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Top Nurse · #80 10-26-2006, 11:23 PM

This hack kicks ass!

We ditched the captcha and went all the way with this product. Few outside our organization would be able to come up with the right answers and I can guarantee no bot will ever make it. :laugh:

Edit: Besides asking a straightforward question you can also set up fill in the blank questions. If you utilize sayings that are specific to your intended audience then you pretty much eliminate all the bots.

For example:

Fill in the blank "Jails, Institutions, and ______"
Fill in the blank "Nuclear _______ is a by-product of splitting atoms."

We made up a whole bunch of these types of questions and with the random display we can just about forget about bot spammers.

By the way, where is the Mod of the Month link! This hack gets my vote.

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