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Spam collections

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Hundreds of new collections have been made in the last few hours, all consisting of a single film and all with seemingly random letters for titles.

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Re: Spam collections

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Thanks for alerting us to those -- I don't know what these spammers get out of doing things like that, but it's been cleaned up, and we've made a bug report to better alert us to (and protect us from) nonsense like that in the future.

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Re: Spam collections

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Probably someone testing his bot programming skills. You might want to add captcha verification when creating new collections.

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Re: Spam collections

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kritikos wrote:
Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:47 pm
td888 wrote:
Thu Sep 10, 2020 12:47 pm
You might want to add captcha verification when creating new collections.
If you add captchas, please show them only to new/untrusted accounts.
Fair enough, but do you really make that many collections regularly? For me it's once in awhile, a captcha wouldn't bother me.

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Re: Spam collections

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td888 wrote:
Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:25 pm
kritikos wrote:
Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:47 pm
td888 wrote:
Thu Sep 10, 2020 12:47 pm
You might want to add captcha verification when creating new collections.
If you add captchas, please show them only to new/untrusted accounts.
Fair enough, but do you really make that many collections regularly? For me it's once in awhile, a captcha wouldn't bother me.
I think it is safe to say that there are many more frequent-real-collection-starters than there are spam-collection-starters. I'm doing something in Collections nearly every day and this was the first mass-spamming I can remember. I can't even think of any other spam one-offs off the top of my head.

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