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    Ralph (Developer)developercrusaderuc-voterfeatured-lvl1uc-winner-lvl3pro-noder 2022-09-20 12:51:21 UTC

    Sorry about spambots

    Shouts out our cool mods @tastylemon16 and @firedino32 and @squidoanimations

    Maybe one day I’ll get it under control

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    • Sticknodes spambots

      2022-09-20 13:01:55 UTC 13
    • 2022-09-20 13:18:33 UTC 11
    • Spambots spiked around the couple months before and during Spamton sweepstakes… coincidence? i tHiNK NOT

      2022-09-20 13:45:35 UTC 4
      • Replying to: Flowey3DSpambots spiked around the couple months before and during S

        big shit

        2022-09-20 13:56:53 UTC 6
    • Honestly I’m really wondering if these spam bots are just going across random WordPress sites or they specifically have sticknodes.com as a target.

      What I’m saying is I wonder if making a basic ass custom capcha would make bots shid themselves

      2022-09-21 15:49:37 UTC 1
      • Replying to: arcionekHonestly I'm really wondering if these spam bots are just g

        oh no way it’s definitely WordPress, this is a business model for them lol

        lots of things in place to prevent it but they still get through

        things like the captcha, blocking high-threat IPs via cloudflare, disabling access to remote-login stuff built into wordpress, and even moving the default login page (its not wp-login.php like usual WP installations) blocks a *lot* of the botting

        2022-10-01 23:09:18 UTC 1