Why are you tor-hostile?
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Why are you tor-hostile?
Tor-users must enable javascript to complete the captcha and you seem to premoderate messages from tor users.
- AnyOldName3
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Re: Why are you tor-hostile?
Half of the posts that get through the captcha are still trying to sell counterfeit viagra, so that's why we have a manual moderation queue. It's there for everyone, not just TOR users. The captcha itself isn't as effective as we'd like, and I don't have figures for how much it stops, but it's at least stopping something.
There's no silver bullet for mitigating spam, and once GPT2-based spambots start popping up, there'll be no bullets left any more.
There's no silver bullet for mitigating spam, and once GPT2-based spambots start popping up, there'll be no bullets left any more.
Re: Why are you tor-hostile?
Believe me, we would *love* to get rid of captcha and post approval moderation. But if we got rid of that, we would also get rid of all our users since we'd basically become a marketplace for viagra.
- sirherrbatka
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Re: Why are you tor-hostile?
A few years back (on the old forum) I had to remove tones of spam from each day. Not a great time and it got only worse.
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Re: Why are you tor-hostile?
because most of messages have captcha moderation come from spam systems and it is important to moderate them first before uploading frivsomerandomtoruser wrote: ↑25 May 2020, 09:59 Tor-users must enable javascript to complete the captcha and you seem to premoderate messages from tor users.