membership issues

 

1. I think you’d be OK with captchas.  As long as they are somewhat legible.

   Posted by Vilmar       01/04/2010  at  10:38 AM  



2. Oh, no.  I am a real person.
   Oh, no.  I am a real person.
   Oh, no.  I am a real person.
   Oh, no.  I am a real person.
   Oh, no.  I am a real person.
   Oh, no.  I am a real person.
   Oh, no.  I am a real person.
   Oh, no.  I am a real person.

   In point of fact, I’ve been labelled an Adam Henry in casual conversation more than once.  But so far, I have no product or service to sell; other than I’m good at assessing and solving problems of various sorts.  (Which is not to say anyone pays attention to me.)

   Good luck, Drew.  I’m on your side.

   Posted by Archie       01/04/2010  at  11:13 AM  



3. Given that the deleted user had a total of 2 comments here, and both of them were spam comments to recent posts, you made exactly the right choice.  I’m surprised it’s the first time you’ve had to remove a spambot that got through the automated registration process.

   Vilmar’s idea is a pretty darned good one if applied to membership and not every comment members here need to make.  It might help cut down on bogus membership applications considerably!

   Another idea for preventing spam in the comments is for the system to auto moderate/hide the first two comments from a user until checked by an admin and given the thumbs up by them (and once that’s done the post becomes visible to all).  Once a user has more than two cleared posts to their record, the system assumes they’re good-to-go, and lets them post freely.  Additionally, another threshold stops vigorous bots from bugging the admin: Any more than three uncleared posts, and further postings by that user are blocked.

   I’m not sure if you have such a system available to you, or could write it into the software you have… Just wanted to throw some ideas out there for you.

   Anyway, off to start earning my first paycheck of 2010…

   Posted by Argentium G. Tiger       01/04/2010  at  11:18 AM  



4. I hate spam with a passion.  I run a blog that I put a lot of tech tips on (easy to search when I am out and about) and it collects about 100 spam comments per day.  Since I am the only one that uses it I just have it auto delete them.  That won’t work here though.

   Posted by John C       01/04/2010  at  04:05 PM  



5. I used to use the Capchas on the forum site I run, but they usually read like one of those spin art thingies they used to have way back when, or feature pure drivel instead of words. If that was the first one you have seen, don’t worry too much.
   
   As for Gmail.. I use it almost exclusively, as do a few of my friends. It’s more convenient than my ISP which has so much advertising it takes 5 minutes to load on 16Mb DSL. I have more than a few acquaintances who use public mail servers as their primary mail for about the same reason, I mean, have you seen ComCrap’s main portal?

   Just a thought..
   Bill

   Posted by Doctor DETH       01/05/2010  at  05:50 AM  

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