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PL1:
--- Quote from: Le Chuck on February 15, 2013, 05:47:16 pm ---Duel
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I see what you did there -- whether you meant to or not. :duckhunt
Scott
ark_ader:
I just forget about it and look for Names that look realistic.
I got about 30K last month, my host gives me unlimited data so I'll clean out the user base when it gets to 1 million.
The funny thing is that I banned like 300 IP addresses from China and they still keep posting. All gmail too.
Maybe I should bill Google. ::)
DeLuSioNal29:
When I was moderator over at the Maximus Arcade forums a couple of years ago the spam was ridiculous. Sometimes hundreds a week. Banning IPs does not do any good for some reason either. The forums would get temporarily locked by the creator of MA so that he could "mop up".
It got to the point that the forums are locked to this day. I guess the creator of MA got tired of the battle.
I hate to endorse Captcha but wouldn't that prevent bots from signing up?
D
Le Chuck:
--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on March 12, 2013, 05:33:49 pm ---
I hate to endorse Captcha but wouldn't that prevent bots from signing up?
D
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Heh. Really? http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/inside-indias-captcha-solving-economy/1835
Firms in india that pay $2 for every captcha beat. That's $2 for every 1000 spam accounts activated. 5 years ago. I'm sure its only gotten worse.
DeLuSioNal29:
Wow. That's alarming!
One found in that page posted this in response to the article:
"CMS and forum software tend to migrate to Question-Answer based model. It's much better, because Indian captcha solvers can only crack English and Indian languages, so replacing captcha with your local language question results in 0 spam.
If you're (out of luck) operating English language site, try to create some specifically tailored question or group of questions that could be answered by your visitors, but not by Indian guys ;) "
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