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Ian

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23rd Nov 13 at 20:29

Got as massive amount of spam sign ups on Puma People.

Did have a question in there to try and cut it down, just asked to name a city in England, Scotland or Wales.

Worked for a bit but they're now starting to come through.

Changed it to airports and its gone from a signup every five minutes to half an hour.

Thinking about London streets but there are 28k of them which might be a heavy query to check the answer.

Can't think of anything else I can do which isn't geography. Anything vaguely difficult might put genuine people off, and I can't think of anything to do with the car which can't be guessed within 2 minutes.

Steve

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23rd Nov 13 at 20:31

simple maths question

corsa-torque

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23rd Nov 13 at 20:36

With Steve on this one, the old forum I used to admin was set to what's 12 x 3, as simple as that is, cut down the spam sign ups massively

John

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23rd Nov 13 at 20:40

If the bots are getting past airports then surely a simple maths question won't do any good?

What about the ones that ask a word and then a house number, I know they can be bypassed but surely not quite as easily.

What about a hidden question that a bot would fill in but a human couldn't see, deny if it's filled in.

[Edited on 23-11-2013 by John]

Gary

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23rd Nov 13 at 20:41

Admin verify signups?

Maybe an easy ish Anagram?

Ian

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23rd Nov 13 at 20:41

Wanted to steer away from maths, just because it appears so easy to automate.

At least with a general knowledge question you at least have to have some sort of lookup.

Cavey

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23rd Nov 13 at 21:00

Agree with John on the second idea, a hidden question that a bot detects, but isn't visible

Ian

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23rd Nov 13 at 21:09

Not got huge amounts of control over the actual question format, board software is terrible and I don't want to go making alterations to the code.

Russ

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23rd Nov 13 at 21:44

What does the fox say?

Gary

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23rd Nov 13 at 21:57

Not a bad Idea though. Needs to be a question that has an obvious answer but only to a person. Quite hard to think of one that would make sense to everyone.

Ian

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24th Nov 13 at 01:19

Can't even use things about the car because if you're going there for advice, you probably don't know that already.

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24th Nov 13 at 17:10

If the spam is that bad then it might be worth resorting to reCAPTCHA.

Ste

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24th Nov 13 at 23:47

Surely have the question as a .gif instead of text and mask it in a way to make it a bit harder.

like 2+2= so even simpletons can do it.

I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.

Ste

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24th Nov 13 at 23:50

I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.

pow

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25th Nov 13 at 08:39

Or many images arranged in a table

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25th Nov 13 at 08:46

reCAPTCHA has plugins and SDKs which are ready to use. Why re-invent the wheel when there's already a solution out there?

Gaz

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26th Nov 13 at 12:23

Based on the image idea, can you not simply have a picture of say an animal and ask them to name it in the box, obviously don't name the dog image as dog.jpg but it could work, yes?

Dom

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26th Nov 13 at 14:06

If you can't go down the honeypot route then use a captcha as Ed mentioned, plenty to choose from - areyouahuman.com, Asirra, Picatcha, reCaptcha etc

Ian

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26th Nov 13 at 14:40

Mostly because I really hate those ones with the bendy words and I don't want to put users through it.

Don't even really want a challenge question but it does suffer quite badly.

Dom

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26th Nov 13 at 16:04

Should see if there is a Honeypot plugin available for the forum software; should cut the spam down a little and means you can get away with a simple challenge question.

Half Pint

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27th Nov 13 at 12:54

Tube Stations in London ?

Leighton

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