hi, I am a bot. How do I get prevented from spamming on forums -.-

Having captcha questions seems to stop most spam sign-ups. E.g. "What colour is the sky?" and similar questions. It's also a lot more accessible than the standard captcha for people that use screen readers. :)
 
daz said:
Having captcha questions seems to stop most spam sign-ups. E.g. "What colour is the sky?" and similar questions. It's also a lot more accessible than the standard captcha for people that use screen readers. :)
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+1

Much much more accessible to use a question like "2+2=" or "is ice hot or cold" than captcha. Captcha is horrible for screen readers to use, well horrible = impossible as they can't read the letters/numbers and the audio version is distorted so badly that its hard for even humans to hear!
 
tsinc80697 said:
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Much much more accessible to use a question like "2+2=" or "is ice hot or cold" than captcha. Captcha is horrible for screen readers to use, well horrible = impossible as they can't read the letters/numbers and the audio version is distorted so badly that its hard for even humans to hear!
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ReCaptcha is pretty good, the text is readable and the audio version is a snippet from an old radio program and not garbled in any way.
 
Some of the best captcha's I've seen have an image with say 9 'things' on them, and ask a question like "How many kittens are there?" :)
 
paradigm said:
Manually dispatched confirmation emails, captchas, not allowing "free" email accounts, etc...
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The first and the last suggestions here help a great deal.

Captcha's are great, but can give certain users issues unless they're done well.
 
I cannot stand the Vbulletin captcha, it's so difficult to read and involves too much effort. You have to re-do it every time you want to search too :\. Those human questions are the best.
 
I've put NoSpam! onto a couple of vBulletin forums and that stopped automated spam immediately.

There's a few human spammers that still get through, but it's few and far between.
 
Here is my current list of banned domains:

Code: 
.info
.biz
.ua
.tv
.ru
.pl
.ws
pozitifff.com
atlaskit.com
stylebrand.com
ramireschat.com
metaping.com
mail15.com
fromru.com
gawab.com
atlantmail.com
mail.saratov.com
bluebottle.com
gmx.com
moviedownloadslibrary.com
meta.ua
izmail.net
gmail.com
gmx.us
spambox.us
onlinewomenhealth.us
yahoo.co.uk
pd-loan.com
meltmail.com
gbvip.com
the-s-box-land.com
libertyreservebank.com
inmail24.com
googlemail.com
27up.com
roliki.cc
lvivs.com
Though I'm thinking about taking gmail out, but I haven't heard any complaints. I don't think OcUK permits it, either (at least they didn't during the last Nuke).
 
Raist said:
Here is my current list of banned domains:

Though I'm thinking about taking gmail out, but I haven't heard any complaints. I don't think OcUK permits it, either (at least they didn't during the last Nuke).
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If you block gmail.com, might as well block googlemail.com. If I register either, the email ends up in the same inbox for me.

Although to be honest, never seen a spambot with gmail.com

Edit: Doh, just noticed googlemail.com at the bottom. Ignore me :p
 
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