CSGO Workshop suggestion to counter spam bot

[Meove]

i just watch 3klikphilips video about this problem. from his explaination, some of legal workshop item got downvote from spambot and this bot upvote they illegal item (spam). it make illegal item got into toplist and legal item got very low, aka got zero star. you can check his video for more information


ok, my suggestion is make upvote, downvote button required CAPTCHA, "im not robot". i know, someone will say this idea just ruin workshop, but look at the bright side. this can slow them (scammer) and all rating is not from bot

[TipoKot]

Nice

[Cathulhu]

Captchas are effectively useless.
They are easily circumvented and will only deter the most basic downvote bots. That will work for maybe a week and then it will no longer be effective. Also, annoy every user trying to vote.

[Karius]

What is when you just can make upvotes and downvotes when you are a trusted gamer (with steam level 10+)

its my way to think

[Meove]

why i have 2 comments that private account and lvl 0. im scared right now

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by Fluffy_Boi:

i just watch 3klikphilips video about this problem. from his explaination, some of legal workshop item got downvote from spambot and this bot upvote they illegal item (spam). it make illegal item got into toplist and legal item got very low, aka got zero star. you can check his video for more information


ok, my suggestion is make upvote, downvote button required CAPTCHA, "im not robot". i know, someone will say this idea just ruin workshop, but look at the bright side. this can slow them (scammer) and all rating is not from bot

Fun fact, Valve tried CAPTCHAs for trading. The "protection" lasted about 2 to 3 hours before the bots were beating them. The humans had to suffer with the CAPTCHAs for the rest of the week.

But all this would have been found out had you use the search feature to discover that CAPTCHAs have already been tried and failed.

Now I understand you will try to argue that this is on a whole different section of Steam, but its still CAPTCHAs.

Originally posted by Fluffy_Boi:

why i have 2 comments that private account and lvl 0. im scared right now

Then grow up faster, private accounts are nothing to be scared of.

[SwaP]

Very nice

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Report them when you see them, block and move on.

[tósa]

There should be some sort of verification when posting to workshop. Or as 3klik said himself, words that cannot be included in the title. Also the picture could remain as an "?" for example until the picture gets verified by perhaps a steam moderator or something like that. Player mod could also be a thing, Steam could search for trusted members of the community to do some voluntary things for example going through workshop. They could have a limited power to block or perhaps note items for removal if they do not belong to workshop