I've been clening up the forum today: removed 75% of the users, we had ~400k users, now just ~100k which is still a lot of bots/spammers. I basically deleted users who weren't active much and not recently. I also added a registration question to to try stop bots from registering. I'll monitor forum activity and see if it works at least a bit.
Ah, much better, less than 10k users now. I removed all users which had links in their profile description but never commented anything in the forum. Now I'll add a pinned post with forum rules
Seeing many spammer still registering, I changed my registration question to something much harder, although hopefully easy for a Gideros user. It basically asks the user to run some code within Gideros Studio to get the answer. It seems effective so far. What do you think ?
@MoKaLux : The user @EricMatyas was invited to let people know about his free assets (they are very useful)... he is not a bot/spammer.
Coder, video game industry veteran (since the '80s, ❤'s assembler), arrested - never convicted hacker (in the '90s), dad of five, he/him (if that even matters!). https://deluxepixel.com
I tend for the second , sorry but I hate his posts It has nothing to do with gideros and those are self-promotion posts. Imho this is not the right place to promote his art/work and it interrupts the forum flow.
Please don't get me wrong, I respect/like his work
It's in the 'relax cafe' section though, not in the coding sections, etc. Maybe there could be a way of filtering for uses who don't want to see the updates?
Coder, video game industry veteran (since the '80s, ❤'s assembler), arrested - never convicted hacker (in the '90s), dad of five, he/him (if that even matters!). https://deluxepixel.com
Coder, video game industry veteran (since the '80s, ❤'s assembler), arrested - never convicted hacker (in the '90s), dad of five, he/him (if that even matters!). https://deluxepixel.com
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