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Lack of spambots
« on: September 30, 2012, 12:49:16 pm »
I haved noticed a lack of spam bots lately.
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Re: Lack of spambots
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2012, 12:51:57 pm »
Now that you point it out, it's totally true
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Re: Lack of spambots
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2012, 02:19:42 pm »
Theres none of the really interesting ones. I wonder if they just stopped bothering or if the spambot protection is working
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Re: Lack of spambots
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2012, 04:03:15 pm »
it's the latter. i usually delete a spam account or two that's caught by the filter trying to sign up every time i log on.
anywhere that doesn't filter ends up being flooded, no matter how obscure it may be.
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Re: Lack of spambots
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2012, 04:26:37 pm »
Quote from: annoyingcalc on September 30, 2012, 12:49:16 pm
I haved noticed a lack of spam bots lately.

You want more? ???

Kidding aside, I hope the spam protection isn't blocking real users from registering, though. I know some have to fill a CAPTCHA to access the site.
« Last Edit: September 30, 2012, 04:27:39 pm by DJ_O »
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Re: Lack of spambots
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2012, 04:37:28 pm »
lose the game easily in 42 simple steps

JK. Yeah, that's kinda weird. A year ago we had to slain like 3-4 spambots a day and now there's none of them.
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Re: Lack of spambots
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2012, 04:45:33 pm »
That is nothing compared to Christmas 2005 on OCRemix forums, though.  (about 5000 bot posts in 2 days)
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Re: Lack of spambots
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2012, 04:52:54 pm »
speaking of spam floods, old forums that are inhabited by nothing else can be pretty funny sometimes. here one that was particularly great:
check out this post and then take a look here :P
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Re: Lack of spambots
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2012, 05:10:10 pm »
In a few years we might actually need new anti spam measures :P

And I think bots detects dead or inactive forums, because I noticed the less active a forum is, the more bots it gets. Probably taking advantage of the fact that moderators are gone, so nobody will delete them.
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Re: Lack of spambots
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2012, 07:10:24 pm »
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Re: Lack of spambots
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2012, 07:30:08 pm »
We need that system. I wonder if someone will make a mod to the post rating system to enable something like that
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Re: Lack of spambots
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2012, 09:02:51 pm »
On my website i have for agains spam-bots some input fields like with the name email and in the style it is display:none;, so if you enter there something the server will block you out and since then i didn't had a spam-post anymore (the spam-bots got through googles recaptcha....)
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Re: Lack of spambots
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2012, 11:38:45 pm »
Quote from: DJ_O on September 30, 2012, 04:26:37 pm
Quote from: annoyingcalc on September 30, 2012, 12:49:16 pm
I haved noticed a lack of spam bots lately.
You want more? ???.

Yes I do

Spoiler For Disregard please:
[quote authoer =SPAMBOT2448]
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[/quote]
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Re: Lack of spambots
« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2012, 11:48:13 pm »
Quote from: Sorunome on September 30, 2012, 09:02:51 pm
On my website i have for agains spam-bots some input fields like with the name email and in the style it is display:none;, so if you enter there something the server will block you out and since then i didn't had a spam-post anymore (the spam-bots got through googles recaptcha....)
My anti-spam system generates a random question regarding the position of keys on a TI-83 plus ("Key between [6] and [(-)]" for example) along with a link to an image of the calculator.

It's worked well so far ;D
« Last Edit: September 30, 2012, 11:48:20 pm by Deep Thought »
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Re: Lack of spambots
« Reply #14 on: September 30, 2012, 11:49:56 pm »
Quote from: Deep Thought on September 30, 2012, 11:48:13 pm
Quote from: Sorunome on September 30, 2012, 09:02:51 pm
On my website i have for agains spam-bots some input fields like with the name email and in the style it is display:none;, so if you enter there something the server will block you out and since then i didn't had a spam-post anymore (the spam-bots got through googles recaptcha....)
My anti-spam system generates a random question regarding the position of keys on a TI-83 plus ("Key between [6] and [(-)]" for example) along with a link to an image of the calculator.

It's worked well so far ;D
The user still has to enter stuff so that the server knows it's not a spam-bot. :P
i'd be curious how well hidden input-fields alone would work, as mine are combined with a captcha
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