Spammers

juaxix · February 20, 2012, 6:20am

I think it is a good time to add captcha in the sign up form…
Users like:
http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/Talk/profile/667/vandarreop
are spam bots…check out the recent activity of the web:
http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/Talk/activity

sim · February 20, 2012, 6:45am

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, @Juaxix. Unfortunately there is a captcha required to log-in. I could add an approval process.

Andrew_Stacey · February 20, 2012, 6:47am

I don’t know if there’s an addon for Vanilla 2 for this, but on Vanilla 1 there was an addon which added an email verification step. This helps keeps them at bay.

sim · February 20, 2012, 7:04am

I’ve changed the sign-up process to require admin approval. Anyone who signs up will get approved unless they’re a spammer.

Edit: Also deleted all the spam bot accounts. So many of them.

Zoyt · February 20, 2012, 9:46am

I noticed that too… It was strange… What about the Cinderella movies and that bot’s children?

juaxix · February 22, 2012, 5:32pm

The problem persists…
http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/Talk/profile/676/tararrsalah
just add a simple question like “how much is 1 + 2?” or “which color is the sky?”, the headache for all spam bot programmer

sim · February 22, 2012, 5:58pm

@juaxix there is a captcha, but unfortunately it seems to do nothing. I’ll look into a system like you describe.

Zoyt · February 22, 2012, 6:23pm

Too bad they don’t have an add-on that does that… Oh well. But this shows how famous Codea has gotten… We have spammers. (There’s a silver lining to every cloud). But the spammer part isn’t good.

juaxix · February 22, 2012, 6:31pm

Almost every (wordpress) blog has daily attacks from spammers, they get here and there by using regular expression and search engines, because of the good SEO of this CMS, not the famous level…