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| AnonJr |
Posted - 20 June 2008 : 11:04:35
I've been catching up on my reading this morning, and one of the articles I came across was this one from SitePoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/captcha-problems-alternatives
In particular, I like that it highlights the good and the bad for each option. It seems a timely article given how often people come here looking for anti-spam solutions.
What do y'all think?< |
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| Cliff |
Posted - 03 July 2008 : 07:42:24
I too require registration to post, and they are forced to verify their email account. The site gets many visits (about 20,000 page views a day - pretty good for my content), but still very few (almost no) spammers.< |
| Astralis |
Posted - 02 July 2008 : 15:39:18
I used to think like Cliff until I got attacked by spammer after spammer posting hundreds of links in hundreds of topics. I now require registration, don't permit Hotmail.com and Yahoo.com domains, and also require the birthdate. I haven't had spam in a very long time and I still have people joining.< |
| Cliff |
Posted - 20 June 2008 : 12:10:08
What's also interesting, let's agree we come up with a "method" that ensures the registrant is human - what's to stop them from turning the account over to a bot? Agreed, it's a lot of trouble, but...
I'm not that interested in trying to keep the bots out, I feel it creates too unfriendly an environment for real people. My site is not geared toward web savvy folks, they have a hard enough time with a bare bones registration system. I removed the Captcha in favor for a simple what is 2 plus 2 question. If a bot gets in, I remove it. My site is small (less than 3,000 users), and the only real trouble I've had is with what appear to have been real users who registered and spammed once.< |
| ruirib |
Posted - 20 June 2008 : 11:26:19
Well it kinda shows there aren't any really good solutions to the bot issue  .< |
