The spam bots have learned to solve simple mathematical captchas like 1*2+3*4/6-5.
I suggest using ReCaptcha instead, as it's stronger and harder to recognize by algorithms.
Edited by SopaXorzTaker, 22 August 2016 - 09:17 AM.
Posted 22 August 2016 - 09:16 AM
The spam bots have learned to solve simple mathematical captchas like 1*2+3*4/6-5.
I suggest using ReCaptcha instead, as it's stronger and harder to recognize by algorithms.
Edited by SopaXorzTaker, 22 August 2016 - 09:17 AM.
Posted 22 August 2016 - 09:24 PM
There is already a reCaptcha but the spammers are either using humans to solve them or AI. Usually I just need to change the questions a little bit and the spammers stop getting in for a few months until they update their bots...
Posted 28 August 2016 - 06:49 AM
Yeah, nowadays many spammers are registered manually. Probably by people from third-world countries being paid $30 per day to do it.
Also I tried reCaptcha in the past and removed it from my site, because when reCaptcha servers were down or slow, it prevented the rest of the registration page from loading. I heard they were bought by Google a few years ago, though, so maybe that improved? But yeah, that won't stop manually registered spam accounts from going in.
Something I found effective, though, is to disallow 0-post members from posting web links. They just have to edit the link in after they made the post, but that might be annoying to some new members I guess.
Posted 14 May 2018 - 03:59 PM
> Probably by people from third-world countries being paid $30 per day to do it.
You may have added an extra zero there cause that's an insanely good salary for the third world. https://en.wikipedia...by_average_wage
BTW we're getting spamed here if you haven't noticed it: http://community.cas.../statuses/all/
Edited by Tritonio, 14 May 2018 - 04:19 PM.
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