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The number of mods wont matter. The worse I have ever seen was a site that created a new account every minute. No human can keep up with that. What you have to remember is these are bots, not people. They follow a random program to create accounts and post up links. I think you might be mixed up on what's happening.

Easiest way to explain what is going on is if we think of a Guy that hires a bunch of kids every night to egg a house. You can stop one lot but the next night a new lot will come by. You can scream at the kids but the Guy is just sitting at home watching TV.

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Without significant technological prowess, it would not be simple to bypass Google's Captcha service.

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*Sigh* So what is your suggestion? If the reCAPTCHA tests do not work, if having more mods not solve it, WHAT DOES? Surely the answer shouldn't be nothing. I mean, who really wants to deal with this EVERY SINGLE DAY/NIGHT? There has to be some kind of solution...

Edit: And like Legend said... reCAPTCHA tests are supposed to block bots from getting in. The only way these spam bots could've possibly get in, is via someone logging them inside.

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I don't have a suggestion unfortunately. Security isn't my speciality so I can't comment on what would be the best outcome.

Spam is really treated like a virus or bacteria. You always need better meds as years go on because the old ones will become obsolete. The system we had in place worked for a while so it did SOMETHING, but the bots found a way around it and that hole now needs to be plugged.

Please respond if you can. Not just for me, but for the whole guild.

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Oh Emm Gee... My boss said those exact same words to me (with guild replaced by company).

Um... is it you? Are they any slides you want me to take out?

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Indeed I am young lady!

. . .

Just kidding. Not sure who you meant by that, but I am certainly not that said boss lol. I just simply want Mahz and the others to take a look and update us all on the situation at hand.

Speaking of jobs, mind if I ask what job you happen to take?

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Phew... I was staring at that line for a good while, panicking the whole time. :)

I'm in tech support, but if my boss heard that I'm working on PowerPoint slides, he'll definitely ask why. So yep, I'm safe. :P

But damn, if my boss was here and seeing all my fancies with anime and my post history, he'll definitely look at me weird. There's so much in my online life that I can't let my boss/colleagues know. So relieved...

*goes to watch anime to erase boss from mind*

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Lol and it would also be weird to see your boss actually RP too.

And cool :)

Also... I just want to say one last thing: Is @mahz or any of the other moderators: @Kangaroo, @Sherlock Holmes, or @Hank taking any look at our conversation? I mean, it may not be anything really, but an official report from one of you guys on the situation will at least answer some of the questions and what's being planned (hopefully) for this? Anyways, I'm done with my ramble, just wanted to get this to your guys attention.

Please respond if you can. Not just for me, but for the whole guild.

(Now I'm done)

Also that Bot-Admin thing sounds scary as fuck...

Since when does the Guild use CloudFlare? Was just redirected to their error page, then their cached version of the site. I don't recall seeing it before, although the Guild has already had its fair share of outages.