Re: [jokosher-devel] Spam prevention (hopefully) on the forums

[chris procter <chris-procter talk21 com>]

Hi,

The forum spam comes in waves and we're in the
middle/tail of the current "read my blog" spate, but
I've cleared 58 posts off the forum and deleted 16
user accounts since 0900 GMT Monday (its now 1700 GMT
Wednesday), there were another 15 or so spam posts on
Sunday. Its been quiet (too quiet!) since this change
happened, we'll see if thats just the current wave
moving on or if this change has confused them.

I used to think the spam problem was overstated untill
I started having to deal with it :)

chris



--- Stuart Langridge <sil kryogenix org> wrote:

> I've just added an extra stage to the forums signup,
> in which you have
> to type "jokosher" into a box. Since this isn't a
> "standard" captcha
> there won't be automatic code around to do it, so
> hopefully it should
> slow down the amount of spam on the forums; our poor
> forum admins are
> getting pretty overwhelmed with the amount of spam
> there's been
> recently. Let's see if this helps.
> 
> sil
> 
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