Clown flare is back

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[–]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.