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Liam K.

August 21, 2021 19:26

I'm surprised that nobody has posted anything about it so I guess I'll just say something.

Bots are a major problem here on khan. People have been using them to incessantly spam and upvote projects and comment threads. MineKhan now has several thousand more votes than it used to, and at least two chat thread that I know of have been spammed with 100s of comments, including my subpage [6652809926492160] and the Contest homepage [5745407636209664]. These comments all direct users to a discord chat.

I've seen that the dev team have taken steps to limit who can comment and vote by requiring a verified email, but obviously thats not enough.

I'm not very familiar with how the backend of khan works, but perhaps requiring a recaptcha would do the trick? Anyway, just thought I would put it out there, thanks.

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CowboysFan232

August 21, 2021 19:36

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I've seen them in at least 4 threads, it is incredibly annoying
Someone

August 22, 2021 01:34

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Thank you so much for reporting this!
F4stB01

August 22, 2021 02:14
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Yeah, ikr. First in sub threads, then in user programs, then spamming in comments. I think all of the bots today were from the same person, tbh. Annoying.
x.asper

August 22, 2021 11:22
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It seems like someone decides when & where the bots spam....
Μɑɠɱɑ

August 24, 2021 17:31
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Of course. There's probably a main account that's directing a couple of thousand bots. They don't really go random. Maybe it's the one person that likes a program/comment and it gets lots of votes.
Evan Lewis

September 01, 2021 19:06
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Hi Liam K,

Thanks for sharing this!

Our team is aware of the issue and we believe we have resolved the situation. Unfortunately it's not possible to completely eliminate this sort of behavior, but we have implemented new security measures that should greatly reduce the potential impact that bot accounts can have.

If you see any weird behavior that could be indicative of spam users, please flag the posts and report the users via a new support ticket so that we can investigate it. We take moderation very seriously, and creating accounts for the purposes of spamming other users is a violation of our Terms of Service and will lead to a permanent suspension from the site.

Additionally, please do not share or discuss specific users in our public forums. This is a violation of privacy and is not a very kind thing to do. In order to prevent further off-topic discussion, we've removed some of the comments from this thread and have closed it for further comments.

Thanks for your help!

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