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Preventing Forum Spam-bots?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the evolved-beyond-captcha dept.

A concerned reader asks: "Recently it seems that forums have become the new target for spam bots advertising everything from porn to casinos. The forums that I admin are constantly harassed by these bots even though you must enter the visual confirmation code code (the picture with letters/numbers) as well as reply to an e-mail in order to register. This only started a few months ago so I'm suspecting that some new spam program was released that somehow gets around these anti-bot measures. How can I get rid of these annoying bots?"

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  1. Re:Please use correct terminology by Shut+the+fuck+up! · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Give me a fucking break. Someone always pulls out the "WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE BLIND PEOPLE" bullshit when this topic comes up. It's too bad, but I'd rather prevent my BBS from being overrun by spam than worry about accomodating a few blind people. Audio captchas? Hey, that discriminates against me because I don't use speakers. WHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE PEOPLE WITHOUT SPEAKERS???

  2. Re:What email addresses are they using? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You want me to register for both your forum and a webmail service? Fuck you and your site that I'd never visit again.

    Not everyone thinks gmail is the greatest thing since leavened bread.