Comments on: Methods of Spam Prevention on Forums http://www.lostaddress.org/2007/11/25/methods-of-spam-prevention-on-forums/ making our stupidity help you Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:57:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: hari http://www.lostaddress.org/2007/11/25/methods-of-spam-prevention-on-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-7707 hari Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:17:52 +0000 http://www.lostaddress.org/index.php/2007/11/25/methods-of-spam-prevention-of-forums/#comment-7707 Ray, the main reason we now have so few spammers even signing up these days is because I've actually placed some custom profile fields at sign up which has the same effect as captcha for preventing spammers since those fields are required and most bots would not know the field name to "fill up" before submitting the form. And the one or two spammers who do manage to sign up cannot post a link till a couple of posts either, so the whole purpose is defeated. Avatars and sigs are available only after 10 posts ;) Ray, the main reason we now have so few spammers even signing up these days is because I’ve actually placed some custom profile fields at sign up which has the same effect as captcha for preventing spammers since those fields are required and most bots would not know the field name to “fill up” before submitting the form.

And the one or two spammers who do manage to sign up cannot post a link till a couple of posts either, so the whole purpose is defeated. Avatars and sigs are available only after 10 posts ;)

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