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[i2amroy]

Just another suggestion:
Could it be forbidden for escaped lunatics or similar to post links? I am not sure whether that is possible how the board works but it should stop spammers as they are?

This won't help and will actually just make the problem worse as was pointed out earlier because it will just mean that the spam bot creates 5 posts that just say "This is a spambot" and then instantly create their actual spam post as soon as they are no longer an escaped lunatic. While this technically would make it easier to find and ban the bots, that is sort of like making it easier to spot shot down planes by increasing the size of the crater they make when they hit and ends up being sort of counterproductive.

[SirAaronIII]

The concept of a 'boterator' (I like this new lingo.) who can only move threads might just work. Move threads into an invisible forum only viewable by moderators (sort of like Various Nonsense) if they're spam, to be deleted later en masse by Toady in a matter of clicks. They're out of sight, it takes less time to clean up, and nobody but Today/ThreeToe has the power to delete posts or ban users. Everyone wins.

What if the boterators go nuts with the power and start moving legitimate topics into the invisiboard? What then?

[Vester]

The concept of a 'boterator' (I like this new lingo.) who can only move threads might just work. Move threads into an invisible forum only viewable by moderators (sort of like Various Nonsense) if they're spam, to be deleted later en masse by Toady in a matter of clicks. They're out of sight, it takes less time to clean up, and nobody but Today/ThreeToe has the power to delete posts or ban users. Everyone wins.

What if the boterators go nuts with the power and start moving legitimate topics into the invisiboard? What then?

Then they get banned, and stripped of all their powers. Assuming boterators are even going to be a thing, which they aren't.

[Heron TSG]

The concept of a 'boterator' (I like this new lingo.) who can only move threads might just work. Move threads into an invisible forum only viewable by moderators (sort of like Various Nonsense) if they're spam, to be deleted later en masse by Toady in a matter of clicks. They're out of sight, it takes less time to clean up, and nobody but Today/ThreeToe has the power to delete posts or ban users. Everyone wins.

What if the boterators go nuts with the power and start moving legitimate topics into the invisiboard? What then?

Considering that nothing would be deleted, it'd be an easy fix. Ban/otherwise discipline the 'boterator' responsible, move the thread back, keep on living life.

[scriver]

Heh, I thought this idea had been lost in the mass of posts following it.

Considering that nothing would be deleted, it'd be an easy fix. Ban/otherwise discipline the 'boterator' responsible, move the thread back, keep on living life.

And this is essentially the reason why I thought it would be the best choice - they wouldn't really be anle to destroy anything, but they'd still be able to jump in and clean up the face of the forum while the Great T is offline or otherwise busy.

[antymattar]

How about all the urls that are from the robots get copied and saved so that if there is ever another post with one of those urls in it then the topic gets insta deleted.

[Johuotar]

I understood that making special kind of admins who can only do limited actions technically difficult.

[Angel Of Death]

How about all the urls that are from the robots get copied and saved so that if there is ever another post with one of those urls in it then the topic gets insta deleted.

Yeah. Maybe the spambot could also get reported to Toady if that happens?

[Bauglir]

Given that distributing moderator powers that are acceptably limited is apparently not an option with the board software, it seems likely that the best system is the one we've got, with the addition of not messing around in bot threads after the first page or so to ensure it doesn't cause errors.

[antymattar]

So we wither evolve or distribute power?

[Zrk2]

I think Aqizzar is right about there being more bots then there used to be.