RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
November 3, 2015 at 4:54 pm
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2015 at 4:54 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
On all the forums that I've run the only thing that stops the automated spam bots is to have questions that need human intelligence to answer.
They can be very simple questions like
1) Using one word, what is two plus two?
2) What is the last letter of the previous answer?
etc
You do need to change them occasionally because a human will come along and answer them and then you get lots of bots coming through. And you also need to make sure that you don't set an incorrect answer. Getting someone to double check this will stop this from happening though.
With the SMF software this is a mod that you can install quite easily. I don't know what's available for other forum software though.
They can be very simple questions like
1) Using one word, what is two plus two?
2) What is the last letter of the previous answer?
etc
You do need to change them occasionally because a human will come along and answer them and then you get lots of bots coming through. And you also need to make sure that you don't set an incorrect answer. Getting someone to double check this will stop this from happening though.
With the SMF software this is a mod that you can install quite easily. I don't know what's available for other forum software though.