3395
December 18, 2016, 9:13pm
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Nope, rechapta has been quit week lately.
Already suggested a few times.
This was totally not a scam to steal accounts! Can we please like, do a ‘send message code’ people have to put in before sending messages so we can cut back on spam bots? Thanks.
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An issue that have been plaguing users of Roblox recently is spam in their PM boxes. The spam tends to consist of messages that try to get users to join groups (Because they played X game, and they’re ‘experienced’). Sometimes, it can be used for malicious purposes (Such as sending cryptic messages to discourage players from playing a certain game, or trying to get users to go to phishing sites).
Example of spam:
Example of harassing bot-messages:
I think that a form of human verification (…
One of the biggest problems that I have seen with the catalog right now is botting of really limited items, it frustrates people who wait patiently only to see an item sold out in a few seconds.
A Captcha should be introduced to prevent this stuff happening in the future, it’s getting ridiculous.
I know, botters could always just have the Captcha come up on their screen ready to solve but that doesn’t warrant not introducing this, it is technically feasible that botters will still be able to a…
[url=http://devforum.roblox.com/t/site-wide-captcha/21720]http://devforum.roblox.com/t/site-wide-captcha/21720[/url] Captcha for the catalog Add a captcha http://devforum.roblox.com/t/adding-easy-number-captcha-before-buying-limited/15234 http://devforum.roblox.com/t/adding-easy-number-captcha-before-buying-limited/15234 Idea for captchas on PMs Seriously, can we just get CAPTCHA already?
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it seems so glaringly obvious, is there any reason roblox can’t use it?
Hi.
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.
We are not ignoring this issue. We’re working on shorter and longer term fixes. That’s all I can say about it at this time.
Also, not a good idea to tag random people.
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my bad, thanks for elaborating
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