Clown flare is back

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[–]GuyWhite 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

But shut off all those long horseshit AI/troll posts.

[–]Jiminy[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Those are annoying but this ruins the site so isn't the way to combat it

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Having 60% of posts and comments be nonsense AI spam ruins it way worse than having to check a box sometimes

[–]hfxB0oyA 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yep.

[–]Jiminy[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Wrong. But this could be ok if the clown flare thing only had to be clicked on say every fifteen minutes or every half hour, instead of every couple minutes. With the long ai posts I have to click the block button. But it's not as often. I don't like the clown flare thing because I will have a post written out then hit save and it won't go thru.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Block button doesn't work when the use a different username for each post, which they were doing. The cloudflare thing is annoying but it's better than the AI and spam posts, trust me.

[–]Jiminy[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think it's just humans using ai to make their posts anyway, they can just click on the I'm a human box easily. I guess the idea is to annoy them so they leave tho? That annoys all us humans tho. Maybe that's ok and you figure we really want to be here if we deal with it? No other websites do this with clown flare. Very odd.

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

The spam posts went from 100 an hour to 2 an hour after I turned on cloudflare, it very clearly had a positive effect.

No other sites do this because we don't have any money or employees or anything. Reddit has hundreds of full time paid staff. Most other forum websites of our size or larger also have paid staff. We run on $120/mo total so it's not going to run like a million dollar operation.

[–]pocketpool 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Cloudflare's implementation has drastically reduced spam posts, demonstrating its positive impact. However, the lack of resources and paid staff limits the forum's ability to match the capabilities of larger platforms with dedicated personnel.