by allicorn » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:17 pm
Yeh, its a good idea Bere, I've been considering that type of thing, and it might be worth a go. I am a little hesitant to add anything to the registration process that might make real potential members have to jump through extra hoops to sign up.
The ideal situation would be one that means
nothing is different at all if you really are a genuine user signing up or posting. A solution that
only pounces on spammers would be best.
Gotta also remember that not all of the spammers are actually bots, many are actually poor fools getting paid a few cents per post to run around the internet dropping spam on people's forums. If we make the question/answer easy, then it won't put off the spammers - if we make it too hard, we risk making life difficult for potential members.
Have some other ideas that I'm experimenting with at the mo, I won't post 'em here since we don't want to tell the spammers how it all works eh?
BTW, I did ask the spam-kill-bot what he thought, and he just said "
Destroy All Humans! Rawr!"... so no help there
Alli
Yeh, its a good idea Bere, I've been considering that type of thing, and it might be worth a go. I am a little hesitant to add anything to the registration process that might make real potential members have to jump through extra hoops to sign up.
The ideal situation would be one that means [i]nothing[/i] is different at all if you really are a genuine user signing up or posting. A solution that [i]only[/i] pounces on spammers would be best.
Gotta also remember that not all of the spammers are actually bots, many are actually poor fools getting paid a few cents per post to run around the internet dropping spam on people's forums. If we make the question/answer easy, then it won't put off the spammers - if we make it too hard, we risk making life difficult for potential members.
Have some other ideas that I'm experimenting with at the mo, I won't post 'em here since we don't want to tell the spammers how it all works eh?
BTW, I did ask the spam-kill-bot what he thought, and he just said "[b]Destroy All Humans! Rawr![/b]"... so no help there ;-)
Alli