Better verification for forum access

The forum is getting overrun with spam. Please make it a little harder to set up spambots. It's becoming a serious issue. This is the free games LFG subforum as of posting: All but one of the threads in this image are spam.

Are your mods asleep? Do you have no measures for this? This has been going on for two hours, the subforum is unusable.

I'm pretty sure that the devs don't watch the user forum 24/7. Roll20 is based in Nevada, U.S.A., so they're on Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -7).

But they have users from all over the world, and having basic moderator presence around the clock is hardly an impossible task.

I agree, and as spammers and other internet low-lifes keep proliferating, they (Roll20, not the low-lifes) should probably institute a full-time, real-person presence to back up any automated monitoring that they may have.

This is still an issue, the same Thai gambling sites are still spamming the forums.

I should add that I saw a marked increase in bot activity on the forums after the Discord integration - there might be a link there.

9 hours. 9 hours.

You can click REPORT on the individual posts --- if you want to risk opening the thread. "Report" is the function of Roll20 that will bring it to the current staff's attention faster, than anything else. 

I do report them, and it does little to stem the tide when the verification and moderation are utterly insufficient.

I have never seen a forum with a bot problem this bad. Roll20 needs to do better.

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