Comments on: Thwarting the Spam bots http://www.thecorsairjournal.com/2009/09/11/thwarting-the-spam-bots/ All the Corsair that's fit to print. Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:53:31 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: corsair http://www.thecorsairjournal.com/2009/09/11/thwarting-the-spam-bots/comment-page-1/#comment-34 corsair Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:04:50 +0000 http://www.thecorsairjournal.com/?p=124#comment-34 @Spring: Tee hee! That's cute! @Spring: Tee hee! That’s cute!

]]> By: Spring http://www.thecorsairjournal.com/2009/09/11/thwarting-the-spam-bots/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Spring Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:34:19 +0000 http://www.thecorsairjournal.com/?p=124#comment-33 Capcha also being a way to find out if your LDR lover is for reals: http://xkcd.com/632/ Capcha also being a way to find out if your LDR lover is for reals:

http://xkcd.com/632/

]]> By: spc476 http://www.thecorsairjournal.com/2009/09/11/thwarting-the-spam-bots/comment-page-1/#comment-32 spc476 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:23:15 +0000 http://www.thecorsairjournal.com/?p=124#comment-32 Oh neat! If you do register, you don't need to type in the CAPTCHA. Now, the reason for the blog spam is not to get people interested in a product and buy from a link placed in some random blog, but to increase the Google Page Rank of the target website by linking to it from all over the place. And by increasing the Page Rank, that site rises in the results page. But I've had to deal with spammers on another site of mine, http://www.hhgproject.org/ on the contact page. Not only did I have to add a CAPTCHA, but a hidden field that shouldn't be changed at all, in order to cut down on the spam. At first, I didn't have comments because I didn't know how to address (litterally, as in URL) comments. Then there's the whole flat vs. threaded controversy. I took so long in thinking about it that comment spam became a problem, and that (along with having to write a bunch of code to filter the comments to prevent cross site scripting attacks) pretty much killed any idea of comments on my site. Oh neat! If you do register, you don’t need to type in the CAPTCHA.

Now, the reason for the blog spam is not to get people interested in a product and buy from a link placed in some random blog, but to increase the Google Page Rank of the target website by linking to it from all over the place. And by increasing the Page Rank, that site rises in the results page.

But I’ve had to deal with spammers on another site of mine, http://www.hhgproject.org/ on the contact page. Not only did I have to add a CAPTCHA, but a hidden field that shouldn’t be changed at all, in order to cut down on the spam.

At first, I didn’t have comments because I didn’t know how to address (litterally, as in URL) comments. Then there’s the whole flat vs. threaded controversy. I took so long in thinking about it that comment spam became a problem, and that (along with having to write a bunch of code to filter the comments to prevent cross site scripting attacks) pretty much killed any idea of comments on my site.

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