And can't find the other... Probably nuked by the admin.
Are they getting "smarter"?
Is it time to upgrade our boarding engine?
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: BucklingSpring on Sun, 03 April 2011, 11:05:49
Quote from: ripster;323766
You push the little red triangle on the left. Type "Spam". Send.
Ok bot how do they get there in the first place?
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: Lpb45 on Sun, 03 April 2011, 11:10:08
they even make profiles and upload pics.
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: BucklingSpring on Sun, 03 April 2011, 11:14:37
I just logged Out and went to the registering process. We don't use any "protection" like reCAPTCHA or alike. At least not as as far as I went in the registering process. I didn't make a complete submission.
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: panda-R on Sun, 03 April 2011, 12:05:46
Quote from: ripster;323779
You should start your own keyboard forum.
Like Runeazn's. The Russian Porn there is pretty impressive. (http://www.clickykeyboards.tk/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=2)
PandaR didn't call him "Princess" for nothing!
lulz poor runeazn, i miss that little princess guy thing. Whatever happened to her?
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: panda-R on Sun, 03 April 2011, 12:34:36
PETER CHAO my hero!
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: iMav on Sun, 03 April 2011, 13:01:09
And can't find the other... Probably nuked by the admin.
Are they getting "smarter"?
Is it time to upgrade our boarding engine?
We have a, fairly simple, question. I am looking to implement something else (more sophisticated then captcha), but have yet to do so....spambot annoyance here at GH is pretty light.
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: iMav on Sun, 03 April 2011, 14:57:17
Ok. New Human Verification System is in place. ;)
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: Hak Foo on Sun, 03 April 2011, 16:59:45
IME, a simple random-math thing like this is a surprisingly effective deterrent:
if(!$_POST["a"] || !$_POST["b"] || $_POST["c"]!=$_POST["a"]+$_POST["b"]) die("please fill out the damned captcha so we don't have to do the scrambled letter ones!");
Yeah, if it was WORTH the effort to target the site and realize "fields A, B, and C must be set together in specific ways", you could defeat it, but I doubt there's enough value in doing so. And you could just replace the + with a - and/or rename fields and stymie them again.
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: iMav on Sun, 03 April 2011, 17:08:55
For the most part, I believe the "spambots" are actually registering manually (real person). We'll see what rate we get them now with the new verification in place.
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: kill will on Sun, 03 April 2011, 17:16:56
i liked the one bot that posted about air jordans in nonsensical engrish. he seemed like a cool robot.
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: Ekaros on Sun, 03 April 2011, 17:21:48
Ok, that's one cool captcha ;D
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: mr_a500 on Sun, 03 April 2011, 17:34:50
Gah! Flash based "captcha"! If geekhack had that crap back when I first came here, I never would have been able to become a member. I use alternative operating systems (Amiga, BeOS, Haiku, soon MorprhOS).
Flash is evil - a CPU sucking evil proprietary curse that's ruining the internet experience for anybody not using Windows, MacOS or Linux.
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: BucklingSpring on Mon, 04 April 2011, 11:24:24
Quote from: iMav;323854
Ok. New Human Verification System is in place. ;)
Cool... Let see if the bad ass smart Russians will crack the code.
:-)
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: BucklingSpring on Mon, 04 April 2011, 11:29:03
Quote from: mr_a500;323949
Gah! Flash based "captcha"! If geekhack had that crap back when I first came here, I never would have been able to become a member. I use alternative operating systems (Amiga, BeOS, Haiku, soon MorprhOS).
Some others can't be resolved by color blind people. It's always a matter of weighting the annoyance of the spam problem vs the annoyance you impose on your users to prevent it.
As iMav is pointing it out, this is not a big problem here.
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: digitalleftovers on Mon, 04 April 2011, 11:36:56
I think this was an excellent choice. It doesn't alienate colorblind people, and it seems to not only be difficult to crack, but I have never seen it before (rare is better than common).
If you had not posted this, I was going to suggest the cat/dog identification captcha.
Title: How does spambot posting on GH?
Post by: BucklingSpring on Mon, 04 April 2011, 16:54:28
I like the puzzle thing.
I think I will register over and over just to solve it once more. :baby: