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Junrall Joined: 21 Sep 2009 Posts: 136 Location: North West Oregon, USA |

Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 5:10 pm Post subject: Blocking Spam!? |

Is there a way to block the spammers? Getting sick of seeing the crap. _________________ Good God! You shot my leg off!

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Pulseczar Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 37 |

Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 6:19 pm Post subject: |

Looks like it's time for CAPTCHA. _________________ http://www.customtf.net/

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GiffE Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 141 Location: USA, CT |

Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 6:51 pm Post subject: |

Pulseczar wrote:
Looks like it's time for CAPTCHA.

There actually is already a captcha, its got that "select all power ups in the pictures below."
That script has obviously been figured out, which is why I always make my own spam bot checks. Custom ones take longer to be bypassed.
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Pulseczar Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 37 |

Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 7:30 pm Post subject: |

How did it figure out the powerup thing? Maybe these spam accounts predate the powerup CAPTCHA? Only way it could figure out the powerup thing, I would think, is for someone to specifically write it to recognize this site's CAPTCHA. Why would anyone do that, unless they were trying to annoy someone here? Of course, there's a possibility that it's not even a bot, but an actual person making those posts.
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GiffE Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 141 Location: USA, CT |

Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 9:36 pm Post subject: |

Pulseczar wrote:
How did it figure out the powerup thing? Maybe these spam accounts predate the powerup CAPTCHA? Only way it could figure out the powerup thing, I would think, is for someone to specifically write it to recognize this site's CAPTCHA. Why would anyone do that, unless they were trying to annoy someone here? Of course, there's a possibility that it's not even a bot, but an actual person making those posts.

It was able to figure it out cause inside3d uses a public script called KittenAuth. KittenAuth makes those images and as with all public captcha's they eventually get worked around by bots.
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Error Inside3D Staff Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 558 Location: VA, USA

Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 5:41 am Post subject: |

was never given the permission to block spammers _________________ Inside3D : Knowledge Is Power Darkplaces Documentation Wiki

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