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[BadDays]

Wow, I didn't realize How bad the bots were, Trying to sell stuff on here is 50/50 because it's either sketchy emails or legit people.

[Panici]

Wow, I didn't realize How bad the bots were, Trying to sell stuff on here is 50/50 because it's either sketchy emails or legit people.

Eh just need some extra precaution. Get the dude on the phone and talk about E30s.
Pretty obvious if they're an enthusiast or a scammer.

[2mAn]

Wow, I didn't realize How bad the bots were, Trying to sell stuff on here is 50/50 because it's either sketchy emails or legit people.

Thats an internet problem, not a R3V problem. Always exercise caution when selling and especially posting WTBs anywhere

[MrBurgundy]

Unfortunately FB is the best place to sell nowadays in my experience

[rturbo 930]

Alright I just logged on here and there's 75 new spam posts from the last 12 hours. That's out of hand. What can be done about it?

[digger]

you should give more people the ability to just kill threads created by bots

[DEV0 E30]

Yeah, floodgates are open.

I think removing ability to post topics, heck even posts for newbies or have to go through a quarantine would do a lot. Make them invisible till a mod OK's it, kinda like reddit for new users under a subreddit. That would stop it from flooding at least the forums, sure a long que may start but empower more mods to check that and this place is cleaned up. Then enforce new spam/bot counter measures after that.

[82eye]

i just logged in and see there are more bots than actual registered users online at this time.

[2mAn]

Well... that took a while... I just figured out how to IP Ban people because its like the same bots are back with a +1 on their stupid name. Lets see if that helps...

I also noticed most of the bots are outlook.com emails so I just added anyone with an outlook email on the ban list

I think we're still going to need to make changes, but hopefully this slows it down

[Panici]

Thank you Señior!

[82eye]

Thank you Señior!

dammit! we talked about this ... don't get him deported ..

[2mAn]

dammit! we talked about this ... don't get him deported ..

I could use a vacation...

[82eye]

I could use a vacation...

we need you chained up here - err ... i mean volunteering your well paid american waged time

[econti]

I also noticed most of the bots are outlook.com emails so I just added anyone with an outlook email on the ban list

testing to see if I escaped this

[McGyver]

Can we get an east coast mod?