Site: Bots, social login and captcha issues

[Chris G]

Well looks like it worked! No more spam since I blocked India…

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[Mauro]

Don’t hate me, but as the problem has just resurfaced and blocking one of the biggest countries on Earth is not a real solution (not to say that spammer usually use IP masquerading, so maybe they were not even from India), I still feel the need to point at your antispam filters and settings.

In short:

1. Captchas that block just the registration process are nearly useless, as registration itself is a process that can be easy handled by a human being. One registration is cheap on the human side, and then you launch a network of bots to do what a human can’t do: post hundreds or thousands of messages at one. If you want to Captcha, do it when submitting a new post.
2. I took some of the messages posted today on the forum (I didn’t think to do it the previous time) and checked them with various spam filters: they are all recognised as spam. I don’t have an Akismet at hand to test and I didn’t use bbpress back in time, but if you had everything setup correctly everyone of those messages would have been passed through Akismet, recognised as spam, put into spam folder, and never ever have a chance to appear on the forum.

 

Again, don’t hate me. I’m just trying to be useful, I like the site 🙂

[Chris G]

Thanks. Not sure why Akismet isn’t stopping it.

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