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 Post subject: CAPTCHA on posts
PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:41 pm 
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I'm not kidding. We need it.

Not to be pushy or anything, but IIRC there is a phpBB module that is a captcha system for posts. Just don't get one of these ones: http://www.toallwhoseekit.net/cgi-bin/sq-pix

The above one is killer (it keeps thinking I'm a machine!)

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 Post subject: Re: CAPTCHA on posts
PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:45 pm 
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I agree we need it :^o

How many bots did you see coming past last month? I've wasted much more time on ban evaders than on those things.

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 Post subject: Re: CAPTCHA on posts
PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:10 pm 
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I know of one particular ban evader...

I've seen at least eight. Most for different WoW gold sites.

The cheapest gold you can get is the gold you get yourself, people.

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It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.

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 Post subject: Re: CAPTCHA on posts
PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:40 pm 
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I second (or third?) the need for a post/signup CAPTCHA.

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 Post subject: Re: CAPTCHA on posts
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I negate 01000101's second by casting my vote in dislike of the CAPTCHA.

They're annoying and I can never read them.

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 Post subject: Re: CAPTCHA on posts
PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:53 pm 
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I negate 01000101's second by casting my vote in dislike of the CAPTCHA.

They're annoying and I can never read them.



NoOoOoo.

I agree with the annoy factor, I retract a bit, and vote only in favor of them for signup.

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 Post subject: Re: CAPTCHA on posts
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Captcha for posts would be the most painful thing ever. End of story.

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 Post subject: Re: CAPTCHA on posts
PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:49 pm 
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How about for first post?

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It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.

I wish I could add more tex


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 Post subject: Re: CAPTCHA on posts
PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:17 am 
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I've seen at least eight. Most for different WoW gold sites.

That was over a period of two months. You should seriously get unplugged since most of them got deleted within 15 minutes.

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I second (or third?) the need for a post/signup CAPTCHA.
There is a bot test for the first post already, which is nonstandard. There's a captcha for signup. If a bot can readily defeat a captcha like that, then it is pointless to give him more since it will be most likely that they will be beaten as well.

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 Post subject: Re: CAPTCHA on posts
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Well, for instance I can create several accounts "by hand" and then make some bot use them to spam around...

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 Post subject: Re: CAPTCHA on posts
PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:24 am 
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I've seen a ton of fake link/topic names (like instead of the actual post being "Help in PMODE", it is shown as "HAHA" or something like that). Not just in the past 2 months either.

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 Post subject: captcha's suck big time
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Well, for instance I can create several accounts "by hand" and then make some bot use them to spam around...
But that's too improductive for bot operators. Imagine spending a 40-hour week creating spam accounts.

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I've seen a ton of fake link/topic names (like instead of the actual post being "Help in PMODE", it is shown as "HAHA" or something like that). Not just in the past 2 months either.
I assume you mean that the last post display doesn't match the actual thread, that's because it shows the summary rather than the topic title. And every n00b is free to put "HELP" in there and invite bashes, but those aren't bots (Or am I a bot? :mrgreen:).

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 Post subject: Oh, I see what you mean.
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what a completely unnecessary thing to have (the topic "summary") as the topic title.

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 Post subject: Re: CAPTCHA on posts
PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:13 am 
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Seriously, we should get rid of the reply subject or grey it out to the default or something! It drives me nuts!

EDIT: My god not another bot selling runescape gold and powerleveling...

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