Anyone wants to ban spammer on forum

Ken Sharp kennybobs at o2.co.uk
Thu Oct 20 13:54:04 CDT 2011


Isn't the system for creating new accounts only?  If it's just to post 
messages then anything will be annoying.

On 20/10/11 7:48 PM, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
> Unless you want to implement a captcha system, any system is going to
> annoy the users. Bots can be programmed to answer those fields pretty
> easily; if a spammer wants to get around it, they will :)
>
> JL
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Ken Sharp<kennybobs at o2.co.uk>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 20/10/11 4:13 PM, Bruno Jesus wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:48, Jeremy Newman<jnewman at codeweavers.com>
>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I will take suggestions on other questions that regular users can answer
>>>> easily, but would stump (for a bit anyway) a bot, or bot author.
>>>
>>> Why not the good and old random math questions inside an image? For
>>> example 2 + 4 = ...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> A bot should be able to figure that out too, unless the answer is also a
>> picture.
>>
>> Maybe A+B = ?  The answer being AB.
>>
>> Don't know if any of this is possible with the software, however.
>>
>>
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