No.4001
So, yeah. It has come to this. Sorry everyone.
Even after adding multiple new janitors, getting one or more CP spam posts per day was just, still too much. It limits who will even be willing to visit my imageboards in a possibly traumatic way, and having it appear so often puts me at legal risk.
Even being desensitized from dealing with this so long, some of the more recent images were especially disturbing to me. I'd rather force my users to fill out a captcha than force my users and janitors to look at this shit all the time. I got it working and it's gonna be here to stay until I can think of something better.
I realize that Google's solution is not the best solution, but it's what ships with Vichan. At least one user reported that reCAPTCHA blocks their entire ISP, but they were able to get around that by enabling the uBlock Origin browser extension, strangely enough. If I can get the software updated there is an alternate provider, but there are issues with that such that it is going to end up being a major surgery I have to set aside some hours for.
I have the captcha set at the lowest difficulty setting for now. If you are having trouble posting regardless, you can report it to me at seisatsu@uboachan.net, though I can't guarantee I can do anything.
I'm sorry again that I had to do this, and I hope it doesn't significantly impact the experience for most people.
- Sei
No.4003
>>4002>anymoreAh. I meant to change it to "not as often". It sounds like i abandoned this chan otherwise lol.
Also it seems to bug out as i'm writing this. It was already checked on reload after posting my last reply. now the checkbox is ticked off and outlined in red. Unable to re-check it. Had to reload the page.
My bad for doublepost! Worth in the end.
No.4006
This has been happening for years now on other imageboards and even textboards. People have noticed the same images and links are spammed on the same sites usually on the same day. I've heard from janny on another site that they think the spam isn't automated but is being posted manually in many instances from IPs in 3rd world countries. Makes you wonder who and why?
No.4008
>>4001oh my god thank you so fucking much
No.4009
Better than nothing, thank god
No.4011
I think you need to make the captcha stronger the cp bots are still getting in
No.4014
>>4012Holy shit they might not be bots after all
No.4015
>>4014How depressing.
I'd rather have buttman instead of this shit, at least he could be somewhat funny at times. This shit is flat out disgusting.
No.4016
>>4001lmao this is immediately dated
No.4017
Wellll lol
No.4018
yep they just keep striking
No.4020
>>4013Sei there's a thread on lainchain about this exact problem right now. A few webmasters and mods are talking about it there, maybe get in touch and try to find a solution together? One suggestion was a custom captcha to prevent bots that know how to get past google's and other common captchas.
I don't remember the altchan, but I've seen a touhou captcha before, Maybe we could make a Yumme Nikki themed one?
No.4021
>>4020I love how I forgot the link, soz for the 2nd post so soon.
https://lainchan.org/hum/res/77332.html No.4022
>>4001Aged like fine wine for sure…
>>4021Feel free to call me cynical but I doubt anything great will come out of that unless somebody picks it up for real and starts working on some sort of an accountable public system.
>>4006Cheap US / EU proxies and VPNs that bypass many traditional detection methods are common even amongst the stupidiest of spammers.
No.4023
>>4022>I doubt anything great will come out of that unless somebody picks it up for real and starts working on some sort of an accountable public system.I imagine it would be pretty hard since we are talking about dealing with illegal content.
But, 77346 over on the thread on Lainchan has a solution worth trying if Sei has a GPU to spare to try it out.
No.4027
>>4015Well, he seems to have made a comeback. Dear butt man, if you are still here, do you play any vidyas? Might be fun to network outside of this parasocial relationship we have going over here.
No.4028
>>4027buttman is just a knockoff barneyfag.
No.4029
>>4028okay I feel a bit like a newfag here as I’ve never heard of this. who or what was barneyfag. that sounds incredible.
