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Junrall



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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 5:10 pm    Post subject: Blocking Spam!? Reply with quote

Is there a way to block the spammers?
Getting sick of seeing the crap.
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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 6:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like it's time for CAPTCHA.
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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Fri May 07, 2010 5:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

was never given the permission to block spammers
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