Spam out of control: Q&A ineffective

[Panzer Max]

Originally Posted by vijayninel

Even I used to think that all spam is posted by bots and was baffled as to how they can answer the complex questions I was framing. The only explanation that I could come up with was that some human was opening the door for bots to post spam. But I was wrong even there.

As I devloped more and more complex countermeasures to combat spam, I could see them resisting and trying to counter may antispam measures .. live. I literally had live battles with them. I even traced to where most of the human spammers come from - China, India and Nigeria.

In any case I finally won. I now know how to completely defeat all types of spam and despite all the efforts of all the spammers, they havent been able to post a single spam post on my forums for years. And no .. I dont moderate registrations or even ask new members to solve a captcha.

I hope to write a article on my experiences sometime.

Wonderful You know, this forum is where we help each other with things like this.

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Originally Posted by Panzer Max

Hey Andy, yeah, your post is famous, it's where I began my anti-spam crusade. I used to use the Q&A ideas from it, but I have made it harder, as you can see in my original post. I have created a Custom profile field, I will make it "required during registration", very good idea, thanks.

Well, that didn't work, even the spammers know an answer to the custom profile.