Anyone manning the forum?

[1022mm]

Nothing but AI bot posts in the past month, possibly some new user filtering is in order?

[hummingbirdography]

Nothing but AI bot posts in the past month, possibly some new user filtering is in order?

Those AI bots are getting a bit annoying. I think the forum could benefit from a lot of upgrades! Besides improving new user filtering, do you have any other suggestions?

[1022mm]

I'm not familiar with the back-end options on this forum, but enabling a setting requiring moderator approval of the first couple of posts of new accounts is usually enough, if it's available.  There also might be some sort of commonality or pattern with them in terms of the email addresses or IPs that could be auto-blocked or accounts auto-denied.

[1022mm]

Doing an experiment with some of these bots to see if they'll reveal themselves.