Suspicious Activity Detected

[Brainonska511]

Twice today, the forum has stopped me and asked me to check an "I'm not a robot" captcha - what's up with that?

 

[vi edit]

Yep, same for me.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Just happened to me. WTF?

 

[LTC8K6]

Irritating as hell...

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Same here. And that's going from one page to another. What kind of redactedis that?




No profanity outside of OT & P&N.


esquared
Anandtech Forum Director

 

[KillerBee]

Robot Discrimination found here too

 

[Red Squirrel]

Happened to me too. Had a post open and came back to it later and went to respond and got a generic error (said to look in the javascript console) then I hit refresh and got the captcha.

As a side note I kinda like the new Recapcha system been seeing it on lot of sites... might implement it on my own. Easier than trying to decipher some messy text.

 

[sandorski]

happened a few times for me.

 

[daveybrat]

I've reported a ton of spam threads lately. Most look like bots. Maybe the mods are trying a new strategy to help mitigate all of the spammers?

 

[Spacehead]

An answer from a few months ago
http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/suspicious-activity-detected.2485118/#post-38447547

 

[Victorian Gray]

3 times in the past 15 minutes. Simply moving from one page to another. First time I've ever seen it.

 

[John Connor]

Just happened to me for the first time. Yes, I do use a VPN. Yet I see this has stopped the spamers. LOL!

 

[esquared]

This has happened to me in doing my moderator duties.

I have alerted the higher ups to this.

 

[Perknose]

One capcha turned me into a newt. I got better.

 

[Titillating]

Thanks for letting us know, everyone. I'll have our guys look into it; we may have set the filters to be too strict in our attempts to help the moderation team by stopping spam before it reaches their eyes. We'll get it fixed, but in the meantime, please bear with this inconvenience. Many apologies for the trouble, and thank you for your patience!

 

[dave_the_nerd]

An answer from a few months ago
http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/suspicious-activity-detected.2485118/#post-38447547

If I'm getting a captcha because of javascript and ad-blockers, I guess I can suck it up and click the button.

Interesting that it only started happening to me yesterday though. I wonder what rule definitions changed.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm just running straight Firefox and Waterfox, no NoScript or ad blockers, and I still got it, so I don't think ad-blocking is the reason.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Thanks for letting us know, everyone. I'll have our guys look into it; we may have set the filters to be too strict in our attempts to help the moderation team by stopping spam before it reaches their eyes. We'll get it fixed, but in the meantime, please bear with this inconvenience. Many apologies for the trouble, and thank you for your patience!

I've seen the captcha twice already today and there are 7 spam threads on top of the OT folder. So, well done.

 

[Titillating]

I've seen the captcha twice already today and there are 7 spam threads on top of the OT folder. So, well done.

Thank you for dutifully reporting spam. Your sarcasm has been most helpful.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I only had it happen the first time, so far so good.

 

[John Connor]

There are two things you need to do to help prevent spam. One of which you may or may not already use.

1) Moderate all first posts. When that post is approved they have free rein.

2) Use the stop forum spam database. This may be something you already use, I don't know. WHOIS says this is a Windows server which sucks because I know of a script that can help even more, but you need Linux.

 

[Spacehead]

Question: why did i get this captcha when all i was doing was reading posts, not trying to post? Are most users getting this from just reading or when trying to post a reply or start a thread?

 

[John Connor]

It's the stupid detection rules. They're too strict.