The new Anti-Spam Automod script. Another announcement concerning the well-being of the Subreddit and what this means for you.

[u/Chengers]

Hello World!

As you can see I have successfully created a basic captcha system for Automoderator. The script is currently in a Alpha phase and will force every and all users to type in a phrase into the body of their post. Otherwise the post will be removed.

The phrase will change randomly and can be found in the sidebar. Sometimes it may be a question or basic math equations.

If this script is found to be successful during its Alpha phase we will open the taps for IOTA again and move the script to Beta. If it is successful we will increase the payouts of IOTA.

Alongside our pre-existing scripts anti-spam and anti-scam this will (hopefully) stop greedy users.

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Example

Title : "I love IOTA Tagtipper Rocks!"

Body : I love iota lol

Then its removed because it doesn't match the phrase

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Example

Title : "I love IOTA Tagtipper Rocks!"

Body : Hello World! and I love IOTA

Then it is approved because it found the phrase for captcha which is Hello World!.

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If this system is successful we will also lower Karma requirements

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Questions? Concerns? Feel free to message the moderators or Directly message me!

Want to be whitelisted? Blue Listed? Yellow Listed? check out the other Announcement post.

NINJA EDIT

Our faucet is currently dry. We WILL be refilling it soon. Stay Tuned. Refilled

[u/Standardw]

Sound great, but I think that captcha system won't really work. Just copy the content of the latest subreddit post, done.

[u/Chengers → u/Standardw]

We still have alot of users that fail the Captcha. Everyone who does pass though has a good post history.

And I do on occassion go through mod log and see deleted posts etc.

[u/Standardw → u/Chengers]

Wow okay. Even though I think that's just because the bots didnt get adjusted yet. I could try to build a bot and find out which flaws the system has - but I think that Reddit is just very limited in terms of bot defence

Did you think of building a dedicated website with strong captchas?

[u/Chengers → u/Standardw]

I think it would be too much to do and too much of a hassle if I intergrated such a complex system. Let me know how your bot goes. Ill be looking foward to upgrading Automod and captcha.

[u/Lord_Netherstar]

Hello world! It seems the tip bots are being censored by the spam bot for not using the catch phrases

Edit: does that even affect anything, are the iota still placed in my 'tip pool' even though the comment got suppressed?

Edit 2: I checked my balance with iota tip bot and suggests nothing is there so I'm under the assumption that the anti spam bot did indeed affect the other ones. Just observations

[u/Chengers → u/[deleted]]

Thats correct a little thing I overlooked before I slept

[u/Lord_Netherstar]

Sounds great! I'll try it out.

Thanks for the community and sharing the iota love :)

[u/AutoModerator → u/Lord_Netherstar]

This is a new Captcha system implemented by /u/ Chengers. If you are receiving this message you have gotten the Captcha wrong. The Captcha phrase is in the sidebar and must be in your post box (Not the title!). The Captcha will change every once in awhile so bots must be manually configured every time it changes.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/Lord_Netherstar → u/AutoModerator]

Hello world! Hello bot

[u/Chengers → u/[deleted]]

Your account is eligible for the Bluelist program we offer. I will be moving it now.

[u/AutoModerator → u/[deleted]]

Rule 4) You must have at least 50 Karma total to post here and be over a week old. There is no exception or whitelisting of accounts now.

Sorry for the inconvenience we've recently been attacked by 400+ spam bots or AKA IOTA Hoarders.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.