Comments on: Thank you, spammers

By: Malaga

Malaga — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:20:07 +0000

Three rules for the spam game:

1) you can not win.
2) you can not draw.
3) you can not leave the play.

Greetings,

Antonio, from Malaga (Spain)

By: Kelson

Kelson — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:24:11 +0000

I’ve thought about it, which shows just how annoying the spam is because I hate those things. It always feels like I’m being asked to show my papers or something, and then of course there are the obstacles to accessibility. I forget where I read it, but someone remarked recently that there is no way to make a Turing test of that sort which will lock out bots without also locking out (or at least making it difficult for) people with disabilities.

That said, I know some sites have alternate methods, like audio captchas, to handle the accessibility issues, and Spam Karma will use an image test only if its first round of filtering comes out ambiguous.

It’s just very frustrating trying to keep the crapfloods out while keeping the gateway open for casual comments.

By: ShaolinTiger

ShaolinTiger — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:17:46 +0000

Spammers are goddamn annoying I have to admin, referral spammers too.

You should get one of those plugins that requires you to type the first word of the post or random letters from a turing image, those are 100% effective.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 06:40:17 +0000

OK, we’re now testing Spam Karma instead. Let’s see what happens.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:12:45 +0000

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(Kelson, feel free to delete this if it won’t be of any use.)