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Antrax · ESL Student

Made more changes. Let's see how these work.
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After years of disappointment with get rich quick schemes, I know I'm gonna get rich with this scheme. And quick!

Samadhi · +1

No registrations for some time, and I had no problem registering a new name just now. Seems like a good sign.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

Antrax · ESL Student

Yeah, I did some reading and got some ideas that I thought were really good.
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After years of disappointment with get rich quick schemes, I know I'm gonna get rich with this scheme. And quick!

Samadhi · +1

Meh. The spammers probably read the same stuff. Melancholy

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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

Antrax · ESL Student

This is something of an NP problem, though. If they know the details of what I did, circumventing it is easy. As it stands, it seems difficult to me.
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After years of disappointment with get rich quick schemes, I know I'm gonna get rich with this scheme. And quick!

Samadhi · +1

We have two cases.
Case 1: There are automated programs that can overcome what Antrax has put up as countermeasures.
Case 2: There are losers who spend their time spreading spam on various websites.

I doubt case 2 is true.
I don't know how to help on case 1 (programming wise).

Which leads to suggesting other ways to block spam bots.

I think one prior suggestion is perhaps the way to go. Something along the lines of a reference to one of the archived puzzles.

Or something easier, but that a bot never would figure out.

Perhaps a field that asks for the product of two random integers?
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

Antrax · ESL Student

I'm beginning to think case 2 is the thing. I'd expect a lot more registrations had it been automated.
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After years of disappointment with get rich quick schemes, I know I'm gonna get rich with this scheme. And quick!

Samadhi · +1

We'll know for sure in a week. If it's bots, then the few now will spread.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

CrystyB · Misunderstood Guy

There are logs of all the failed attempts, right? Wink

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

It could be a cross between the two- an automated bot finds sites and starts the process. On the visual confirmation it prompts a human (not necessarily in the horny teen setup Antax has). Also, with the automatic fill in many browsers have, it wouldn't take long to fill out 1000s of new users.

Dread Pirate Westley · Daedalian Member

Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam, and spam.

Chuck · Daedalian Member

And a side order of Spam.

Lepton · 1:41+ Arse Scratcher

Post by "lia1984", originally posted in OT. Locked and clear by Courk, I moved it to Forum Moderators.

Courk · Daedalian Member

I read the spam suggestion thread, then saw that post and thought "We don't have a spam forum yet, so I can't move it anywhere." Sorry, Lept, I aparently didn't process your post. Felicitous

Lepton* · Guest

Oh, no worries. The main reason I did it was to see if anyone would complain. Felicitous

Samadhi · +1

arandomguy's IP changed so he was able to post. He's been re-banned.

Beartalon · 'Party line' kind of guy

Thank you.

Ctorj · Did I spell that right?

Courk · Daedalian Member

"Interests: happy people"

For some reason, that cracks me up.

Jack_Ian · Big Endian

I think it means they're gay Wink

Samadhi · +1

It should be changed to "Making crappy furniture."

Neo · Daedalian Member

Would this be possible?
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The Ragin' South Asian · Head Poncho

Yeah, make so the bots only see 404s

Samadhi · +1

Or we could do:
Pick three that have nothing to do with paladin

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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

Antrax · ESL Student

That's (Paladin/kittens) needlessly elaborate. If we're up against a bot, requiring even a basic level of "understanding" would defeat it, and if we're up against humans then we're screwed anyway. As previously suggested, even a simple math exercise should be enough to throw a bot off, and should be quite easy to code.
Passover starts in a a couple of days, I'll try to find time to incorporate this.
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After years of disappointment with get rich quick schemes, I know I'm gonna get rich with this scheme. And quick!

Samadhi · +1

(mine was a joke) *nudge*

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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

Samadhi · +1

*@mail.ru is now banned.
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Samadhi · +1

Interesting. Many of the new spambots have @cashette.com for their email address. I checked cashette.com and it appears to be a legitimate site intended to deter spam.

I'm going to research this more, perhaps it's an attempt at defamation or something. Or maybe it's a scam site.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

Samadhi · +1

After reading this article I'm going to ban the email addresses. If there's any problems, let me know.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

Samadhi · +1

*.ru banned as well for email.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

Samadhi · +1

Nevermind, the system doesn't support that. Have at thee ruskies!
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

Samadhi · +1

Banning *email.com

Lepton* · Guest

That might be a bit extreme... There are a number of free email services that are @*email.com. I originally registered with a @startrekemail.com address, for example.

Samadhi · +1

Sorry for the confusion, it's actually *@email.com, the syntax of the banning system only allows the * before the @
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

Jack_Ian · Big Endian

This seems like spam to me.
Assumes HTML is allowed.
Appears to be written by a non-native speaker.

Jack_Ian · Big Endian

New User: download free mp3
Likely Spammer applies here I would think.

Samadhi · +1

Yeah, there's quite a few like that. It's odd that they can get beyond our registration page, but can't manage to post.

Assuming they get no benefit from merely registering. At least I can't see how they would.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.