The Gay Pedophile at the Gates

Null said:
Complicated answer because xf is shit but yes. Authentication requires going through PHP to serve files - tremendously terrible.
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Why not cut XF out of it? It seems like it should be possible to write middleware that checks XF's database to see if the image or attachment requested has restricted access or not and then checks the user's xf_session to see if they're privileged enough to not get a 403. This could be something you write in Rust, C++, or some other systems language.
 
VargReallyDidNothingWrong said:
What you describe is exactly how these "residential proxies" work. Some dipshit installs Super Free Cool VPN, not knowing that he's basically letting his computer be used as a proxy for Indian and Vietnamese guys farming crypto airdrops or doing even shadier stuff.
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Luminati is basically this. They have a "free" service but they're selling your IP address to their paying customers so they can spam CP and do other shit that can get you arrested. They call themselves "ethical." They're Israeli.
 
On top of the suggestions to limit new users to text for whatever amount of time you feel comfortable with, you could also require intros and bring on a few intro moderators that have to approve them before they can post anywhere outside of the intro section. Previous forum I used to use had this specifically to prevent spammer attacks. You signed up and had an automated message in your inbox directing you to the introduction section. Just required some simple info like how you found the site and what you hoped to get out of it/contribute to it. Intro mod would then approve and new accounts were restricted to the green zone before being allowed access to the rest of the forum (or before being banned if they were a shitbag.)
 
Fat Camp Intern said:
You could also just outright ban all the major proxy providers.

Or require 1 GB data transfer for account verification. Drain the guys entire proxy account balance in one day lmao. Real residential rotating proxies aren't cheap, charge per GB, and I highly doubt this guy has access to blackmarket residential IPs with unlimited data (which cost $10k usd and which botters have to split and share with others since they can only be acquired illegally, usually by nefarious software or even malicious internet service providers)
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He's probably a fed of some kind. Three letters agencies are littered with those dickless freaks.
 
Nottafed said:
The problem with making it that you can only post with a positive reaction score is that people like HHH wouldn’t be….
You know what, forget I said anything this is a great idea
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AnOminous said:
So basically let's turn into reddit?
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If you look one comment back the concept was not allowing ppl to post images or links unless they had met certain thresholds. This guy could still post ascii freiren erotica or whatever autistic dickchoppers are doing these days. I don't think that turns us into Reddit, it's an expedient precisely bc we aren't Reddit - we don't have the army of unpaid tranny jannies Reddit does. We have 1 tranny jannie and we pay Null handsomely.
 
AnOminous said:
Luminati is basically this. They have a "free" service but they're selling your IP address to their paying customers so they can spam CP and do other shit that can get you arrested. They call themselves "ethical." They're Israeli.
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I fucking hate what we’ve done to the Internet.

Like someone installed the nicest tub conceivable by man. Water, always perfect - crystal clean, temperature to the hundredth decimal degree to your liking. Stay as long as you like, it never gets cold. When it’s time to wash, here’s all your favorites at hand. Hot towel when you’re done. Something wrought by the hands of man in the name of wellbeing of our fellows. And all you do with it is shit in the drain.
 
Angry Muda said:
SomethingAwful only charged $10 for an account
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$20 looks about right.


Edit: Beaten to it by Dear Leader. (:_(
 
wire cutters said:
Throwing an idea out there, but might it be worth it to have all new users go through a mini Turing-test, where they must have a private conversation with a current user / mod / admin, and state their intentions?

Edit: This might also serve as a good general filter / citizenship test for new users
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Shit make it a full-on mystery cult initiation ritual to awe the nukiwicacas
 
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