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ed56
Vonage Forum Evangelist


Joined: Jun 08, 2007
Posts: 832
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Yeah, I know what you mean about the user experience. I have resisted using captchas on the sites I run, I just check the originating URL to see if it is my form from my sites and not a script using http post and also parse data from certain fields to verify the data as one would expect (such as a telephone number, etc). I still get just a little so am thiking about using captchas.
In your case, forums are so much more free form, it is difficult to do and I think your site is a much bigger target for their spam.
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roscopco
Vonage Forum MVM


Joined: Nov 08, 2006
Posts: 1326
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The graphic porn spam the other day was the worse one I have seen on here, most of them are people trying to cell phones and numbers, but with a few moderators on here those would get deleted as soon as they get posted. With the new measures for new members maybe the spam will come down to a trickle. |
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kdf55
Vonage Forum Evangelist


Joined: Jun 30, 2007
Posts: 373
Location: Highland, IL
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It didn't help much. There was some more porn spam in one of the other subject areas and some advertising spam right next to it. |
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dconnor
Site Admin


Joined: Mar 05, 2003
Posts: 2264
Location: The Beach
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kdf55 wrote: | It didn't help much. There was some more porn spam in one of the other subject areas and some advertising spam right next to it. |
dconnor wrote: | ...I am sure that a few spammers are still in the system, so it is not over, but it should be limited and I can use data about them once they post to further refine my tools. |
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