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Sophisticated spam bot detection #23
Description
Currently, spam bots are dealt with using a blacklist of words whose mention gets anyone banned instantly. This is a suboptimal approach, because
- it prevents server members from genuinely discussing about the blacklisted topics
- real members accidentally mentioning one such word don't get any explanation or appeal possibility
Here's the Discord message that sparked this discussion: https://discord.com/channels/273534239310479360/461038099682689054/787343206660440136
By implementing the spam bot detection in Ferris, more sophisticated detection could be done than what Carl-bot (aka Turtle) supports. To be precise, members mentioning the "forbidden" words won't be banned if they have sent a certain number of messages. This is to distinguish between genuine human server members and people/bots who just joined to spam.
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kangalio commentedon Feb 10, 2021
Is this sort of sophisticated spam bot detection desired? Is the proposed behavior (members over a certain number of messages won't be banned from forbidden words) good, or is there a better alternative? And even, is spam bot detection still required? It seems like there is much less spam bot traffic on the server than there used to be.