LydiaFatPuppy:
It's not just that the moderation team of this forum seem to not be spending time and efforts to try and stop these scams
What is the direct intentions of letting me scammers run around the place is it because in reality FF is mostly a ghost town and if you're a move all the bots there is very few people
If that is a yes then remove these goddambots already so that the servers and community can fill with good people so we don't have to be spammed with a million Nigerian bots and fake accounts
Even if it is simple as every time your profile picture or username is being rendered on the HTML a hard-coded verified or warning unverified appears next to your account and the other major thing is to have ranks that say how regular of an ff user you are
Giving users the tools to immediately verify invalidate users and to tell when somebody make an account two weeks ago or is actually active on this site
Seriously hiccup you're destroying your site without it leaving it as a desolate pit that is the prime example of the Dead internet theory at least on a small community like this you have the ability to that stuff and you have full control over the websites functions unlike services like discord or telegram where people are constrained within the generalised platform
Give us the tools to protect ourselves and protect new users and old users
Thanks for bring this up and for your suggestions. May of these tools we have already, although I appreciate that they could be improved. For instance, a member's profile will show when they joined the site and how often they log in. We also have the verified member feature.
We have numerous checks on registration, including whether the registering user is using a VPN or datacenter, also whether their country of origin matches other information such as their browser time zone and language.
The mods work incredibly hard at keeping spanners and troll of the site. Fomr a quick count up of the last three days is see they've made:
10th May - 7 IP bans
9th May - 4 IP bans
8th May - 7 IP bans
This doesn't include all the warnings and suspensions given.
The problem we have is the same as for all similar social websites, that it's a balancing act between having a free and easy sign up, and keeping trolls off. For example, we could go down the route of multi-factor authentication, where we send a code to your phone which you need to type in in order to sign up. However, I'm pretty sure this wouldn't go down well with members who value their privacy when coming to a site like this.
Anyway, I take your point and we will continue to develop new ways of keeping out scammers and trolls.
