Finally web page spammers have got around to spamming NationBuilder calendars. I have just had to delete a dozen events of TV programme times in the Philipines from www.segreens.com.
Very soon we will be attacked by content spam scripts. Apart from closing down all user event creation what can we do? Perhaps a Captcha to complete when adding an event? Or minimum time limits between adding events?
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You said 8 months ago “historically, these spammers are real people and not robots so a captcha wouldn’t be able to stop them from posting”. A majority of traffic on the internet is automated spam. It is unrealistic to think that NationBuilder has more human spammers than bot spammers. Add in a captcha system; it is a very straightforward process, I’ve done it on several of the websites that I manage. Then, when we are left with only human spammers, we can begin to address that issue. Do not hide behind the Straw Man that it is humans, therefore captchas won’t work. Captchas will slow humans, and stop bots, and offers the best ROI for your team’s time, as well as mine. There is obviously a high demand for captcha support!
It’s both comforting and disconcerting to see that other people are struggling with the same types of spam in their nations, specifically events with links to tv streams. Surely this is a script or operation trawling through our nations to find user-submitted event pages, and surely NationBuilder could put some filters in place to catch user-submitted events that are linking to or embedding tv streams?
I’ll add another feature we urgently need, in addition to captcha: the ability to mark multiple records as spam at once. The current set up of editing each record one by one is a huge waste of time and asymmetrical to the speed at which new spam accounts can get made.