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General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Commander Keen on October 03, 2008, 12:25:57 AM

Title: Spam of late
Post by: Commander Keen on October 03, 2008, 12:25:57 AM: cond
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Looks like a bot got lucky on the forum captcha. Hopefully there won't be any more... Damn the Spam!
Title: Spam of late
Post by: Numsgil on October 03, 2008, 05:19:32 AM: 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
Title: Spam of late
Post by: Peter on October 03, 2008, 12:53:33 PM: Quote from: 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
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.
Title: Spam of late
Post by: Numsgil on October 03, 2008, 06:35:38 PM: 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.
Title: Spam of late
Post by: Numsgil on October 05, 2008, 06:21:18 PM: I've fixed it! The forum registration page uses reCAPTCHA now, like the wiki does. Shouldn't have any more spammers.