Make signup harder.

1. 2017-04-27 at 6:58 AM UTC

   #21
   

   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   honestly not much you can do to stop it. bots will queue captchas for humans to solve before progressing; it'd slow down the creation of fake accounts but not by much - historically the spam we get here comes from a single account too; it's not 100 freshly registered accounts each posting new threads simultaneously.
2. 2017-04-27 at 7 AM UTC

   #22
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   Originally posted by RisiR It is used for registration. The bots are smart as fuck.
   
   Make the captcha a sploo pussle and when the user doesn't even attempt it and says "fuck that shit" they get logged in.

   
   Actually for a long time it was a surprisingly effective spam prevention strategy to include a field in forms that was visually hidden from users so if the form was submitted with a value for that field it was a pretty good sign the submitter was a bot. But visibility checks are pretty common these days so it can really only be used in tandem with other approaches.
3. 2017-04-27 at 7:21 AM UTC

   #23
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by Lanny Actually for a long time it was a surprisingly effective spam prevention strategy to include a field in forms that was visually hidden from users so if the form was submitted with a value for that field it was a pretty good sign the submitter was a bot. But visibility checks are pretty common these days so it can really only be used in tandem with other approaches.

   
   Just out of curiousity, how did the "oranges" check on Zoklet work, and was it effective?
4. 2017-04-27 at 7:26 AM UTC

   #24
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   Originally posted by Captain Falcon Just out of curiousity, how did the "oranges" check on Zoklet work, and was it effective?

   
   It was kind of an interesting approach. It wasn't aimed at stopping a dedicated spammer that had decided to target the site, it's probably the easiest anti-spam measure to circumvent for someone who's like "ok, I want to spam up on zoklet.net", you literally just have to hardcode oranges into the field. The idea was to restrict "hit and run" spammers, like bots that will crawl looking for things that look like forums (pervasive forum software like vB is particularly easy to target). It would take a lot of logic to try and identify what part of the form required human interaction and ship it to captcha solving sweatshops programmatically, it wasn't a bad strategy in that regard.
5. 2017-04-27 at 8:25 AM UTC

   #25
   

   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]

   Originally posted by aldra …it's not 100 freshly registered accounts each posting new threads simultaneously.

   
   Not yet, anyways.
6. 2017-04-27 at 11:49 AM UTC

   #26
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by Captain Falcon You can just call him for me and check on his welfare, you watermelon looking nigger.

   
   He's gay tho