anty bot system

Tycoon · Post by **Tycoon** » 22.05.2007, 14:35

warship45 wrote:i say agin that even if you use a pic the bot can check it you would have to have unlimited pic's for it to work or the bot would be able to check them and after about 42 hours of looking for them would have all of the pics. that would not work, that is the same as having codes but even easyer for bots to get past because it is not having to checks lots of diffrent bitmaps.

yes, he is right... the experience of the German versions having a security code show this...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 22.05.2007, 19:28

how about this

is there a country named egypte answer box

differente question

They would have to be easy but not to easy.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 23.05.2007, 06:36

This is stupid, even a normal user cannot 100% get the right answer.

New players will be frustrated and turn away.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 23.05.2007, 07:56

lol i dont think any of the above are suitable..

In my experience bots that come onto forum slike these are relatively simple ones.. sole intention just to send spam to advertise something, these are not complex things as there is not enough gain for the programmer..

On other forums the bots have been stopped by adding a tick box on signup that reads:

'Are you human?' (yes, u need to answer this, its to stop the bots)

Then there is a check box for yes and one for no. The defualt is set to 'NO' so the user has to manually select 'YES' to proceed with registration. Of course if regsitration is attempted without sleceting yes a error emssage will occur and tell the user to fully complete the form.

Its simple, easy to implement, its not confusing, and it works!

Other methods incldue sending an email to the register account and asking them to click the link in the conformation email, altho this requires a little more work than my previous suggestion, it does work.

Id just like to say that having been on 3 forums similar in size and type as this one who have all had bots, the first method was successful in preventing the bots.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 23.05.2007, 11:13

that would work. But make it ovious that you need to check the right box but nothing a bot can read

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 23.05.2007, 12:51

ganman wrote:that would work. But make it ovious that you need to check the right box but nothing a bot can read

dude the bots arnt that celeverl, just have the exact writing I quoted ^^^ and it will work!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 23.05.2007, 15:30

Or ask them this:

Which would you rather have

300W of electricity
A piece of apple pie

If they check the first one, it's a robot!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 23.05.2007, 21:11

nah i can get mixed up that one uses jakes

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 03.06.2007, 15:16

( i know double post, so shot me)

I bringing back this thread cause bots are gettng worse.