Opa Deluca 10 Posted May 20, 2019 This is getting annoying now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dollie 676 Posted May 20, 2019 Spam Bots work by crawling and looking for signatures of known software. Usually this is a snippet of text like a copyright or a meta tag but it could be any consistent identifier. This usually applies to blog and forum software. It is a constant back and forth between Captcha/ReCaptcha/use of a field that requires the user to answer a question and the bots "learning" them. Rinse and repeat. Making security in regards to these bots as tight as possible tends to lead to genuine users encountering difficulty or frustration in signing up to our Forums so we look to walk a fine line between catching the bots and user experience. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vorxius 249 Posted May 20, 2019 Even I can't read the text sometimes... I'm English, like to think that my grip on English is quite adequate.. However, when it comes to captcha.. trying to read that crap sometimes i end up like: ....fail 3 times in a row, and just hit audio. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Derfel 11 Posted May 21, 2019 whilst i support the thin line between overbearing security and spam blocking , general now has 15 pages of chinese spam in it...perhaps its time for the hard slapdown? i dont mind signing in every time if it stops these damn spambots Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vorxius 249 Posted May 21, 2019 What, you don't want a counterfeit uk diploma certificate? Bah. You can apparently get a fake one, a fake fake one, or even a fake fake fake one! Not entirely sure on the difference between a fake one, and a fake fake fake one, but supposedly they are different.. maybe one is a journeyman one, and the other a legendary perhaps? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Puppies4ever 856 Posted May 21, 2019 Its nearly every day now...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kidori 143 Posted May 23, 2019 On 5/20/2019 at 6:12 AM, Dollie said: Spam Bots work by crawling and looking for signatures of known software. Usually this is a snippet of text like a copyright or a meta tag but it could be any consistent identifier. This usually applies to blog and forum software. It is a constant back and forth between Captcha/ReCaptcha/use of a field that requires the user to answer a question and the bots "learning" them. Rinse and repeat. Making security in regards to these bots as tight as possible tends to lead to genuine users encountering difficulty or frustration in signing up to our Forums so we look to walk a fine line between catching the bots and user experience. The Cloudflare solution that was tried a while ago didn't work out real well. However, I feel that having one of those check boxes saying I am not a robot is pretty unintrusive, and if it's only required when starting a new topic I think most people could live with that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kampfer91 58 Posted May 23, 2019 Well how about clicking a moving picture ? Jigsaw but the piece moving slowly . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
saluto 0 Posted May 24, 2019 I guess its kinda a zombie attack. Weird is the last words with university at the end. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites