Registration for new s has been temporarily closed due to the high amount of spam s in the last 2 days. We invite you to give suggestions on how to deal with this by commenting in this thread:https://mangaupdates.conexionsite.com/showtopic.php?tid=60366 40406u

A just ruler amongst tyrants

There was one that got through.

Guess was ed earlier but was quiet.
https://mangaupdates.conexionsite.com/.html?id=505330 😀

Thanks, took care of it

A just ruler amongst tyrants

I think there's another bot? https://mangaupdates.conexionsite.com/.html?id=505563

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Dealt with

A just ruler amongst tyrants

This keeps on, intermittently, as of Oct. 23. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the Japanese manga industry has hired someone to do this in an effort to undermine scanlation.

A few torrent sites as Demonoid allow you to only on specific times, which is what i would normally suggests but that would defeat the point of MU in the end.
Which brings me to my question. What if you could only unlock your ´s forum privileges on specific and set dates. All "new s" could only do so much spam damage that way, unless someone uses that time to set up multiple s and only employs them if the ones before get banned. Any other smart ideas?

I also read EU/US comics and am a librarian.
Manga-Masters, My ANN-Lists + Imdb

Perhaps this is what residentgrigo was saying, but only allowing s older than x months to post might help.

Bot https://mangaupdates.conexionsite.com/.html?id=506250

Bot https://mangaupdates.conexionsite.com/.html?id=506278

Bot https://mangaupdates.conexionsite.com/.html?id=506281

And I'm starting to sound like a bot...

Ok, this actually is a bot (army) as no human can post this fast. So how about limiting how fast one can post and trying to freezing out people who multiple times a minute automatically.

I also read EU/US comics and am a librarian.
Manga-Masters, My ANN-Lists + Imdb

Close registration again.

https://mangaupdates.conexionsite.com/.html?id=506375

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Close registration again.

https://mangaupdates.conexionsite.com/.html?id=506375

And, even more now...

https://mangaupdates.conexionsite.com/.html?id=506401

Not sure if closing registration is the right way to solve this. Are all these s posting from the same IP?

For starters, dynamically generate the names for the form fields names based off of a hash of the current server timestamp (needs to have millisecond resolution for the timestamp) rather than have a form field name that looks something like "name" or "". Instead, you just check the form field names, which are hashes themselves, against your cached hash to see if it's a name or . This prevent your run of the mill bots looking for form field names like "name", "_1", "_2", etc. It'll force them to have to rely on DOM structure patterns to navigate, which is a bit harder.

Also, recently Google recaptcha's been byed with 85% accuracy when bots use the audio option.

How about a reputation system? Does the use the sites features? Ever interacted with Control features? Submitted releases? How long has the been active on the site?

Maybe scaling back post-limits on inactive s (or notify mods / block s temporarily). This could also trigger on suring the average daily post-count of that in the last week.

Putting nofollow on outgoing forum links seems workable too?

How about white-listing common outgoing forum links and notifying mods (and imposing temporary post timers) if a unknown link gets posted? This would maybe need some differentiation to apply even to URL-parts after the domain like reddit.com/r/manga/ on a white-list for example (because there are even spammy subreddits).