Spam registration wave

[xXShaddowTXx]

You know what this means though, right?

We're gaining some internet presence.

Spam bots don't mean internet presence. It just means your forum is on Google [and not necessarily high ranking either].

[Tarius]

You know what this means though, right?

We're gaining some internet presence.

Not really, there are forums out there dedicated entirely to spambots.

[Greendogo]

Not really, there are forums out there dedicated entirely to spambots.

I wonder what they talk about?

[sirherrbatka]

lgro deleted it already.

Writing raports in this thread is not helping. Stop it now.

[psi29a]

In a forum I admin, to help stem the tide of spam bots, we created a few 'custom' questions/answers that the user must answer before they can register.

In this case, we could ask something Morrowind specific and something generic.

"Are you human?" - default "No", "Maybe", "Yes"

"What company released Morrowind?" - default "Bioware", "Microsoft", "Bethesda"

Giving three possible answers helps muddy the waters a bit.

Failing 3 times to answer the questions put a temp ban on their IP for a 30 minutes. "Retry in 30 minutes please."

[natirips]

As I recently suggested (and probably got ignored for the time being because that server owner mostly comes on weekends) on another forum that is being spammed by bots, you could do it as a mini IQ test (requiring IQ>=20 && very minimal common sense).

Something like:

"Using the following table, what would be the color of the Sun?"

color_table.jpg

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I imagine captcha bots would enter "From To", and not the right answer.

[sirherrbatka]

"Using the following table, what would be the color of the Sun?"

Let me ask this philosophical question.

WTF?

Honestly I don't think that we need any solution right now but maybe we may need son.

[xXShaddowTXx]

As I recently suggested (and probably got ignored for the time being because that server owner mostly comes on weekends) on another forum that is being spammed by bots, you could do it as a mini IQ test (requiring IQ>=20 && very minimal common sense).

Something like:

"Using the following table, what would be the color of the Sun?"

color_table.jpg

I imagine captcha bots would enter "From To", and not the right answer.

Actually that may be easy because you can just have the bot look for a specified Hexadecimal color and Click on it. Just an assumption.

More like a picture of a girl holding a basketball or someone jumping and asking what is this person doing, or what is this person holding?

[Ace (SWE)]

Why not just have a simple "What is this project called?" question?

Spambots aren't good at answering questions.

[scrawl]

yeah, let's have something simple like that so that users are not annoyed.

alternative question: What is the name of the game we are recreating?