Anyone wants to ban spammer on forum

[Jerome Leclanche]

I don't subscribe to websites that have annoying captchas either way;
and many people are like that. Bot authors have proved they can beat
any system; and captchas (recaptcha especially) has proved itself as
one of the most effective and unintrusive free captcha systems.

JL

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Ken Sharp <kennybobs at o2.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>