Spam of late

[Commander Keen]

 

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Looks like a bot got lucky on the forum captcha. Hopefully there won't be any more... Damn the Spam!  

[Numsgil]

I don't think it's entirely bots.  My guess is that it's actual people.  They're using gmail accounts and the general behavior doesn't seem entirely consistent.  I've set it up so I have to validate any new accounts.  If I'm right and it's actual people getting passed the captcha, they should give up.  Otherwise I have to think of a better solution.  Make the captcha harder

[Peter]

I don't think it's entirely bots.  My guess is that it's actual people.  They're using gmail accounts and the general behavior doesn't seem entirely consistent.  I've set it up so I have to validate any new accounts.  If I'm right and it's actual people getting passed the captcha, they should give up.  Otherwise I have to think of a better solution.  Make the captcha harder

Why would someone ever just dumb-spam any forum. Probably has some time to waste.
Why doesn't anyone have compassion with this pitiful idiot  . It is clear it hasn't got a live.

How much spam-bots/pitiful idiots have there come through anyway.

[Numsgil]

They do it to give their websites a boost on search engines.

It started a few days ago, but since I put manual validation of new users on last night, I had like 8 spam users register.  I think I have a solution, but I need to do some PHP programming which isn't my strongpoint.

[Numsgil]

I've fixed it!  The forum registration page uses reCAPTCHA now, like the wiki does.  Shouldn't have any more spammers.