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spambot confession


It is interesting to see how desperate some spambots are: I had a few registering on Friendica, noticing that pre-approval is active, and sending a message to the admin that "if you need super cash opportunity this is your chance"...

I can imagine their suprised face when their account was insta-deleted.
"How?! HOW?? How can these damned admins figure out that I am a spammer?!?"


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Today I have deleted 80% of my "users" on the server.

Almost all of them logged in first and last the same day as the account was created, posted an advertisementy bio, some even posted one ad, then left and never came back.

It takes multiple clicks and fiddle to delete those, and while they should not have been there anyway it would be nice to be able to remove them easer and faster.
Now, for a change, I have set preapproval for #registrations.
There is about 6 #spambots per day, out of which about 0.5 being a #spammer human.
I only had 3 #friendica spambots today. What's up guys, net problems?
(Would be neat to have some captchas, ain't it?)