Anyone wants to ban spammer on forum

Jerome Leclanche adys.wh at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 13:48:06 CDT 2011


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:
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> On 20/10/11 4:13 PM, Bruno Jesus wrote:
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>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:48, Jeremy Newman<jnewman at codeweavers.com>
>>  wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> Why not the good and old random math questions inside an image? For
>> example 2 + 4 = ...
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> A bot should be able to figure that out too, unless the answer is also a
> picture.
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> Maybe A+B = ?  The answer being AB.
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> Don't know if any of this is possible with the software, however.
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