Editing Talk:Proposals (section)

== Bots and spam accounts ==
* You've seen the posts. The sexually weird buy-my-book posts on this wiki added by fresh accounts. And every day or so I see the New Users log with hundreds of new names, each of the same type. "CorneliusPence7" "LolaDelgadillo7" "DebraFortner2" "DonnaFreund74" "LonaHiatt0" "AlicaMacvitie4". NameSurnameNumber. Now I'm not saying all aforementioned are definitely bots or spammers, but they are far more likely to be. Can we do something about it? Make accounts before x days old's new posts don't appear unless approved, or add some question(s) about Heroes 3 (such as "What Town does the Dwarf belong to" in the account-creation of the site to stop spam-bot accounts? - [[User:Csaros|Csaros]] ([[User talk:Csaros|talk]]) 14:15, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
** That's why you use this link to recent changes and you don't even have to see them anymore: [https://heroes.thelazy.net/index.php?namespace=2&invert=1&tagfilter=&days=30&limit=500&title=Special%3ARecentChanges recent changes]. –[[user_talk:imahero|imahero]] 19:19, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
* I think it is a good idea, but maybe the bots are using some tools like Chatgpt to create new fake accounts. And also the problems can't be too difficult. --[[User:Sanust|Sanust]] ([[User talk:Sanust|talk]]) 14:21, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
* I talked with [[User:imahero|imahero]] about a portion of this a few months ago...there is at least no issue with the # of accounts created. We will not run out of space for new accounts. But, I agree that it would be nice to have something pro-active done about the weird spam pages, instead of just relying on us all to be vigilant and delete them when they appear. --[[User:Legate|Legate]] ([[User talk:Legate|talk]]) 16:32, 31 January 2024 (UTC)