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CAPTCHA discussion Zeke Roa ## AdminCountry code: GET/lunachan.png, country type: custom, valid:   75695

So as I'm sure you all have noticed, there's been a large increase in spambots lately. The staff have considered different options, and we will be testing captcha on thread creation as a potential solution.
Having it only show up for thread creation makes it less obtrusive, and the spam posts are almost always new drive-by threads.

Before I set it up though, I'd like to get your thoughts on this.

bear 75696

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>captcha on thread creation as a potential solution.
Honestly, best solution. And Imma assume that its not even going to be that difficult of a captcha as other boards have it, so it won't impair thread creation, which should be something the staff should caution when doing stuff like that. Though question, does taking key words that are used like filenames and banning anyone who posts it or preventing anyone from posting them possible? Thing you can do or nah?

Anonymous Comrade  75707

spam threads recently have had a very similar pattern, wondering if it could be matched with regex.
Anyhow locking thread creation in anyway wouldn't significantly affect GET by much. Newest thread is from Nov 2nd and the one before it was from Feb 22. Legitimate threads are very rare

Anonymous Comrade 75729

I think it would be a good idea if it cuts down on spambots; I think that disabling thread creation altogether would be a bad idea.

Anonymous Comrade  75749

you could even go so far to verify thread creation at the current pace, so pretty much any measure taken would be welcome by me

Zeke Roa  75752

Part of the reCAPTCHA ToS is that I have to put up a thing explicitly informing you that the site uses it (not complaining), and that by posting, you agree to Google's privacy policy and terms of use

Anonymous Comrade 75753

>>75752
Are there any non-Google alternatives?

Zeke Roa  75755

>>75753
I could use CloudFlare, which we use for caching. The only problem is TinyBoard (or at least the Ponychan fork that we use) doesn't recognize CF's CAPTCHA, but with the way that works, I think it would be easier to just require everyone to do a CAPTCHA request once every 24 hours or so. Or something like that.

Anonymous Comrade  75757

>>75753
There is hCaptcha
https://www.hcaptcha.com/

Mein  75828

Other potential idea, maybe no thread creation/image uploads from new IPs? Like you can't post a new thread or upload an image if you haven't first replied to another existing thread.

Anonymous Comrade 75887

I am one of the main users who also uses Tor, and I am fine with this. Do keep in mind that captcha effectively cuts off that group of people, though I have ways around that if it ever becomes relevant.
Another option is to implement heavy restrictions (such as an IP whitelist) and coupling those with random green periods wherein those restrictions are temporarily lifted. Then you could post the start and end times of green periods in in a human readable format in leftytrash or some other thread. That would also help with figuring out if these spambots are targeted or flyby.

>>75828
What you are referring to is colloquially called "bunker mode", and I am not enthusiastic about this unless tor nodes are whitelisted by default - which arguably beats the point.

  76019

>>75887
>Do keep in mind that captcha effectively cuts off that group of people
how?

Anonymous Comrade 76040

>>76019
Javascript and other dynamic web elements are blocked.

Zeke Roa  76085

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>>76040
Can't you just turn off NoScript?

Anonymous Comrade 76210

>>76085
No. That would beat the point.

  76437

>>76210
And what is the point?

Anonymous Comrade  80857

>>75695

Anonymous Comrade  80858

>>75696

BECOME AS GODS  81716

>>75695
I wouldn't mind Captcha, though a non-google one would be best so we don't feed the AI beast. /leftypol/ has a non-google captcha you could look into implementing if you want to reach out to the dev team.

Zeke Roa  81737

>>81716
I've recently added hcaptcha support to gochan so I should be able to just use that

Anonymous Comrade 87957

gay

Anonymous Comrade 87965

>>87957
Lel

Anonymous Comrade 90897

Sounds good.

Anonymous Comrade 92393

ok hi

Anonymous Comrade 92403

>>92393
jonathan

Anonymous Comrade 93524

verification or any other method isn't a problem.

Chewy!MUSIC.FbVY 93683

Where did the ability to hide threads go?

Zeke Roa  93703

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>>93683
Nowhere? GETchan's code is based almost entirely on Ponychan's fork of Tinyboard.

Chewy!MUSIC.FbVY 93706

>>93703
I'm so dumb I had the feature unchecked in the settings lmao

Anonymous Comrade 93715

Captcha is always gay and unnecessary.

hu-man!lt/Ep8e6Tk  94804

>>93715
Sounds like reactionary dialogue >:3

Ok 96906

Interesante

Anonymous Comrade 97588

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Not sure where to post this, but uhhh...
Can't you initiate a catalog/website "rollback", or are the threads gone? That's usually what other imageboards do when they get their catalog flooded.

Anonymous Comrade 97589

>>97588
Unfortunately not, the version of TinyBoard that we have doesn't have automatic backups built-in. I'm going to set up a cron job to do that.
This post was edited by its author on .

Anonymous Comrade 97593

>>97589
Well, good luck.
The anti-spam measures weren't that bad, took them several hours to fill up the catalog. They just so happened to strike when all the staff were asleep.

Zeke Roa  97594

>>97593
Asleep or at work.
Also for the time being, we're using ReCAPTCHA until I get hCAPTCHA support working. I've been busy with IRL stuff and other projects, but the raid is bringing this front and center.

Anonymous Comrade 100229

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recatchap is eternal shit!

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