freestyler105
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Or David could just implement a captcha...
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~NeonFire372~
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Yeah, almost every forum has a captcha now... it would keep most of the bots out.
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Australasian time zones. I see dozens of spam pop up during Aussie/NZ afternoon evenings when there are no mods on. That's a good start.
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Both VERY Good ideas!
Dark Night
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Captcha??
It's the pictures you look at and type in the letters/numbers you see. It's supposed to be almost impossible for a bot to correctly do.
I log into CF and see this thread in the index and just above it was a bot's thread titled Èäåè ñîçäà Ãèÿ áèçÃåñà ...lol. What exactly is the bot achieving by spamming mass amounts of random text? I'm lost.
Atleast someone removed it under a minute after being reported though but I'm not sure how long the thread had been there, probably shoulda thought of that haha.
Atleast someone removed it under a minute after being reported though but I'm not sure how long the thread had been there, probably shoulda thought of that haha.
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
is what Wikipedia says, and what captcha.net say...
though other take exception to this since a turing test is a test given to humans to tell computers and himans apart.
the turing test is applied to chat bots for instance to determin if youre talking to a real person or just to a program.
thus other have sugested it actually stands for
Completely Automated Program to Tell Computers and Humans Apart.
also known as a reverse Turing test...
also they aren't infallible, and most bot makers have found ways to defeat them.
Rubber314Chicken
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or something easier to do than a captcha, have them type in a phrase in a box.... like it would say "type 'banana' in the box to the right"
most bots couldn't do that, and I'm sure if banana was a picture file there would be no way to bot register.
most bots couldn't do that, and I'm sure if banana was a picture file there would be no way to bot register.
