From what i have seen there seems to be a shortage of people here that can take care of deleting these spam posts. the more people you have in different regions the better it will work.Vasiliy wrote:People wont be deleting spam all time, we are humans, they are machines. DC-Talk always suffered of spam, just take a look at archive:I think the admin need to consider on selecting a few trusted members for a anti spambot squad to delete spam posts
http://web.archive.org/web/200805020347 ... m.php?f=28 and it's still the same situation here. http://dreamcast-talk definitely needs strong combined spam protection. As far as i know all captchas can bypassed, there is installed Q&A protection now but it's bypassed as you can see by yourself, ip banning is useless...
captchas can work if new methods are rotated in constantly. if you keep using the same old method it will get leaned and bypassed easily. the word and letter & number captchas are the old way of doing it and are not effective. there needs to be a captcha that uses other methods then the ones we currently see on most sites (youtube comment limit captcha as a prime example). They worked great at first but their constant use made it to where algorithms was made to defeat these type of captchas.
Use this as a example.
a captcha that uses a combination of a word, letter, numeral, shape, color, simple outlines of pictures to where you have to type out the shape, color, picture outline (as say of a outline of a bird, car, tree or other outline). They keep using the same old method for captchas with slightly a change to them, and its kind of like trying to polish a turd, in the end its still a turd. a new method of captcha is severely needed.
Yeah there is a Q&A for the registration here but it is very weak, its not as strong as the Q&A method of using the TOS word search or a history (and so forth) question.
There is different forms of banning, IP banning is the easiest to bypass.
Script detection is a good way to stop the registration process, if detected you get sent to a blank page. a false registration page hidden from normal users but seen from the bot is another good method because they will fill this form out and when its filled out you will know it was a bot, or a false question that the normal user cant see.
banning by email used for registration is one method of banning, at first it wont work too well until you build up a list of used emails of blacklisted email addresses. and when one gets through just add that email to the list.
The other method of spam protection (probably best right now) that is known to work is one where the admin has to approve the account. once approved the user receives a email to follow a link to enable the account. some sort of email use on the registering user needs to be done to see that the email is real.
with all of the above combined there should be ample protection against spambots. but still wont protect against the human element.
