Bots

[psychoangel691]

Originally Posted by Riotpolice

Ok, here is my idea as to how the ban's should work for the bots:

1. Elect a group of people to be the pseudo-mods

2. Give them the power to temporarily ban the bots just to keep them from posting

3. The names of the pseudo-mods' bans should show up to the real mods, like in a list somewhere, and they should decide if the bot is to be totally banned.

This will just basically hold the bots off until a mod comes around to ban the bot completely. Just my $0.02

You can't just give people power to temp ban, it doesn't work that way.

[Nick Skyline]

Originally Posted by psychoangel691

You can't just give people power to temp ban, it doesn't work that way.

I agree with this.

[psychoangel691]

Nick I mean vBulletin doesn't work that way. You can't just set someone up to temp ban.

[Nick Skyline]

Originally Posted by psychoangel691

Nick I mean vBulletin doesn't work that way. You can't just set someone up to temp ban.

Sorry. I misunderstood that one.

[Lambdadelta]

simple ways to deal with bots. Get velo do DOS the sites that give them lol XD

and IP Banning.

[Choofers]

silly jprox dat's illegal !!

[Pseudo Enigma]

Originally Posted by rushyrulz

Just report the bot posts when you see them and the mods will take care of it. There's no way to completely eradicate them without harshly inconveniencing real users.

probably the best thing that's been said so far. Anything you guys will do will make this harder for FFR to be a community.

Electing "janitors" would make it so there's yet another hierarchy of people on the forum. They also could abuse their power at any point, but that's not as hard to deal with.

Maybe make it so you have to do something like play the game before you can post. Everyone here does that except for alts. (maybe that would promote people filling up the scoreboards with Alts I guess? D: )

Making a thread for the accounts waiting for perma is pointless, you might as well wait for an admin/mod to see the actual thread with the spam and ban the bot itself before the thread is made.

Another option is to hire more General Moderators, which doesn't seem like an undo-able or bad idea imo.
just my haypenny.

[UserNameGoesHere]

The problem with regular IP bans is dynamic IPs. You ban an abuser but then end up unintentionally banning someone else (because their ISP randomly switched them to that IP address for example or it was a public location computer/etc...)

But one thing you can do is ban IPs based on region. There are ways to find out most of the IP addresses that come from x location in the world. Then just blanket ban the Russia region and the China region. It'll be unfortunate for any legitimate users from those areas, but are there any? Many sites do similar and find it cuts out 90% or more of their spam.

I mean seriously, it's a serious question. Do we have any users here who currently reside in Russia or China? Because if not, then it's a "quick fix".

And you could have a page where they can e-mail an admin or something if it was an accidental ban. This would also be a way for actual Russian or Chinese users to get around the "blanket ban everyone from Russia or China", as I don't imagine there would be very many.

[ryuyasha]

Originally Posted by Pseudo Enigma

Another option is to hire more General Moderators, which doesn't seem like an undo-able or bad idea imo.

Undo-able
able to undo/be undone

Took me a second to figure out what you meant. Confusing wording there.


I like UserName's idea of allowing exceptions for legitimate users if we region-ban any area.

[icontrolyourworld]

i still think my idea of making it so you have to get 15mil GT before posting on the forums will work well

[mrpreggers]

i hope they start botting RATO and Death Piano AAAs so they can spam the forums

[Ohaider]

Selling ugg boots and sailboats at tarps will winning football in green 0ceans such as construction paper.Do not missing.

[Pseudo Enigma]

Originally Posted by ryuyasha

Undo-able
able to undo/be undone

Took me a second to figure out what you meant. Confusing wording there.


I like UserName's idea of allowing exceptions for legitimate users if we region-ban any area.

lmao wrecked xd

[noname219]

What about, play one song before you can post in the forums ?

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

Originally Posted by noname219

What about, play one song before you can post in the forums ?

This might discourage / confuse newer players

[Frank Munoz]

Don't newer members already have to wait like.. a week or smthn before posting?
I'm sure that playing one (FXCKING ONE) godamn motherfkcn song of FFR, the main thing that they should be signing up for which is to play the game during that week wait wouldn't be that difficult.

[Pseudo Enigma]

Originally Posted by Xx{Midnight}xX

This might discourage / confuse newer players

Why exactly?
Be more constructive with your criticism

[Hateandhatred]

Originally Posted by noname219

What about, play one song before you can post in the forums ?

Love this one!

Should make sure someone could have access to some ressources still, like if the game doesn't work/register scores/etc. Things to do in these situations, like accessing a specific area of the forums or a link to pm some mod, should be obvious of access.

It would definitely help!

[Ohaider]

Originally Posted by Frank Munoz

Don't newer members already have to wait like.. a week or smthn before posting?
I'm sure that playing one (FXCKING ONE) godamn motherfkcn song of FFR, the main thing that they should be signing up for which is to play the game during that week wait wouldn't be that difficult.

I remember when i first made this acc i was confused as fuck cause i couldn't post for 24 hours or a week or something (don't remember)

[Frank Munoz]

Originally Posted by Ohaider

I remember when i first made this acc i was confused as fuck cause i couldn't post for 24 hours or a week or something (don't remember)

I wish they had a queue when I first made mine(or a longer one). I was dumb as frick ):

eh, I kinda think every knew member needs like.. a figure to lead them around the forums. Cause doing so alone (even with rules provided) they'll always be confused.
Though, it'll wear off after like 3 turns and then you have to put them to sleep. After that you just use dream eater and done, you won yourself a poke'mon battle.