I Do Believe We've Been Invaded
 

It seems there is an attack of bots.:(

Ah, I remember these feoul creatures. They would come in my youth, and raid our forum where the defenses were weak...

ETA: holy cow, they made over a page of spam threads on N&N and Mirth? That's prolific. That's bot talent...

It seems they've returned in force, and with newfound vigour.

😂

Thankfully it looks like the mighty Mithadan and fellow admins prevailed, and the forum has been scoured of this spam-filth. All hail the great defenders of the Downs! :D

Indeed. The devious foes have been vanquished by the valour of our guardians!

Much credit belongs to Estelyn and others, who did most of the pruning. Thanks to all.

I would rep you for your speedy and heroic efforts, Mithadan, but I am told that I have to spread the rep around to others before I can do so.

I was able to rep Estelyn and mormegil.

It's nice to be a part of a legacy Middle Earth forum that hasn't been abandoned to the AI spambots Well done killing them off.

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This has got to be the most ironic choice of thread for this post. :rolleyes:

Quite so. :rolleyes:

That lefthand turn direction into the Dead Marshes was regrettable.

The parade of Socratic bots continues; WCH has attracted two in a row to say "Oh yes, [Insert User Here], you are so wise." My assumption is that they're powered by current-generation 'AI' chatbots.

I've mostly been ignoring the ones that don't drop links, but is it worth reporting them on sight? They seem to mostly make one or two posts, but it's occurred to me they might be waiting to reach a critical mass and then spam the forum massively. (The other option is that they try to spam right away, but the one-post-per-minute block catches them.)

hS