spam egg spam spam bacon and spam

[dcorc]

Every time I come on this site, and hit "new posts", one seems to find a new batch of spam posts for wowgold, porn, or whatever. I always report these, and the Admins/Mods here remove them with commendable speed.

However, this site clearly has real problems with spam, and the best protection from it, I've found with sites I'm involved with elsewhere, is to stop the spambots and human spamborgs from registering in the first place.

I'm very surprised to note that the site doesn't seem to have CAPTCHA image verification turned on for registration. This can now (alas) be defeated by the spammers, but there are advanced CAPTCHA hacks and alternative strategies, e.g:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=181818

and

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=124828

You might not want to have a discussion here, but I'm a bit surprised more isn't being done to fortify the "exterior walls" of the site?

Dave

[Quixotic]

Eric Idle voice - "IS THERE ANYTHING ON THE MENU THAT DOSEN'T HAVE SPAM ON IT???"

Seriously, that would be wonderful

[Hyskoa]

Just got spam mail from Helen 1.

[Arshes Nei]

Yeah I keep bringing it up, that there are plugins out there or upgrades, but I am starting to feel this is falling on deaf ears. Now to be fair I'm not sure if it's due to the pain of upgrading the forum (due to css tweaks, plug ins, other hacks etc), or the license expired for upgrades and they need to collect donations or whatnot to help with an upgrade.

[Elwell]

Just got spam mail from Helen 1.

Banned, along with Lana 1 and Laura 1.

[AsaB]

Just got a spam pm from dixmon.

[Elwell]

Just got a spam pm from dixmon.

Banned, plus three other aliases.

[emily g]

I discussed adding some kind of captcha with Pontemonti a long time ago, but we decided not to do it because of the extra trouble.

Maybe it is time to revisit the idea, but I don't do any of the updates so I don't really make the decisions on something like this.

[Elwell]

A little extra trouble for him and new users = a lot less trouble for everyone else!

[emily g]

Heh, we talked about it about a year ago, when the spam problem wasn't so bad. I'll message someone.

[S.C. Watson]

Just throwing my two cents in: I think its a wonderful idea!

[davi]

im looking into it right now. hopefully i can install it before i go to work :p

[davi]

did and done
i like nohack better than CAPTCHA gets really stupid and complicated sometimes, plus alot of bots know how to pick up on it's leetspeech

[emily g]

Thanks davi!