New AI Bot Members
We appear to be getting a slew of new members that are only AI Bots.
This is against our policy and I am deleting these when I am satisfied that they are AI and not humans.
Unfortunately I am doing this manually, which is slow, and happens after the fact, it isn't a prevention. I've yet to find any automated process or system setting that is effective against it. Having the forum open to new registrations, even with Captcha turned on, appears to be sufficient for AI bots to be able to register and post.
If the numbers climb then I can turn off new registrations for a period to enable clean up, but turning them off permanently would be fatal to the forum.
I'll keep you informed of any changes as we go. For the moment, thank you for your patience!
-Owen
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