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:D i win!
I don't think the CAPTCHA was working a few hours ago. I posted twice and either I ignored it or did not see the math question, but my comments were still posted. I do see it now though and it is working.
We sure did get hammered this morning! Everything is all out of whack and recent posts from last night are literally burried in pages of old posts. I hope Sb can put everything back in order for us.
That's what always happens to me (no CAPTCHA), as I have the BLF cookie set to 'protected' (i. e. never to be deleted), so that I don't need to log-in every time I return to this forum.
what about do a golpe and elect kreisler as new admin? he is so active to block the spam first that the bots to their dirty job xD
joking ur job is really appreciated sb, ty :)
golpe? you mean coup d'eta? i am always asleep when the spammer do their attacks. missed them all. when i wake up at noon :D all spammers already killed. and it looks that you guys had a lotta fun counter attacking them.
:)
Regarding the math question: instead of being asked one time every session wouldn't it be better to get a question lets say every 10th post? This way the robots probably will come to a halt and the manual spammer will get slowed down.
Since most of us don't make more than 10 posts a day the hassle for the average user should be minimal.
Just a thought...
One CAPTCHA per every 10 posts sounds like a good idea to me.
I guess they would be clever enough to set their robots once they learn on how the CAPTCHA works. 10 posts or X posts does not matter . We should bring in some randomness to halt the loop.
Cap posting at say five posts in any ten minutes, no one really needs to post more than that and it gives everybody a chance to kick the spammer before the whole board gets messed up...
5 Posts Per 10 Min. sounds like a Plan.
Lower the number to kick someone out to 2 people that have "marked as spam". As far as CAPTCHA goes, it doesn't seem to be working. Sooner or later, the realization has to come that to not allowing newbies to post, till their first 3 are approved. That stops the bots from hitting the forums, but it might drive a moderator crazy. Yes, sooner or later, it looks like someone has to be a mod. Also, maybe the automatic feature of becoming a new member needs to be shut down and make it so a new person has to send an email asking to be approved, to become one.
It's all a hassle, but so is all this spamming going on. Is it better to be a hassle for a newbie, or for a mod, or is it better to drive the members nuts every day/night?
+1
Excellent idea.
Some bots can get past visual captchas like blurry text. Drupal seems to use particularly easy visual captchas of text, unlike re-captcha which at least changes all the time. There are drupal modules that can ask questions that should do the trick. We should be trying a few different ones until we find something that works.
Well, something has to be done. The board is getting all messed up. Participation will suffer if we don't get on top of it.
I volunteer to do whatever is asked of me.
almostFoy
Love the limit, working well, I've helped blast a few spammers before they have ruined more than a couple of threads :)
The limit on editing your own post afterwards is a pain tho. Most of my stuff needs correcting once or twice to make it nearly readable!
I don't get hit by the 1-minute rule very often, but it is usually on editing. It would be nice if it didn't apply to editing.
I'm glad to see spam way down and it is worth some small inconvenience. I haven't seen the board hit by 5 spammers at once, so I don't think it is likely the spammers will just increase the number of accounts in order to get around the 1-minute rule. That's just not how they are set up.
What he said .
^that doesn't sound good but are you using multiple accounts now?
So did your original account get deleted? I think sb can bring it back.