We have nipped it in the bud quickly, but the numbers were increasing so rapidly that we had to disable new user signups till we can figure out why it’s happening and prevent it. We are running 3.5.0.beta8-dev and about 2 weeks ago enabled OAuth from discord, but that is limited to our guild only. So, I don’t think it’s that as we would have seen the same bot accounts on the Discord server.
We are working on updating some of our post filtering for first time posters right now. Going to use these messages and their content to build up some “words and phrases” to use as auto flagging. Any ideas or tips to filter this type of thing from happening?
Have you checked if they coming from the same region? If so, you might be able to block at least some of them (assuming you don’t have regular users in that part of the world), either using the geo-blocking plugin or directly with something like geoip-shell.
נאמר כי hcaptcha משולב בליבת ה-discourse. איננו רואים אותו בשום מקום ברשימת התוספים שלנו ואיננו רואים מאגר git להוספה לקובץ app.yml. אנו מארחים את עצמנו.
is there a way to check IPs for signups of deleted accounts? The bots are back again even with the HCATPCHA puzzle. I deleted them all and blocked their IPs faster than I could think to get a list of their locations. (didn’t really have time to sit and collect 50 IPs). I have disabled new users registrations once more and am reluctant to open them up again.
Stop Forum Spam Plugin is not official but it has been very, very efficient on my forum, including large attacks like the one you’re experiencing.
Also, if the bots post very similar messages, perhaps try to see some expressions or links they post that you can add to watched-words to automatically silence the users? I’ve never used this feature tho.