Well, fancy meeting you here.
by schwim on Nov.26, 2008, under Miscellaneous
I’d just like to take this moment to say hello to all the members of the FedoraForum batcave, an elite shock-troop of superheros, tasked to save the world from spam and political discussion. While I’m not sure what piqued your collective interest, I can’t help but welcome you all. Surely you can’t still be talking about something I did on the forum 
PS: How do you like your new ISP, Bob?
November 27th, 2008 on 9:38 pm
Happy Turkey Day, Turkey! Remember we save the world from talking about BOTH Politics and Religion, thereby saving Zealots and Bushes alike from persecution. Somebody’s gotta save the idiots, right?
Well, we’ve had a month of the new vBulletin and we’ve happily doubled our spam attacks after the ‘upgrades’. So our Eastern buddies seem to like it just fine. It fits in well with Fedora though; every version seems to break more than the one before it. It’s Progress!
November 27th, 2008 on 10:58 pm
Sure, at least before you were using an anti-spam feature that was antiquated and out of fashion. Now you’re using the same captcha that everyone else using a Vb licensed forum is.
The solution is so simple and foolproof that I can almost guarantee that it won’t be implemented. Create your own CAPTCHA. Even the most simple of tests(cat or human?) work better than what comes packaged with the forum. I’ve completely stopped spam registrations on sites by creating very simple captchas. The scripts that bots used are written to handle the common tests. They use the 20/80 rule to write them and if the bot comes across a form it doesn’t have the data for, it moves on. Spammers sure as hell aren’t going to spend time cracking a captcha for a single site. There’s no money in that.
It is guaranteed to stop all registrations generated by bots. You’ll still get the human registrations, but those are few and far between.
Well, if they can’t distinguish the difference between a cat and a human, you may even stop those
thanks,
json
November 28th, 2008 on 7:18 am
Hmmm. Good try, schwim, but that’s not much for any cats trying to join the forum, now is it? I, for one, decry this anti-cat stance …
November 28th, 2008 on 10:53 am
Hey, I’m pro-cat! I just use pictures for my captcha and usually ask them if it’s a human or a cat
I usually grab my cat pics from the lolcat stuff and my people pics from from a Google image search of “funny moron”.
I never come up empty handed.