Having a lot of trouble with bot accounts lately. Ive had to disable new user registrations for the second time. Yesterday had to delete 50 odd bot accounts with roughly 30 spam posts. Have already enabled hcaptcha with a difficult puzzle but hasn’t stopped them. Was on 3.5.0 but just updated to 3.6.0 just after the attack. We already don’t allow links at trust level 0 and require 30 posts before allowing links, but these posts are just walls of text about travel agents and other random nonsense. Had also had AI accounts and posts that refer to actual forum content but don’t quite make sense. Those are somewhat entertaining for our user base, but anyway, I didn’t want to enable AI on the forum but i feel i have exhausted all other options. However, i get this message:
But I don’t see anywhere to add said configuration?
Above all, while the AI might help with the spam, I don’t think that enabling this will help with the bot accounts being created in the first place or am I wrong?