[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: &A

with all due respect, this is unhelpful. I don't think your team are taking onboard the severity of this recent wave of bots ability to crack even the hardest of Q&A.

With all due respect, on my main board which was terminated about 3 years ago (after being online for more than 20 years) I've only had to change my Q&A once (as in 1 time) and ... I've "worked" on countless other boards and easily eliminated spambot registrations (which wasn't the problem for which my assistance was requested) by using the Q&A.

we tried the name the forums last three letters etc which im sure i read on here worked but they got by that on ours. we tried uncommon questions and ones only relating to our little part of the internet which would take a really deep dive in to the hobby to find out but those in the know would get it pretty quickly. tried some suggestions from here too to no avail, maybe those forums weren't quite popular enough to continue on or because of the thinking "no bots = working Q&A" when they might not be getting hit by bots to begin with... I don't know just thinking out loud. we are the biggest in all of europe when it comes to our hobby we got a shed load of attention from the bots and crawlers, don't get me started on openai scraping our site but that's an whole other story

these damn things got smarter all of a sudden and all im saying is Q&A wont always work and will only get worse imo.

with all due respect, this is unhelpful. I don't think your team are taking onboard the severity of this recent wave of bots ability to crack even the hardest of Q&A.

We are because we got it as well and we had it on our own boards.
I changed my Q&A and it stopped. That's it.

We know from experience that if you have a Q&A that is based on general knowledge like what colour is the sky, the bots will crack it immediately. Anything you can get the answer for on google will be beaten pretty quickly. You have to think a bit more laterally with a question that requires understanding and logic to solve, like asking something about a logo etc. Also though, that cannot be an easy question like what colour is... or how many... because they'll just try red, blue, green etc until they get it right. At the moment, the bots really struggle with things you have to solve and understand and your question can be effective for a very long time.

im glad you are taking it onboard and its worked for you, don't take my tone as disparaging.

Statistics: Posted by projectpulse — Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:21 pm

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